The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced its 2024-25 season.

Opera

Nicola Luisotti and Andrés Salado conduct Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur” in David McVicar’s production. The production will star Ermonela Jaho, Maria Agresta, Brian Jagde, Matthew Polenzani, Elīna Garanča, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Nicola Alaimo, and Manel Esteve.

Performance Dates: Sept. 23-Oct. 11, 2024

Charpentier’s “David et Jonathas” will be performed in concert with Petr Nekoranec, Gwendoline Blondeel, Jean-Christophe Lanièce, Lucile Richardot, Etienne Bazola, and Alex Rosen. Sébastien Daucé conducts.

Performance Dates: Sept. 27, 2024

Katie Mitchell directs Handel’s “Theodora” with Ivor Bolton conducting. Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato, Iestyn Davies, Ed Lyon, Callum Thorpe, and Thando Mjandana star.

Performance Dates: Nov. 11-23, 2024

Lisette Oropesa and Yolanda Auyanet lead Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” with Aigul Akhmetshina, Silvia Tro Santafé, Ismael Jordi, Airam Hernández, Roberto Tagliavini, and Krzysztof Baczyk. David McVicar directs a new production with Jose Miguel Pérez-Sierra conducting.

Performance Dates: Dec. 14-30, 2024

Handel’s “Alcina” will be performed in concert with Elsa Dreisig, Sandrine Piau, Emily d’Angelo, Nadezhda Karyazina, Alex Rosen, Stefan Sbonnik, and Bruno de Sá. Francesco Corti conducts.

Performance Dates: Dec. 15, 2024

Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” will star Katarina Dalayman, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Victoria Karkacheva, Iurii Samoilov, Bogdan Volkov, and Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev. Gustavo Gimeno and Kornilios Michailidis conduct Christof Loy’s production.

Performance Dates: Jan. 22-Feb. 18, 2025

Emiliano González Toro, Olivia Vermeulen, Polina Pastirchak, Kateryna Kasper, and Mak Milhofer star in Mozart’s “Idomeneo” in a semi-staged production. René Jacobs conducts.

Performance Date: Jan. 23, 2025

Manuel de Falla’s “La Vida Breve” and Jesús Torres’ “Tejas Verdes” will be performed in a double bill. De Falla’s work will star Adriana González, Eduardo Aladrén, Ana Ibarra, Rubén Amoretti, Carmen Mateo, Gerardo Bullón, and Alejandro del Cerro while Torres’ work will include Natalia Labourdette, Maria Miró, Sandra Ferrández, Alicia Amo, Ana Ibarra, and Laura Vila. Jordi Francés conducts the new production by Rafael R. Villalobos.

Performance Dates: Feb. 13-22, 2025

Terradellas’ “La Merope” will be performed in concert with a cast that includes Emoke Baráth, Francesca Pia Vitale, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Valerio Contaldo, Sunhae Im, and Margherita Maria Sala. Francesco Corti conducts.

Performance Date: Feb. 21, 2025

Ivor Bolton conducts Mozart’s “Mitridate, Re di Ponte” in Claus Guth’s production. The production will star Juan Francisco Gatell, Siyabonga Maqungo, Sara Blanch, Ruth Iniesta, Elsa Dreisig, Vanessa Goikoetxea, Franco Fagioli, Tim Mead, Pretty Yende, and Sabina Puértolas.

Performance Dates: March 23-April 9, 2025

Galuppi’s “L’uomo femmina” will be performed in concert with Eva Zaïcik, Lucile Richardot, Victoire Bunel, Anas Séguin, Victor Sicard, and Paco García. Vincent Dumestre conducts.

Performance Dates: April 3, 2025

Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” will star Ante Jerkunica, Svetlana Aksenova, Stine Marie Fischer, Bernarda Bobro, Carole Wilson, Bogdan Volkov, Nina Minasyan, Vasily Gorshkov, Alejandro del Cerro, Alexander Vassiliev, and Alexander Kravets.

Karel Mark Chichon conducts the production by Dmitri Tcherniakov.

Performance Dates: April 30-May 11, 2025

Michael Spyres and Joyce DiDonato star in Handel’s “Jephtha” with Francesco Corti conducting teh concert performance.

Performance Date: May 1, 2025

Christian Van Horn sings the title role of Verdi’s “Attila” with Artur Rucinski, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Michael Fabiano. Nicola Luisotti conducts the concert performance.

Performance Date: May 14, 2025

Paul-Antoine Bénos-Dijan, Thomas Walker, Polina Pastirchak, Alex Chance, Helena Rasker, and Matthias Winckhler star in concert performances of Handel’s “Tamerlano.” René Jacobs conducts.

Performance Date: May 16, 2025

Rameau’s “Les Indes Galantes” will be performed in concert with Leonardo García Alarcón conducting. Julie Roset, Ana Quintans, Mathias Vidal, and Andreas Wolf star.

Performance Dates: May 28-June 1, 2025

Henrik Nánási and Francesc Prat conduct Verdi’s “La Traviata” in Willy Decker’s production. The production stars Nadine Sierra, Adela Zaharia, Xabier Anduaga, Iván Ayón Rivas, Juan Diego Flórez, Luca Salsi, Artur Rucinski, and Gëzim Myshketa.

Performance Dates: June 24-July 23, 2025

Daniel Oren conducts concert performances of Verdi’s “I Lombardi alla prima crociata” with Iván Ayón Rivas, Alex Esposito, Miren Urbieta-Vega, Anna Pirozzi, Manuel Fuentes, and Francesco Meli.

Performance Dates: July 6 & 9, 2025

Concerts 

Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov lead a concert of scenes from “Turandot,” “La bohème,” “Manon Lescaut,” “Le Villi,” and “Madama Butterfly.” Denis Vlasenko conducts the program which also includes Jérôme Boutillier and Daria Rybak.

Performance Date: Sept. 4, 2024

Juan Diego Flórez and Anna María Patiño-Osorio perform scenes from “I Capuleti e I Montecchi,” “Il duca d’Alba,” “Roberto Devereux,” “Jerusalem,” “Roméo et Juliette,” “La belle Hélène,” “La alegría del batallón,” “La pícara molinera,” and “El último romántico.”

Performance Date: Sept. 9, 2024

Ludovic Tézier and Giacomo Sagripanti take on the music of Wagner and Verdi.

Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2024

Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała scenes from “Manon Lescaut,” “Tosca,” “Aida,” and “Rusalka.” Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.

Performance Date: Nov. 3, 2024

Asmik Grigorian and Henrik Nánási perform the music of Mijaíl Glinka, Armen Tigranian, Nikolái Rimski-Kórsakov, Giacomo Puccini, and Giuseppe Verdi.

Performance Date: Nov. 24, 2024

Michael Volle and Gabriela Scherer perform scenes from “Der fliegende Holländer,” “Tannhäuser,” and “Tristan und Isolde” with Gustavo Gimeno conducting.

Performance Date: March 29, 2025

The Concierto Concurso Tenor Vinas will be performed.

Performance Date: April 6, 2025

Sabine Devieilhe and Stéphane Degout perform alongside Raphaël Pichon and the Ensemble Pygmalion in a program of scenes from Thomas’ “Hamlet” and  Fauré’s Requiem.

Performance Date: May 13, 2025