Brian Jagde, Thomas Hampson, Renée Fleming, Luca Salsi, Francisco Meli, Juan Diego Flórez, Adela Zaharia, Eleonora Buratto, Anastasia Bartoli & Diana Damrau Lead Teatro alla Scala’s 2026-27 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Teatro alla Scala has announced its 2026-27 season.
Opera
Myung–Whun Chung conducts Verdi’s “Otello” for opening night in a production by Damiano Michieletto. The cast will include Brian Jagde, Luca Salsi, and Eleonora Buratto accompanied by Juan Francisco Gatell and Szilvia Vörös. A second cast will star Arsen Soghomonyan, Roberto Frontali and Roberta Mantegna.
Performance Dates: Dec. 7, 2026-Jan. 5, 2027
Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles” will star Olga Peretyatko, Dmitry Korchak, Igor Golovatenko, and Nicolas Courjal. Henrik Nánási conducts the production by Arnaud Bernard.
Performance Dates: Jan. 22-Feb. 7, 2027
Two casts highlight Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” The first cast will include Luca Micheletti, Adela Zaharia, Gianluca Buratto, Daniel Behle, Marta Torbidoni, Alex Esposito, Lodovico Filippo Ravizza, and Mara Gaudenzi. The second cast will star Davide Luciano, Francesca Pia Vitale, Dmitry Korchak, Tara Erraught, and Tommaso Barea. Thomas Guggeis conducts
Performance Dates: Feb. 3-28, 2027
Daniel Oren conducts Puccini’s “La Boheme” with Stefan Pop, Valentyn Dytiuk, Alessio Arduini, Matteo Peirone, Carolina López Moreno, Maria Teresa Leva, Davide Luciano, Riccardo Fassi, and Sara Blanch.
Performance Dates: Feb. 16-March 7, 2027
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya and Monica Conesa lead Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” with Raffaella Lupinacci, Alberto Petricca, Juan Diego Flórez, Juan Francisco Gatell, and Roberto Tagliavini.
Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducts the production by Chiara Muti.
Performance Dates: March 30-April 16, 2027
Riccardo Chailly conducts Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” with Andrew Harris, Rebecca Nelsen, Thomas Atkins, Alex Esposito, Natascha Petrinsky, Jamie Barton, Robert Murray, and Thomas Kohl. Kasper Holten directs.
Performance Dates: April 17-30, 2027
Two casts lead Verdi’s “Macbeth” in Barrie Kosky’s new production. Myung–Whun Chung conducts casts that include Luca Salsi, Fabián Veloz, René Pape, Simon Lim, Anastasia Bartoli, Marta Torbidoni, Francesco Meli, and Antonio Poli.
Performance Dates: May 4-22, 2027
Gaëlle Arquez, Alex Esposito, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emy Gazeilles, Samy Camps, Didier Pieri, and Saori Sugiyama lead Massenet’s “Don Quichotte.”
Bertrand De Billy conducts the production by Damiano Michieletto.
Performance Dates: May 23-June 14, 2027
Davide Livermore directs a new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” with Fabio Luisi conducting. The cast includes Giorgi Manoshvili, Galeano Salas, Valerio Borgioni, Mattia Olivieri, Adela Zaharia, and Gilda Fiume.
Performance Dates: June 15-July 1, 2027
Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming lead John Adams’ “Nixon in China” with Alfred Kim, Kathleen Kim, Seth Carico, Xiaomeng Zhang, Aebh Kelly, Ning Liang, and Lora Grigorieva. Kent Nagano conducts the production by Valentina Carasco.
Performance Dates: June 26-July 13, 2027
Paër’s “Leonora” will be conducted by Roland Böer and directed by Daniele Menghin. The production will star Solisti dell’Accademia di perfezionamento per cantanti lirici del Teatro alla Scala.
Performance Dates: Sept. 11-26, 2027
Giulio Cilona conducts a revival of Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” Two casts will be made up by Jack Swanson, Dave Monaco, Marco Filippo Romano, Omar Montanari, Mara Gaudenzi, Chiara Amarù, Boris Pinkhasovich, Lodovico Filippo Ravizza, and Huanhong Li.
Performance Dates: Oct. 2-29, 2027
Emily D’Angelo, Alessio Arduini, Mélissa Petit and Carlo Vistoli leads Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Gianluca Capuano conducts Marcos Morau’s production.
Performance Dates: Oct. 26-Nov. 16, 2027
Concerts
Riccardo Chailly conducts Bach’s Johannes–Passion with Mark Padmore, Manuel Günther, Anke Vondung, Grace Davidson, Peter Mattei, and Peter Harvey.
Performance Dates: March 23-26, 2027
Kirill Petrenko conducts Richard Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder and Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du printemps.”
Performance Dates: Oct. 5-7, 2027
Myung–Whun Chung conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Valentina Farcas, Fleuranne Brockway, Siyabonga Maqungo, and Christoph Pohl.
Performance Dates: Nov. 12-17, 2027
Guest Orchestras
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Matthäus–Passion” with Reinoud van Mechelen, Roderick Williams, Miriam Feuersinger, Magdalena Kožená, and Tomáš Král.
Performance Date: March 15, 2027
Christophe Rousset conducts Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Aricie” with Reinoud van Mechelen, Marie Lys, Aphrodite Patoulidou, Christian Immler, Juliette Mey, Neima Fischer, Philippe Estèphe, Kieran White, Lysandre Châlon, Jordan Mouaïssia, and Adrien Fournaison.
Performance Date: April 23, 2027
Kirill Petrenko conducts a Mendelssohn, Mahler, and Schubert program with Elsa Dreisig.
Performance Date: Nov. 15, 2027
Special Concerts
Myung–Whun Chung conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Valentina Farcas, Fleuranne Brockway, Siyabonga Maqungo, and Simon Lim.
Performance Date: Dec. 20, 2026
Michele Gamba and Juan Diego Flórez perform Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi.
Performance Date: Oct. 30, 2027
Recitals
Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch lead an evening of Berg, Debussy, Grieg, Korngold, and Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Performance Date: June 13, 2027
Micheal Spyres and Mathieu Pordoy lead a program of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, and Verdi.
Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2027
Philippe Jaroussky and Jérôme Ducros perform Bellini, Caccini, Cavalli, Respighi, Rossini, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi
Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2027
Jessica Pratt and Vincenzo Scalera team up for Bellini, Donizetti, Mozart, and Strauss.
Performance Date: Nov. 22, 2027
Brian Jagde and Nelson Calzi perform in recital music by Britten, Schumann, Strauss, and Tosti
Performance Date: Dec. 3, 2027
Chamber music
Valentina De Vecchi, Margherita Chiminelli, Silvia Spruzzola, Serena Pasquini, Olivia Antoshkina, Viktoriia Tkachuk, Luca Di Gioia, Massimiliano Di Fino, Davide Sensales Davide Baronchelli, Giuseppe Capoferri, Sandro Chiri, and Massimiliano Tisserant lead a program of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. Alberto Malazzi conducts.
Performance Date: May 9, 2027
Roberta Salvati, Vittoria Vimercati, Luigi Albani, and Marco Durizzi lead a program that includes Beethoven and Brahms.
Performance Date: Nov. 7, 2027
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