The Opéra National de Paris has announced its 2025-26 season.

The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème,” featuring Nicole Car, Yaritza Véliz, Charles Castronovo, Joshua Guerrero, Andrea Carroll, Étienne Dupuis, Xiaomeng Zhang, and Alexandros Stavrakakis. Domingo Hindoyan conducts.

Performance Dates: Sept. 12-Oct. 14, 2025

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Cecilia Molinari leads Handel’s “Ariodante” alongside Luca Tittoto, Jacquelyn Stucker, Sabine Devieilhe, Rupert Charlesworth, Christophe Dumaux, and Enrico Casari. Raphaël Pichon conducts the revival.

Performance Dates: Sept. 16-Oct. 12, 2025

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Saioa Hernández and Ewa Płonka headline a new production of Verdi’s “Aida” with Piotr Beczała, Gregory Kunde, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Judit Kutasi, Roman Burdenko, Amartüvshin Enkhbat, Alexander Köpeczi, and Krzysztof Bączyk. Michele Mariotti and Dmitry Matvienko lead the new production by Shirin Neshat.

Performance Dates: Sept. 24-Nov. 4, 2025

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Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Iain Paterson, Günther Groissböck, Elza van den Heever, Tamara Wilson, and Eve-Maud Hubeaux lead Calixto Bieito’s new production of Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Pablo Heras-Casado conducts.

Performance Dates: Nov. 11-30, 2025

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Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” will star Gordon Bintner, Vartan Gabrielian, Sabine Devieilhe, Ilanah Lobel-Torres, Christian Gerhaher, Jérôme Boutillier, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Margarita Polonskaya, Lea Desandre, and Seray Pinar. Antonello Manacorda conducts.

Performance Dates: Nov. 15-Dec. 27, 2025

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Puccini’s “Tosca” will see four sopranos alternate in the title role. Saioa Hernández, Elena Stikhina, Angel Blue, and Sondra Radvanovsky star alongside Roberto Alagna, Jonas Kaufmann, Adam Smith, Freddie De Tommaso, Yusif Eyvazov, Alexey Markov, Ludovic Tézier, and Gevorg Hakobyan. Oksana Lyniv and Jader Bignamini conduct.

Performance Dates: Nov. 23, 2026-April 18, 2026

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Calixto Bieito directs Wagner’s “Siegfried” with Andreas Schager, Gerhard Siegel, Iain Paterson, Brian Mulligan, Mika Kares, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Tamara Wilson, and Ilanah Lobel-Torres. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts.

Performance Dates: Jan. 17-31, 2026

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Boris Pinkhasovich, Ruzan Mantashyan, Bogdan Volkov, Marvic Monreal, and Dmitry Belosselskiy lead a new production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” Semyon Bychkov and Case Scaglione conducts the new production by Ralph Fiennes.

Performance Dates: Jan. 26-Feb. 27, 2026

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Matthew Polenzani, Anna Netrebko, Angela Meade, Igor Golovatenko, Ludovic Tézier, Andrii Kymach, Sara Blanch, and Elizabeth DeShong star in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” with Speranza Scappucci conducting.

Performance Dates: Jan. 27-Feb. 26, 2026

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Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Victoria Karkacheva star in Bizet’s “Carmen” alongside Russell Thomas, Jean‑François Borras, Amina Edris, and Erwin Schrott. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.

Performance Dates: Feb. 7-March 19, 2026

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Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming headline John Adams’ “Nixon in China” with John Matthew Myers, Caroline Wettergreen, and Joshua Bloom. Kent Nagano conducts.

Performance Dates: Feb. 24-March 20, 2026

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Chloé Dufresne conducts Mozart’s “La Finta Giardiniera” in a production by Julie Delille. The opera stars artists in residence at the Paris Opera Academy.

Performance Dates: March 24-April 1, 2026

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Anthony Roth Costanzo leads Philip Glass’ “Satyagraha” with Ilanah Lobel-Torres, Davóne Tines, Adriana Bignagni Lesca, Olivia Boen, Deepa Johnny, Amin Ahangaran, Nicky Spence, and Nicolas Cavallier.

Performance Dates: April 10-May 3, 2026

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Nicole Car stars in Dvořák’s “Rusalka” alongside Sergei Skorokhodov, Ekaterina Gubanova, Alissa Kolossova, Dimitry Ivashchenko, and Jamie Barton. Kazushi Ōno conducts.

Performance Dates: May 2-20, 2026

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Andreas Wolf, Julie Fuchs, Ana Vieira Leite, Deepa Johnny, Marcel Beekman, Alasdair Kent, Sandrine Piau, Théo Imart, Teona Todua, and Alex Rosen star in Antonia Bembo’s “Ercole Amante.” Leonardo García Alarcón conducts Netia Jones’ new production.

Performance Dates: May 28-June 14, 2026

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Vasilisa Berzhanskaya and Gaëlle Arquez star in Donizetti’s “La Cenerentola” with Lawrence Brownlee, Nicola Alaimo, Huw Montague Rendall, Ilanah Lobel-Torres, Maria Warenberg, and Adolfo Corrado. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

Performance Dates: June 3-July 11, 2026

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Aida Garifullina and Pretty Yende star in Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Xabier Anduaga, René Barbera, Roman Burdenko, and Ludovic Tézier.

Performance Dates: June 4-July 13, 2026

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Concerts 

The Academy will hold an Anniversary Concert.

Performance Date: Sept. 18, 2025

Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a Lyric gala with Karen Kamensek. The program includes music by Handel and Philip Glass.

Performance Date: Nov. 14, 2025

Pablo Heras-Casado conducts a gala with artists in residence at the Paris Opera Academy.

Performance Date: Jan. 20, 2026

Pene Pati and Ching-Lien Wu perform Hector Berlioz’s Requiem.

Performance Date: May 22, 2026