Benjamin Bernheim, Sabine Devieilhe, Olga Peretyatko, Magdalena Kožená, Klaus Florian Vogt, Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, Michael Volle & Miina-Liisa Värelä Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2026-27 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances for the season.
Yannick Nezet-Seguin will conduct Elza van den Heever and the Met Orchestra in a program of Strauss music.
Performance Date: Sept. 1, 2026
Yannick Nezet-Seguin and Joyce DiDonato team up with the Met Orchestra for Mahler and Kaija Saariaho.
Performance Date: Sept. 2, 2026
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Wiebke Lehmkuhl.
Performance Dates: Sept. 9 & 10, 2026
The Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess” will be presented by the Cape Town Opera and conducted by Enrique Mazzola. Nonhlanhla Yende, Siyabulela Ntlale, Conroy Scott, Lukhanyo Moyake, and Brittany Smith.
Performance Date: Sept. 11, 2026
Les Metaboles (Les Métaboles) performs works by Raymond Murray Schafer and Veljo Tormis.
Performance Date: Sept. 24, 2026
Roomful of Teeth present a program of music by Peter S. Shin and Gabriel Kahane.
Performance Date: Sept. 25, 2026
The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Jaap van Zweden perform the second act of “Tristan und Isolde” with Stuart Skelton, Miina-Liisa Värelä, Kwangchul Youn, Iain Paterson, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, and Alexander Marev.
Performance Date: Sept. 25, 2026
La Tempête perform Claudio Monteverdi’s “Vêpres de la Vierge.
Performance Date: Sept. 26, 2026
François-Philippe Barbolosi, Laurent Barbolosi, Claude Bellagamba, and Jérôme Casalonga perform chants.
Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2026
The Ensemble Virêvolte alongside Aurore Bucher, Yann Rolland, Martial Pauliat, Igor Bouin, Jérémie Arcache, and Pierre Cussac perform works by Alain Bashung, Georges Brassens, Benjamin Britten, Brigitte Fontaine, Les Frères Jacques, Philippe Katerine, Luis Mariano, Francis Poulenc, Henry Purcell, and Camille Saint-Saëns.
Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2026
Simon Halsey conducts the Orchestre de Paris in Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” Soloists include Emy Gazeilles, Anthony Gregory, and Yannick Debus.
Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2026
Martha Argerich, Iddo Bar-Shai, and Magdalena Kožená team up for a program of music by Debussy and Ravel, Schubert, and Schumann.
Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2026
Les Arts Florissants under William Christie with Solistes des Arts Florissants perform music by Rameau and Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville.
Performance Date: Sept. 28, 2026
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, and Golda Schultz lead a program of works by Shostakovich and Strauss.
Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2026
The Orchestre de Paris under Esa-Pekka Salonen will take on Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” with Karen Cargill and Andrew Staples. The concert also features Iris Scialom’s interpretation of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4.
Performance Dates: Oct. 7 & 8, 2026
Salomé Gasselin and Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian lead a program of music by John Dowland, Tobias Hume, and Henry Purcell.
Performance Date: Oct. 7, 2026
Sophie Klussmann and Hopkinson Smith perform music by John Dowland.
Performance Date: Oct. 8, 2026
The music of John Dowland will be performed by the Ensemble Jupiter, Thomas Dunford , Mélissa Petit, Hugh Cutting, Thomas Hobbs, and Florian Störtz, among others.
Performance Date: Oct. 9, 2026
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic and the Orfeo Catala in music by John Adams, Zosha Di Castri, and Prokofiev.
Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2026
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie and Audi Jugendchorakademie under Jérémie Rhorer perform Verdi’s “Requiem.” Soloists include Agnieszka Rehlis, Andrei Danilov, and William Thomas.
Performance Date: Oct. 11, 2026
Händel’s “Riccardo primo” will be performed by Les Arts Florissants under Paul Agnew with a cast that includes Jakub Józef Orlinski, Mélissa Petit, Juliette Mey, Andreas Wolf, Hugh Cutting, and Alex Rosen.
Performance Date: Oct. 18, 2026
The Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä will perform Berlioz’s “Roméo et Juliette” with Marianne Crebassa and Jean Teitgen.
Performance Dates: Oct. 21 & 22, 2026
Jordi Savall conducts “Le Concert des Nations” in an all-Brahms program with soloists Lina Johnson and Matthias Winckhler.
Performance Date: Oct. 23, 2026
The Paris Mozart Orchestra will perform alongside mezzo-soprano Floriane Hasler in music by Chopin, Viardot, Macé, and Beethoven.
Performance Date: Nov. 7, 2026
The Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon perform works by Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Mozart, and Michael Haydn with soloists Sabine Devieilhe, Xenia Puskarz Thomas, Kieran Carrel, and Huw Montague Rendall.
Performance Date: Nov. 10, 2026
Claudio Monteverdi’s “Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Madrigaux” will be performed by Les Arts Florissants under William Christie with soloists Paul Agnew, Ana Vieira Leite, Rebecca Leggett, Mélodie Ruvio, Bastien Rimondi, and Edward Grint.
Performance Date: Nov. 25, 2026
Marin Alsop conducts Britten’s “War Requiem” with the Orchestre de Paris, Natalya Romaniw, Thomas Atkins, and Markus Werba.
Performance Dates: Nov. 26 & 27, 2026
Daniel Harding and Rachel Willis-Sørensen lead a Strauss and Brahms concert with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Performance Date: Nov. 30, 2026
Adèle Charvet and Florian Caroubi perform music by Henriëtte Bosmans, Nadia Boulanger, Marguerite Canal, Hedwige Chrétien, Marie Damaschino, Madeleine Dubois, Marie Jaëll, Madeleine Lemariey, Poldowski, and Rita Strohl.
Performance Date: Dec. 4, 2026
Le Concert d’Astrée – Choeur et Orchestre under Emmanuelle Haïm will lead Händel’s “Messiah” with soloists Lucy Crowe, Carlo Vistoli, Lunga Eric Hallam, and Ashley Riches.
Performance Date: Dec. 5, 2026
Ton Koopman leads the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and residents of the Académie de l’Opéra de Paris in Mozart’s “Requiem.”
Performance Date: Dec. 6, 2026
Il Pomo d’Oro, Mélissa Petit, and Jakub Józef Orlinski perform Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater.”
Performance Date: Dec. 8, 2026
Marc Mauillon perform music by Georges Aperghis, Bernard de Vendadorn, Blanche de Castille, Lorenzo da Firenze, Jehan de Lescurel, Guillaume de Machaut, Gratiosus de Padua, Philippe Leroux, Meredith Monk, and Giacinto Scelsi.
Performance Date: Dec. 11, 2026
Les Musiciennes du Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya under Jordi Savall perform music by Vivaldi with soloists Jaia Niborski, Elionor Martinez, Lara Morger, Mercè Bruguera, and Anastasiia Erofeeva.
Performance Date: Dec. 12, 2026
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Gwendoline Blondeel, Moritz Kallenberg, Bastien Rimondi, and Callum Thorpe lead “Acis et Galatée.”
Performance Date: Dec. 15, 2026
Works by Madeleine Dring, Armande de Polignac, Florence Price, Marguerite Roesgen-Champion, and Susan Spain-Dun will be performed by Gabriel Bianco, Lucile Boulanger, David Kadouch, Pierre Fouchenneret, Théo Fouchenneret, Manon Galy, Marie-Laure Garnier, Léa Hennino, Marielou Jacquard, Anastasie Lefebvre De Rieux, Constance Luzzati, Héloïse Luzzati, Fiona McGown, Raphaëlle Moreau, Célia Oneto Bensaid, Marie Perbost, Sandrine Piau, Vanessa Wagner, and Tanguy de Williencourt.
Performance Date: Dec. 15, 2026
The Orchestre National d’Île-de-France under Hervé Niquet will perform music by Leroy Anderson, Henri Betti, George Gershwin, Charles Gounod, Reynaldo Hahn, Louis-Ferdinand Hérold, Victorin Joncières, Louiguy Auguste Mermet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Offenbach, Colette Renard and Roger Roger. Marie Perbost is the soloist.
Performance Date: Dec. 18, 2026
John Adams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in his music with Russell Thomas as the soloist.
Performance Dates: Jan. 15 & 16, 2027
Marielou Jacquard performs works by Amy Beach, Marcelle de Manziarly, Poldowski, Henriette Puig-Roget, Marguerite Roesgen-Champion, Ethel Smyth, Charlotte Sohy, Rita Strohl, Jane Vieu and Grace Williams. The soprano will be accompanied by Clémence de Forceville, Violaine Despeyroux, Héloïse Luzzati, Anastasie Lefebvre De Rieux, Constance Luzzati, and Rodolphe Théry.
Performance Date: Jan. 15, 2027
Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de perles” will star Manon Lamaison, Sahy Ratia, Önay Köse, and Louis Morvan. Joshua Weilerstein conducts the Orchestre National de Lille.
Performance Date: Jan. 17, 2027
Philippe Herreweghe conducts Bach’s “Mass in B Minor” with soloists Marie Luise Werneburg, Yerin Mira, Alex Potter, Guy Cutting, and Matthias Lika.
Performance Date: Jan. 26, 2027
Les Arts Florissants under Paul Agnew perform songs by Purcell with soloists Georgia Burashko, Bastien Rimondi, and Sreten Manojlovic.
Performance Date: Feb. 9, 2027
Heinz Holliger’s “Scardanelli-Zyklus” will be performed with the Ensemble intercontemporain and Chœur de la Radio Lettone under the direction of Thierry Fischer. Sophie Cherrier is the flutist.
The Orchestre Pasdeloup under Johanna Malangré will perform music by Price, Gershwin, and Augusta Read-Thomas. Soprano Mariamielle Lamagat will be the soloist.
Performance Date: Feb. 20, 2027
Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” will star Nadine Sierra, Levy Sekgapane, Önay Köse, and Alessio Cacciamani. The Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opéra de Bordeaux will be conducted by Ana María Patiño-Osorio
Performance Date: Feb. 21, 2027
Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St John Passion” will star Mari Eriksmoen, James Hall, Thomas Walker, Mark Milhofer, and Yannick Debus. The B’Rock Orchestra and Zürcher Sing-Akademie will be conducted by René Jacobs.
Performance Date: Feb. 23, 2027
Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” will be conducted by Daniel Harding and will showcase the Orchestre de Paris, Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris, Liv Redpath, Svetlina Stoyanova, Andrew Staples, Christian Gerhaher, and Richard Wilberforce.
Performance Dates: Feb. 25 & 26, 2027
Benjamin Bernheim joins pianist Carrie-Ann Matheson for music by Bizet, Massenet, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky
Performance Date: March 3, 2027
Marielou Jacquard and Lucile Richardot join Célia Oneto Bensaid for an evening of Cabaret.
Performance Date: March 7, 2027
Christopher Lowrey joins the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris for music by Bernstein, Britten, Oldham, and Sibelius.
Performance Date: March 7, 2027
Lucile Richardot and Anne de Fornel join Trio SR9 for songs by Jeanne Cherhal, Albin de la Simone, No Doubt, Véronique Sanson, Anne Sylvestre, and Boris Vian.
Performance Date: March 8, 2027
Myriam Marzouki directs Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” with the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris and Tito Ceccherini conducting. The cast will includes students from the conservatory.
Performance Dates: March 9-13, 2027
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Zurich Opera in Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” with Michael Volle, Daniel Schmutzhard, Johan Krogius, Klaus Florian Vogt, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Noa Beinart, Christopher Purves, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Mika Kares, David Leigh, Kathrin Zukowski, Marcela Rahal, and Siena Licht Miller.
Performance Date: March 9, 2027
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Zurich Opera in Wagner’s “Die Walküre” with Klaus Florian Vogt, Mika Kares, Michael Volle, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, and Camilla Nylund.
Performance Date: March 10, 2027
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Zurich Opera in Wagner’s “Siegfried” with Klaus Florian Vogt, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Michael Volle, Christopher Purves, David Leigh, Noa Beinart, Camilla Nylund, Kathrin Zukowski.
Performance Date: March 12, 2027
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Zurich Opera in Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung” with Klaus Florian Vogt, Daniel Schmutzhard, Christopher Purves, Mika Kares, Camilla Nylund, Iulia Maria Dan, Agnieszka Rehlis, Dominika Stefańska, Siena Licht Miller, Dorothea Herbert, Kathrin Zukowski, Marcela Rahal, and Siena Licht Miller.
Performance Date: March 14, 2027
“St Matthew Passion” will be presented with Sir Simon Rattle and the Freiburger Barockorchester starring Reinoud Van Mechelen, Tomáš Král, Roderick Williams, Miriam Feuersinger, and Magdalena Kožená.
Performance Date: March 13, 2027
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie will perform Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” with Ernesto Petti, Olga Peretyatko, Aude Extrémo, and Murat Karahan. Jérémie Rhorer conducts.
Performance Date: March 16, 2027
The Orchestre National d’Île-de-France under Case Scaglione will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with soloist Justina Gringyté.
Performance Date: March 22, 2027
William Christie and Les Arts Florissants lead Luigi Rossi’s Oratorio per la Settimana Santa.
Performance Date: March 22, 2027
Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Nacional de Catalunya under Jordi Savall perform music by Michel-Richard de Lalande, Georg Friedrich Haendel, and Arvo Pärt.
Soloists include Jaia Niborski, Anna Piroli, Lara Morger, David Tricou, Ferran Mitjans, and Mauro Borgioni.
Performance Date: March 23, 2027
Camila Mandillo and João Casimiro Almeida performs works by George Crumb, Olivier Messiaen and Kaija Saariaho.
Performance Date: March 25, 2027
Pygmalion – chœur et orchestre, Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, and NFM Choir under Raphaël Pichon perform works by Stravinsky, Honegger, Beethoven, Ives, and Schönberg.
Performance Dates: March 25 & 26, 2027
The Ensemble intercontemporain joins the Chœur de chambre Les Éléments for Josquin Desprez, Carlo Gesualdo, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Joan Magrané Figuera. Pierre Bleuse conducts.
Performance Date: March 26, 2027
Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” will be performed by Leonardo García-Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea. Soloists include Valerio Contaldo, Alex Rosen, Sophie Junker, Hugh Cutting, Laurence Kilsby, and Andreas Wolf.
Performance Date: March 30, 2027
La Tempête will perform works by William Byrd, Roland de Lassus, Frank Martin, Cristóbal de Morales, Knut Nystedt, Marbrianus de Orto, Arvo Pärt, and Thomas Tallis with Simon-Pierre Bestion directing.
Performance Date: March 31, 2027
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Jaap van Zweden will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and Michaela Schuster.
Performance Date: April 2, 2027
Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset perform Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Aricie.” Reinoud Van Mechelen, Marie Lys, Aphrodite Patoulidou, Christian Immler, Juliette Mey, Neima Fischer, Philippe Estèphe, Lysandre Châlon, Kieran White, Jordan Mouaïssia, and Adrien Fournaison star.
Performance Date: April 11, 2027
Les Arts Florissants and William Christie dedicate an entire program to Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Performance Date: April 26, 2027
The Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé perform Bach Cantatas. The soloists are Caroline Weynants, Blandine De Sansal, Rory Carver, Sébastien Myrus, and Lysandre Châlon.
Performance Date: April 29, 2027
The Divertimento, Chœur Sorbonne Université, and Chœur de l’Université Paris Sciences et Lettres showcase the music of Ella Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, William Grant Still, Lil Hardlin Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Florence Price, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Nina Simone, and George Walker.
Performance Date: May 10, 2027
The Ensemble intercontemporain under Susanna Mälkki will be joined by Lotte Betts-Dean in music by Bertrand, Djordjević, Schönberg, and Birtwistle.
Performance Date: May 13, 2027
Sandrine Piau and lutenist Benjamin Narvey bring to life music written by and for Luise Gottsched. The repertoire includes music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Adolf Hasse, Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner, and Silvius Leopold Weiss.
Performance Date: May 13, 2027
Les Arts Florissants and Paul Agnew lead a program of music by Johann Hermann Schein, Heinrich Schütz, and Claudio Monteverdi.
Performance Date: May 18, 2027
The Orchestre de Paris and Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä perform Stravinsky.
Performance Date: May 27, 2027
The Ensemble près de votre oreille, Anaïs Bertrand, Jean-Christophe Lanièce, Angélique Mauillon, Simon Waddell, and Robin Pharo join forces for Gabriel Bataille, Antoine Boësset, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, François Dufaut, Gautier le Vieux, Pierre Guédron, and René Mézengeau.
Performance Date: May 28, 2027
Karen Vourc’h and Dima Bawa join forces for music by Henri Duparc, Hanns Eisler, Komitas, Felix Mendelssohn, Claudio Monteverdi, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, and Kurt Weill.
Performance Date: May 29, 2027
“Viva Verdi!” will showcase the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Choeurs des filières Voix des Conservatoires d’Île-de-France, and Alizé Léhon.
Performance Date: May 30, 2027
The Orchestre de Paris, Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris, Chœur de jeunes de l’Orchestre de Paris, and Choeur d’enfants de l’Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. Soloists include Hailey Clark, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Miriam Kutrowatz, Jennifer Johnston, and Mika Kares.
Performance Dates: June 3 & 4, 2027
The Orchestre National d’Île-de-France and Raphaël Merlin join soloists Amel Brahim-Djelloul and Dahmane Khalfa for Djamel Allam, Idir, and Thomas Keck.
Performance Date: June 12, 2027
