The Opéra National du Capitole has announced its 2026-27 season.

Opera

Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Dvorak’s “Rusalka” in a production by Stefano Poda. The cast includes Ruzan Mantashyan, Alexander Roslavets, Pavol Breslik, Ricarda Merbeth, and Agnieszka Rehlis.

Performance Dates: Sept. 22-Oct. 4, 2026 

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Stéphane Fuget conducts Charpentier’s “Médée” in concert with Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Petr Nekoranec, Juliette Mey, Frédéric Caton, Étienne Bazola, Camille Poul, and Claire Lefilliâtre.

Performance Date: Sept. 26, 2026 

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Nikolai Schukoff headlines Britten’s “Peter Grimes” with Yolanda Auyanet, Sarah Laulan, Luis Cansino, Marie Gautrot, and Iurii Samoilov.

Frank Beermann conducts the production by David Alden. 

Performance Dates: Nov. 20-29, 2026

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Hervé Niquet conducts Purcell’s “King Arthur” in concert with Olivia Dora, Floriane Hasler, Cyril Auvity, Romain Dayez, and Andreas Wolf.

Performance Date: Nov. 25, 2026

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Airam Hernández headlines Wagner’s “Lohengrin” with Chiara Isotton, Tommi Hakala, Sophie Koch, Jean Teitgen, and Jérôme Boutillier. Michele Spotti conducts the production by Michel Fau.

Performance Dates: Jan. 28-Feb. 7, 2027

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Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia” will star Vincenzo Taormina, Hugo Laporte, Juliette Mey, Floriane Hasler, Dave Monaco, Juan Sancho, Giulio Mastrototaro, Riccardo Novaro, Adolfo Corrado, and Sulkhan Jaiani. Alfonso Todisco conducts the production by Josef Ernst Köpplinger.

Performance Dates: Feb. 28-March 11, 2027

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Victorien Vanoosten conducts Chausson “Le Roi Arthus” in a new production by Aurélien Bory. Stéphane Degout, Catherine Hunold, Bror Magnus Tødenes, and Jean-François Lapointe star.

Performance Dates: April 23-May 2, 2027

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Emiliano Gonzalez Toro conducts Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” in a production by Mathilde Étienne. Adèle Charvet, Maximiliano Danta, Victoire Bunel, William Shelton, Adrien Mathonat, Juan Sancho, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Marie Perbost, Thaïs Raï-Westphal, and Éléonore Pancrazi.

Performance Dates: May 19-26, 2027

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Dayner Tafur-Díaz conducts Cherubini’s “Medea” with Yannis Kokkos conducting. Karine Deshayes leads the production with Roberto Alagna, Sulkhan Jaiani, Florie Valiquette, and Rose Naggar-Tremblay.

Performance Dates: June 18-27, 2027

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Recital 

Joseph Calleja and Sarah Tysman open the recital series with works by Dvořák, Puccini, Verdi, Tosti, and Tchaikovsky

Performance Date: Nov. 15, 2026

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Asmik Grigorian sings scenes from “Rusalka,” “Don Carlo,” “Macbeth,” “Otello,” “Madama Butterfly,” “Manon Lescaut,” “Turandot,” and “Salomé” with Lukas Geniušas and Petras Geniušas at the piano.

Performance Date: Jan. 25, 2027

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Vincenzo Costanzo joins Toto Toralbo, Nunzio Veneruso, Dario Mennella, Nino Conte and the Chœur de l’Opéra national du Capitole for a Christmas concert.

Performance Dates: Dec. 5 & 6, 2026

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Christophe Rousset conducts music by Pergolesi, Leo, and Battista Ferrandini. Irina Sherazadishvili and Key’mon W. Murrah join Les Talens Lyriques.

Performance Date: Jan. 29, 2027

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Nadine Sierra joins Victor Jacob and the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal de Versailles in scenes from “Zaide,” “Le Nozze di Figaro,” “Don Pasquale,” “L’Elisir d’amore,” and “Lucia di Lammermoor”

Performance Date: Feb. 3, 2027

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Midis du Capitole

Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch join forces for a recital.

Performance Date: Nov. 26, 2026

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Faustine Egiziano, Thaïs Raï-Westphal, Pierre-Yves Cras, Benjamin Guilbaud, and Etienne Caron perform in Lauréats du Concours de Gordes.

Performance Date: Feb. 4, 2027

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Les Dames du Chœur du Capitole will be led by Gabriel Bourgoin. 

Performance Date: March 4, 2027

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Jean-François Lapointe and Franck Villard will perform a recital.

Performance Date: April 29, 2027

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Adrien Mathonat and Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur team up for an evening of song with pianist Carlos Sanchis Aguirre.

Performance Date: May 20, 2027

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Rose Naggar-Tremblay concludes the recital season with Robert Gonnella.

Performance Date: June 24, 2027