Corinne Winter, Federica Lombardi, Alex Esposito, Freddie De Tommaso, Gregory Kunde, Angel Blue & Serena Sáenz Lead Palau de Les Arts’ 2025-26 Season

By Francisco Salazar

The Palau de les Arts has announced its 2025-26 season.

Lorenzo Viotti conducts Gounod’s “Faust” in a production by Johannes Erath. Iván Ayón-Rivas, Alex Esposito, Ruth Iniesta, Florian Sempey, and Ekaterine Buachidze.

Performance Dates: Oct. 3-15, 2025


Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “La descente d’Orphée aux enfers” will star Josipa Bilić, Camille Chopin, Sarah Fleiss, Tanaquil Ollivier, Sydney Frodsham, Richard Pittsinger, Bastien Rimondi, Attila Varga-Tóth, Oliver Bergeron, and Kevin Arboleda Oquendo. William Christie conducts the production by Marie Lambert-Le Bihan and Stéphane Facco.

Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2025


“Enemigo del pueblo” by Francisco Coll will star José Antonio López, Moisés Marín, Brenda Rae, Isaac Galán, and Marta Fontanals-Simmons. Àlex Rigola directs.

Performance Date: Nov. 5-9, 2025


Germán Alcántara, Federica Lombardi, Alex Esposito, Freddie De Tommaso, and Maria Barakova star in Verdi’s “Luisa Miller.” Sir Mark Elder conducts the production by Valentina Carrasco.

Performance Date: Dec. 10-22, 2025


Mattia Olivieri, Corinne Winters, Ksenia Dudnikova, Dmitry Korchak, Giorgi Manoshvili, Alison Kettlewell, and Margarita Nekrasova star in Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” Timur Zangiev conducts the production by Laurent Pelly.

Performance Date: Jan. 20-29, 2026


Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Marina Monzó, Sara Mingardo, Arianna Vendittelli, Cameron Shahbazi, Bryan Sala, and Lora Grigorieva star in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto.” Marc Minkowski conducts the production by Vincent Boussard.

Performance Dates: Feb. 28-March 13, 2026


Aude Extrémo, Ana Maria Labin, Yuriy Mynenko, Alina Wunderlin, and Edward Jowle lead Handel’s “Orlando.” Marc Minkowski conducts the concert performance.

Performance Date: March 22, 2026


Vida Miknevičiūtė leads Strauss’ “Salome” with John Daszak, Michaela Schuster, Nicholas Brownlee, and Joel Prieto. James Gaffigan conducts the production by Damiano Michieletto.

Performance Dates: April 25-May 9, 2026


Sir Mark Elder conducts Puccini’s “Turandot” in a production by Àlex Ollé. Ekaterina Semenchuk, Liang Li, Gregory Kunde, and Carolina López Moreno star.

Performance Dates: June 3-16, 2026

Zarzuela 

The company will present “Un misterio de sainete o zarzuela a la cazuela” with Enrique Viana directing.

Performance Date: Feb. 19-22, 2026


Lied

Michael Spyres and Mathieu Pordoy perform music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Ferenc Liszt, and Hector Berlioz.

Performance Date: Nov. 16, 2025


Angel Blue and Bryan Wagorn perform Francis Poulenc, Lee Hoiby, Richard Strauss, George Gershwin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Bruce Adolphe, and Jake Heggie.

Performance Date: Dec. 14, 2025


Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber perform Lieder by Franz Schubert.

Performance Date: Jan. 17, 2026


Nadine Sierra and Bryan Wagorn perform arias and songs by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Gustave Charpentier.

Performance Date: March 26, 2026


Katharina Konradi and Julius Drake lead a program that includes Eduard Toldrà, Ferenc Liszt, Franz Schubert, Antón García Abril, Enric Granados, and Fernando Obradors

Performance Date: April 26, 2026


Elsa Dreisig and Joseph Middleton lead music by Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, Erik Satie, and Reynaldo Hahn.

Performance Date: May 24, 2026


Concerts 

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in a program of Mahler and Mozart. Sasha Cooke and David Butt Philip are the soloists.

Performance Dates: Oct. 23 & 24, 2025


Sir Mark Elder conducts Hector Berlioz’s “L’enfance du Christ” with Kate Lindsey, Gordon Bintner, William Thomas, and Matthew Rose.

Performance Dates: Feb. 6 & 7, 2026


Gustavo Gimeno conducts Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky with Marianne Crebassa.

Performance Date: June 18, 2026


Baroque 

Serena Sáenz joins Vespres d’Arnadí and Dani Espasa for music by Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Georg Friedrich Händel.

Performance Date: April 9, 2026


María Espada and Manuel Minguillón join forces for music by Tarquinio Merula, Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Giulio Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, and Alessandro Grandi.

Performance Date: April 23, 2026


Jone Martínez joins Il Fervore and conductor Jesús Merino for works by Alessandro Scarlatti.

Performance Date: April 30, 2026


Eva Zaïcik leads a program with Les Epopées and Stéphane Fuget featuring music by Michelangelo Rossi, Francesco Cavalli, Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro
Piccinini, Barbara Strozzi, Luigi Rossi, Giovanni Felice Sances, Ricardo Rognoni, Claudio Merula, Domenico Mazzochi, and Andrea Falconieri.

Performance Date: May 28, 2026

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