Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva, Elīna Garanča, Philippe Jaroussky, Marina Rebeka, Ermonela Jaho, Ailyn Pérez, Pretty Yende, Rachel Willis-Sørensen & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Théâtre des Champs-Elysées’ 2026-27 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Théâtre des Champs-Elysées has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances:
Opera – Staged
Lorenzo Passerini conducts Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” in a production by Oliver Mears. The cast includes Ailyn Pérez, Roberto Alagna, Lionel Lhote, and Nicola Ulivieri.
Performance Dates: Nov. 2-15, 2026
Pretty Yende, Amitai Pati, Florian Sempey, and Sulkhan Jaiani lead Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de perles.”
Marc Minkowski conducts the new production by Pierre-André Weitz.
Performance Dates: Dec. 5-14, 2026
Valentina Carrasco directs Händel’s “Rinaldo” with Philippe Jaroussky conducting. The cast includes Carlo Vistoli, Regula Mühlemann, Karine Deshayes, Christophe Dumaux, Nahuel Di Pierro, Paul Figuier, Dominique Visse, and Elsa Roux Chamoux.
Performance Dates: Feb, 22-28, 2027
“Orphée,” by Hector Berlioz, after “Orphée et Eurydice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck, will be conducted by Speranza Scappucci. Ted Huffman directs a production that stars Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Orphée, Lauranne Oliva as Eurydice, and Camille Chopin as Amour.
Performance Dates: April 20-29, 2027
Opera in Concert
Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung” will star Young Woo Kim, Asa Jäger, Patrick Zielke, Johannes Kammler, Sophia Brommer, Daniel Schmutzhard, and Annika Schlicht. The Dresdner Festspielorchester & Concerto Köln will be conducted by Kent Nagano.
Performance Date: Sept. 13, 2026
Massenet’s “Roma” will be performed Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Jean-François Borras, Julie Robard-Gendre, Tassis Christoyannis, Patrick Bolleire, Jérôme Boutillier, Hélène Carpentier, Anna Dowsley, and Clémence Tilquin. The Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo will be conducted by Diego Ceretta.
Performance Date: Sept. 28, 2026
Marie-Nicole Lemieux leads Charpentier’s “Médée‘ with Petr Nekoranec, Juliette Mey, Alex Rosen, Étienne Bazola, Camille Poul, and Claire Lefilliâtre. Les Épopées will be led by Stéphane Fuget.
Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2026
Huw Montague Rendall, Emőke Baráth, Lauranne Oliva, Adrien Fournaison, and Eva Zaïcik star in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” with B’ Rock Orchestra conducted by Francesco Corti.
Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2026
Prokofiev’s “L’Amour des trois oranges” will be conducted by Dmitry Matvienko and will star Lucie Roche, Damien Pass, Robert Lewis, Marc Mauillon, Daniel Mirosław, Giulia Scopelliti, Céleste Pinel, and Jean-Fernand Setti.
Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2026
Vivaldi’s “Stabat Mater” and “Nisi Dominus” will showcase Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse.
Performance Date: Nov. 8, 2026
Magdalena Kožena, Julia Lezhneva, Christophe Dumaux, Adèle Charvet, Nicolas Brooymans, Adrien Fournaison, and Paul Figuier star in Händel’s “Agrippina” with Les Accents under Thibault Noally.
Performance Date: Nov. 10, 2026
Puccini’s “La Rondine” will star Mané Galoyan, Pene Pati, Déborah Salazar, Marc Barrard, and Léo Vermot-Desroches. The Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux will be conducted by Roberto Kalb.
Performance Date: Nov. 19, 2026
Nina Spinosi, Rémy Brès-Feuillet, Gaël Lefèvre, and Florian Boesch lead Händel’s “Messiah” with the Ensemble Matheus and conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
Performance Date: Dec. 6, 2026
Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė, Sasha Cooke, Patrick Grahl, and Christian Immler lead Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” with the Orchestre National de France and conductor Trevor Pinnock.
Performance Date: Dec. 18, 2026
Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” will star Juan Sancho, Jennifer Courcier, Cyril Auvity, Isabelle Druet, Claire Lefilliâtre, Frédéric Caton, Paul Figuier, and Vlad Crosman. Les Épopées will be conducted by Stéphane Fuget.
Performance Date: Jan. 18, 2027
Allegri’s “Miserere” and Rachmaninov’s “Les Vêpres” will feature the Chœur Tenebrae and conductor Nigel Short.
Performance Date: Jan. 19, 2027
Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” will star Cyrille Dubois, Juliette Mey, Stefan Astakhov, Marc Barrard, and Adolfo Corrado. The Orchestre Symphonique Région will be led by Laurent Campellone.
Performance Date: Jan. 20, 2027
Mozart’s “Requiem” and “Messe” will showcase soloists Lydia Hoen Tjore, Beth Taylor, Lunga Eric Hallam, and Alex Rosen. Les Musiciens du Louvre will be conducted by Marc Minkowski.
Performance Date: Jan. 27, 2027
The Orchestre et Chœur Le Concert Spirituel under Hervé Niquet will lead Händel’s “Israël en Égypte.” The soloists will include Thaïs Raï-Westphal, Mélissa Petit, Avery Amereau, Rupert Charlesworth, Andreas Wolf, and Matthieu Walendzik.
Performance Date: Feb. 27, 2027
Maharran Huseynov leads Verdi’s “Attila” with Navasard Hakobyan, Lidia Fridman, and Pietro Pretti. The Orchestre National de France will be conducted by legendary conductor Riccardo Muti.
Performance Dates: March 4 & 6, 2027
“Le Carnaval Baroque” will feature music by Fàsolo to Monteverdi and will be conducted by Vincent Dumestre. Cécile Roussat directs the evening which will feature soloists Anaïs Bertrand, Paco Garcia, Martial Pauliat, and Igor Bouin.
Performance Date: March 9, 2027
Mozart’s “Mitridate, re di Ponto” will star Ian Koziara, Chiara Skerath, Désirée Giove, Florie Valiquette, Francesca Pia Vitale, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, and Alasdair Kent. The Kammerorchester Basel will be led by Francesco Corti.
Performance Date: March 12, 2027
Purcell’s “Didon et Énée” will star Adèle Charvet, Henry Neill, Ana Quintans, Igor Bouin, and Caroline Meng. Le Poème Harmonique will be led by Vincent Dumestre.
Performance Date: March 13, 2027
Rowan Pierce, Henriette Gödde, Patrick Grahl, Tobias Berndt, and Markus Eiche star in Bach’s St Jean Passion with the Kammerorchester Basel and Hans-Christoph Rademann.
Performance Date: March 22, 2027
Iván Ayón-Rivas stars in Gounod’s “Faust” alongside Christian Van Horn, Angélique Boudeville, Aliénor Feix, and Michał Partyka. The Orchestre Symphonique de la Garde républicaine will be conducted by Bastien Stil.
Performance Date: March 23, 2027
Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” will be performed with music by Vivaldi and Scarlatti and will also include Nina Spinosi and Marie-Nicole Lemieux alongside the Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
Performance Date: March 27, 2027
Nina Stemme and Jennifer France star in “Les Sept péchés capitaux / Die sieben Todsünden” by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra is conducted by H. K. Gruber.
Performance Date: March 30, 2027
Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” will star Céline Scheen, Tereza Zimková, Luciana Mancini, Aneta Petrasová, Eric Stoklossa, Jan Petryka, Ondřej Holub, Matthias Winckhler, Krešimir Stražanac, and Tomáš Šelc. The Orchestre et Chœur Collegium 1704 will be conducted by Václav Luks.
Performance Date: March 31, 2027
Ermonela Jaho stars in Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” with Marina Viotti, Levy Sekgapane, and Michele Pertusi. The Orchestre de chambre de Paris will be conducted by Clelia Cafiero.
Performance Date: April 1, 2027
Michael Spyres, Chelsea Zurflüh, Madison Nonoa, Arianna Vendittelli, Margherita Sala, and Alex Rosen star in Porpora’s “Mitridate.” Andrea Buccarella conducts il Pomo d’Oro.
Performance Date: April 26, 2027
Lucile Richardot, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Juliette Mey, Mélissa Petit, and Bruno de Sá star in Vivaldi’s “La Griselda.” Le Concert de la Loge is conducted by Julien Chauvin.
Performance Date: May 12, 2027
Stravinsky’s “Œdipus Rex” will star Michael Schade, Jamie Barton, Matthias Goerne, and Morris Robinson. The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester will be conducted by Alan Gilbert.
Performance Date: May 24, 2027
Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Aricie” will star Cyrille Dubois, Manon Lamaison, Margaux Poguet, Ema Nikolovska, Alex Rosen, and Jean-Philippe McClish. Les Musiciens du Louvre will be conducted by Marc Minkowski.
Performance Date: May 28, 2027
Mélissa Petit and Cyrille Dubois lead Daniel Steibelt’s “Roméo et Juliette” with Emma Fekete, Matthieu Lécroart, Mathias Vidal, Pierre Gennaï, and François Rougier. Les Talens Lyriques is conducted by Christophe Rousset.
Performance Date: June 9, 2027
Elīna Garanča and Christian Van Horn star in Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle.” The Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo will be conducted by Lio Kuokman.
Performance Date: June 22, 2027
Rameau’s “Platée” will close out the opera series with Alasdair Kent, Petr Nekoranec, Guilhem Worms, Catherine Trottmann, Mathieu Gourlet, Lila Dufy, and Axelle Saint-Cirel. TheEnsemble Il Caravaggio will be conducted by Camille Delaforge.
Performance Date: June 24, 2027
Concerts
Les Siècles will be conducted by Pierre Bleuse in a program of music by Bernstein, Dvorak, and Arancio. Soloists include Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Judith Pisar, and Leah Pisar.
Performance Date: Oct. 1, 2026
Samuel Hasselhorn and Ammiel Bushakevitz take on Schubert’s “Winterreise.”
Performance Date: Oct. 16, 2026
Freddie De Tommaso and Mihai Damian perform with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and Patrick Lange. The concert features arias and duets by Verdi, Ponchielli, and Puccini.
Performance Date: Nov. 9, 2026
“Le Messie pour les enfants” will star Nina Spinosi, Rémy Brès-Feuillet, and Gaël Lefèvre.
Performance Date: Dec. 6, 2026
Bruno de Sá, Cecilia Molinari, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux perform Scarlatti and Corelli alongside Les Accents and Thibault Noally.
Performance Date: Dec. 16, 2026
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris under Thomas Hengelbrock will perform music by Handel and Mozart. Jeanine De Bique will be the soloist.
Performance Date: Dec. 17, 2026
L’Arpeggiata, under Christina Pluhar, perform works by Andrea Falconiero, Cristoforo Caresana, Francesco Provenzale, and Pietro Antonio Giramo. Céline Scheen, Luciana Mancini, Vincenzo Capezzuto, Valer Sabadus, Alessandro Giangrande, and João Fernandes.
Performance Date: Jan. 23, 2027
Matthias Goerne and Mikhaïl Pletnev perform works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf.
Performance Date: Jan. 24, 2027
Amina Edris and Pene Pati ténor team up with the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie and conductor Samy Rachid for works by Berlioz, Verdi, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, and Puccini.
Performance Date: Jan. 29, 2027
The Orchestre National de France under Kristiina Poska perform music by Pärt, Criton, and Chauris. Juliet Fraser, Renaud Capuçon, and Iris Scialom are the soloists.
Performance Date: Feb. 4, 2027
Anna Netrebko, Brian Jagde, and George Petean perform alongside the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and Marco Armiliato. The concert features works by Verdi, Leoncavallo, Puccini, Giordano, and Cilea.
Performance Date: March 14, 2027
The Chœur et Orchestre de la Gaechinger Cantorey under Hans-Christoph Rademann perform Bach.
Performance Date: April 2, 2027
Marina Rebeka and Jonas Kaufmann take on Verdi’s work with Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and Jochen Rieder.
Performance Date: April 11, 2027
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris under Thomas Hengelbrock perform Beethoven and Méhul. The soloist is Eva Zaïcik.
Performance Date: May 21, 2027
Domingo Hindoyan and Sonya Yoncheva perform with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. The program includes music by Beethoven, Britten, Martucci, and Dvořák.
Performance Date: May 22, 2027
Asmik Grigorian and Lukas Geniušas take on a recital of music by Rachmaninov.
Performance Date: May 29, 2027
Voces8 perform music by Josquin des Prés, Smith, Rachmaninov, Runestad, Walker, Davis, Perling, and Duke.
Performance Date: May 30, 2027
Lea Desandre and Jupiter under Thomas Dunford showcase the music of Telemann, Händel, Lully, Desmarests, Arne, Leveridge, and Torri.
Performance Date: June 2, 2027
Philippe Jordan conducts the Orchestre National de France in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with soloists Nicole Car, Marianne Crebassa, Daniel Behle, and Peter Kellner.
Performance Date: June 10, 2027
Les Grandes voix d’opéra d’Afrique will feature Betty Garcés, Suzanne Taffot, Farrah El-Dibany, Veena Akama-Makia, Chauncey Packer, Luvuyo Mbundu, Antoin Herrera-López Kessel, and Aaron Pendleton. Sébastien Billard conducts.
Performance Date: June 11, 2027
The season concludes with “La Folle soirée de l’opéra.”
Performance Date: June 25, 2027
