The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées has announced its 2025-26 season.

Opera Productions 

Jakob Lehmann conducts Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” in a production by Silvia Costa. Benjamin Bernheim, Viktoria Karkacheva, Christian Van Horn, and Thomas Dolié star.

Performance Dates: Nov. 3-15, 2025

Offenbach’s “Robinson Crusoé” will be conducted by Marc Minkowski and directed by Laurent Pelly.

Lawrence Brownlee, Julie Fuchs, Laurent Naouri, Marc Mauillon, Rodolphe Briand, Matthieu Toulouse, Adèle Charvet, Emma Fekete, and Julie Pasturaud.

Performance Dates: Dec. 3-14, 2025

Poulenc’s “La Voix humaine” and Thierry Escaich’s “Point d’orgue” will be featured ina double bill. Ariane Matiakh conducts the Olivier Py production. Patricia Petibon, Jean-Sébastien Bou, and Cyrille Dubois star.

Performance Dates: March 9-17, 2025

Lauranne Oliva, Zachary Wilder, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Milan Siljanov, Dominic Sedgwick, Anna Bonitatibus, Giuseppina Bridelli, Petr Nekoranec, and José Coca Loza star in Cavalli’s “La Calisto.” Sébastien Daucé conducts the production by Jetske Mijnssen.

Performance Dates: May 4 & 6, 2026

Jessica Pratt, Amitai Pati, Ante Jerkunica, Lunga Eric Hallam, Manon Lamaison, and Uli Kirsch star in Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail.” Laurence Equilbey conducts the production by Florent Siaud.

Performance Dates: June 3-12, 2026

Opera in concert 

Cavalli’s “Pompeo Magno” will Star Max-Emanuel Cenčić, Victor Sicard, Lucía Martín-Cartón, Stefan Sbonnik, Pierre-Antoine Chaumien, Marcel Beekman, Mariana Flores, Nicolò Balducci, Franko Klisović, Valerio Contaldo, Kacper Szelążek, Dominique Visse, and Valer Sabadus. Leonardo García-Alarcón conducts the Cappella Mediterranea.

Performance Date: Oct. 1, 2025

Händel’s “Theodora” will star Lea Desandre, Hugh Cutting, Véronique Gens, Laurence Kilsby, and Alex Rosen. Thomas Dunford conducts the Ensemble Jupiter.

Performance Date: Oct. 7, 2025

Emiliano Gonzalez Toro stars as Vivaldi’s “Farnace” with Key’mon W. Murrah, Deniz Uzun, Adèle Charvet, Juan Sancho, Daria Proszek, and Alvaro Zambrano. EmilianoGonzalez Toro will conduct the Ensemble I Gemelli.

Performance Date: Oct. 8, 2025

Purcell’s “King Arthur” will star Hélène Guilmette, Floriane Hasler, Cyril Auvity, Robin Tritschler, and Andreas Wolf. Hervé Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel.

Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2025

Philippe Jaroussky will conduct Händel’s “Alcina” and feature the Ensemble Artaserse. Kathryn Lewek, Carlo Vistoli, Lauranne Oliva, Katarina Bradić, Zachary Wilder, and Nicolas Brooymans star.

Performance Date: Nov. 5, 2025

Mozart’s “Messe en ut” will star Mélissa Petit, Eva Zaïcik, Sahy Ratia, and Nahuel di Pierro. Julien Chauvin conducts the Ensemble La Sportelle and Le Concert de la Loge.

Performance Date: Nov. 7, 2025

Camille Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël will feature the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and Thomas Hengelbrock.

Performance Date: Dec. 4, 2025

Händel’s “Messiah” will star Grace Davidson, Martha McLorinan, Jeremy Budd, and Jimmy Holiday. Nigel Short conducts the Kammerorchester Basel.

Performance Date: Dec. 13, 2025

Vivaldi’s “Il Tamerlano” will star Carlo Vistoli, Eva Zaïcik, Renato Dolcini, Julia Lezhneva, Anthea Pichanick, and Suzanne Jerosme. Thibault Noally conducts Les Accents.

Performance Date: Jan. 6, 2026

Karine Deshayes stars as Bellini’s “Norma” alongside Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Francesco Demuro, and Giorgi Manoshvili. Lorenzo Passerini conducts the Orchestre de chambre de Paris.

Performance Date: Jan. 8, 2026

Francesco Corti conducts Il Pomo d’Oro in Händel’s “Giulio Cesare.” Sabine Devieilhe, Jakub Józef Orliński, Yuri Minenko, Beth Taylor, Sophie Rennert, Marco Saccardin, Alex Rosen, and Rémy Brès-Feuillet star.

Performance Date: Feb. 6, 2026

Marina Rebeka stars in Cherubini’s “Médée” with Julien Behr, Mélissa Petit, Tassis Christoyannis, and Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur.

Julien Chauvin conducts Le Concert de la Loge.

Performance Date: Feb. 11, 2026

Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” will star Lisette Oropesa, Charles Castronovo, Paul Gay, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, and Éléonore Pancrazi. Clelia Cafiero conducts the Orchestre National de France.

Performance Date: Feb. 19, 2026

Händel’s “Orlando” will star Ana Maria Labin, Yuriy Mynenko, and Alina Wunderlin. Marc Minkowski conducst Les Musiciens du Louvre.

Performance Date: March 19, 2026

Mozart’s “Ascanio in Alba” will be conducted by Christophe Rousset and will feature Mélissa Petit, Alisa Kolosova, Anna El-Khashem, Alasdair Kent, and Rocío Pérez.

Performance Date: March 25, 2026

Véronique Gens, Luigi De Donato, Manon Lamaison, Isabelle Druet, Apolline Raï-Westphal, Marion Vergez-Pascal, and Attila Varga-Tóth star in Purcell’s “Didon et Énée.” Stéphane Fuget conducts Les Épopées.

Performance Date: March 27, 2026

Meyerbeer’s “Le Prophète” will star Marina Viotti, John Osborn, Emma Fekete, Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Jean Miannay, and Christian Zaremba.

Marc Leroy-Calatayud conducts Orchestre de chambre de Genève.

Performance Date: March 28, 2026

Hans-Christoph Rademann conducts the Chœur et orchestre du Gaechinger Cantorey in Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Miriam Feuersinger, Magdalene Harer, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Patrick Grahl, and Tobias Berndt star.

Performance Date: March 29, 2026

Mozart’s “Requiem” will star Regula Mühlemann, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Ian Castro, and William Meinert. Alevtina Ioffe conducts the Berner Symphonieorchester.

Performance Date: March 30, 2026

Marie Lys, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Cyrille Dubois, Guilhem Worms, and Mathieu Gourlet star in Bach’s Saint John Passion. Camille Delaforge  conducts the Ensemble Il Caravaggio.

Performance Date: April 1, 2026

Emmanuelle de Negri, Apolline Raï-Westphal, William Shelton, Mathilde Ortscheidt, Valerio Contaldo, Antonin Rondepierre, Sebastian Noack, and Felix Schwandtke lead Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion with Les Ambassadeurs~La Grande Écurie and Thibault Noally.

Performance Date: April 3, 2026

Julien Chauvin conducts Haydn’s “The Creation” with Regula Mühlemann, Nahuel di Pierro, and Stanislas de Barbeyrac. It also features Le Concert de la Loge.

Performance Date: April 8, 2026

Clay Hilley stars in Wagner’s “Siegfried” wth Ya-Chung Huang, Brian Mulligan, Samuel Youn, Tamara Wilson, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Soloman Howard, and Julie Roset. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Rotterdam Orchestra.

Performance Date: April 19, 2026

Händel’s “Il Delirio amoroso” and “Aminta e Fillide” with Emmanuelle de Negri and Brunode Sá.

Performance Date: June 5, 2026

Magdalena Kožená leads Händel’s “Ariodante” alongside Christophe Dumaux, EmilianoGonzalez Toro, Shira Patchornik, Erika Baikoff, and José Antonio López. Andrea Marcon conducts La Cetra Barockorchester Basel.

Performance Date: June 7, 2026

Marc Minkowski conducts Les Musiciens du Louvre in Händel’s “Dixit Dominus” and “Salve Regina” and Vivaldi’s “Stabat Mater.”

Performance Date: June 11, 2026

Fatma Saïd and Sasha Cooke star in Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater.” Francesco Corti conducts Les Ambassadeurs~La Grande Écurie.

Performance Date: June 16, 2026

Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” will star Pumeza Matshikiza, Bongani Justice Kubheka, Joseph DeCange, Marie-Laure Garnier, Joé Bertili, Axelle Saint-Cirel, Auguste Truel, and Livia Louis-Joseph Dogué. Quentin Hindley conducts the Ensemble vocal Voix d’Outre-mer.

Performance Date: June 30, 2026

Concert 

Adèle Charvet sings songs by Joséphine Baker. The Orchestre de Picardie is conducted by David Reiland. The program also includes music by Marçot and Milhaud.

Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2025

The Gala Joséphine Baker will feature Pretty Yende, Luan Pommier, and Precious Adams. The Orchestre National d’Île-de-France is featured.

Performance Date: Oct. 4, 2025

The Orchestre National de France conducted by Cristian Măcelaru will feature soloist Joyce DiDonato in a program of music that includes Strauss, Alma Mahler, and Mahler.

Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2025

Franco Fagioli and Michele d’Elia perform in recital. The program will include music by Caccini, Lotti, Cesti, Scarlatti, Haendel, Giacomelli, Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini.

Performance Date: Oct. 11, 2025

Harry Ogg conducts the Orchestre de chambre de Paris in music by El-Khoury, Beethoven, and Mozart. Soprano Erminie Blondel is the soloist.

Performance Date: Nov. 13, 2025

Le Grand concert de Noël de Radio Classique will be presented.

Performance Dates: Dec. 6 & 7, 2025

Natalie Dessay performs alongside her family Neïma Naouri, Laurent Naouri, and Tom Naouri.

Performance Date: Dec. 11, 2025

Pretty Yende performs alongside the Orchestre Lamoureux and Lorenzo Passerini. The evening includes Christmas carols and arias by Puccini.

Performance Date: Dec. 16, 2025

Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse perform “La Gelosia” featuring works by Scarlatti, Durante, Galuppi, Porpora, and Vivaldi.

Performance Date: Dec. 17, 2025

Cristian Măcelaru conducts the Orchestre National de France in a program of music by Rachmaninoff. Marina Rebeka, Pavel Petrov, and Alexander Roslavets are the soloists.

Performance Date: Dec. 18, 2025

Sonya Yoncheva sings Puccini and Verdi arias with Nayden Todorov conducting the Sofia Philharmonic.

Performance Date: Jan. 7, 2026

Catherine Trottmann and Alex Vizorek sing perform alongside the Orchestre de la Garde républicaine and Bastien Stil. The program includes music by Johann Strauss II, Johann, and Joseph Strauss.

Performance Date: Jan. 10, 2026

The Concert des Diapason d’or will feature Amina Edris, Lukas Geniušas, and
Jean-Guihen Queyras. Benjamin Levy conducts the Orchestre Pelléas.

Performance Date: Jan. 16, 2026

Kristina Mkhitaryan and Aigul Akhmetshina collaborate alongside Pavel Nebolsin in a program of music by Bellini, Donizetti, Tchaïkovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Performance Date: Feb. 9, 2026

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Orchestre de Chamber de Paris in a performance including music by Fauré, Berlioz, Rameau, and Lully. Stéphanie d’Oustrac is the soloist.

Performance Date: March 12, 2026

Jonas Kaufmann and Malin Byström team up for music by Lehár, Kalman, and Goldmark. Jochen Rieder conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Baden-Baden.

Performance Date: April 20, 2026

Pene Pati joins Il Pomo d’Oro in a program entitled Sérénade Napolitano. The program includes music by Calace, Lama, Bovio, Tosti, Buongiovanni, Di Giacomo, Gambardella, Ottaviano, Paliotti, Califano, Costa, Leoncavallo, D’Annunzio, Paliotti, Mario, Del Chiaro, Cannio, Califano, Denza, and Turco.

Performance Date: May 11, 2026

Lea Desandre and Huw Montague Rendall team up with the Orchestre National de Belgique for music by Mozart and Rossini.

Performance Date: May 12, 2026

Juraj Valcuha conducts the Orchestre National de France in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Marianne Crebassa and Clay Hilley are the soloists.

Performance Date: June 4, 2026

Marina Viotti and Friends will join Le Concert de La Loge and Julien Chauvin. The program includes Vivaldi, Haendel, Mozart, Bizet, Rossini, Offenbach, and Piaf.

Performance Date: June 14, 2026

Anna Netrebko and Pavel Nebolsin perform music by Bellini, Leoncavallo, Tchaïkovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Performance Date: June 18, 2026