The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2025 season.

Opera 

The season opens with Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” with Riccardo Frizza conducting a cast that includes Carmen Giannattasio, Angelo Villari, and Claudio Sgura. Paul Curran directs. Another cast includes Ann Petersen, Amadi Lagha, and Gustavo Castillo.

Performance Dates: Jan. 24-30, 2025

Jessica Pratt, Giovanni Sala, Marko Mimica, and Lucas Meachem lead Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Daniel Oren conducting and  Jacopo Spirei directing. The production will also star Maxim Lisiin, Gilda Fiume, Matteo Desole, and Francesco Leone in another cast.

Performance Dates: Feb. 20-25, 2025

Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” will star Fabio Sartori, Anastasia Bartoli, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, and Silvia Beltrami. Riccardo Frizza conducts the production by Daniele Menghini. The second cast includes Matteo Lippi, Marta Torbidoni, and Chiara Mogini.

Performance Dates: April 13-19, 2025

Mariangela Sicilia, Francesca Di Sauro, Vito Priante, Giulia Mazzola, Marco Ciaponi, and Nahuel Di Pierro star in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” with Martijn Dendievel conducting the production by Alessandro Talevi. The production will also star Karen Gardeazabal, Laura Verrecchia, Francesco Salvadori, Francesco Castoro, Silvia Spessot, and Davide Giangregorio.

Performance Dates: May 25-June 1, 2025

Kevin Rhodes conducts Bernstein’s Candide, which Renato Zanella directs. Two casts will star in the production: Kévin Amiel, Tetiana Zhuravel, Bruno Taddia, and John Chest, and Marco Miglietta, Francesca Benitez, Valdis Jansons, and Michele Patti.

Performance Dates: July 4-12, 2025

Oksana Lyniv conducts Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” in Gabriele Lavia’s production. Gabriele Lavia, Paolo Antognetti, Teresa Romano, and Claudio Otelli star.

Performance Dates: Oct. 7-12, 2025

Puccini’s “La Bohème” will star Juliana Grigoryan, Stefan Pop, Giuliana Gianfaldoni, and Davide Luciano. Martijn Dendievel conducts the productin by Graham Vick. A second cast includes Karen Gardeazabal, Enkeleda Kamani, Antonino Siragusa, and Lodovico Filippo Ravizza.

Performance Dates: Nov. 23-30, 2025

Aya Wakizono, Paolo Bordogna, Dave Monaco, Michele Pertusi, and Nicola Alaimo star in Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” Renato Palumbo conducts the production by Federico Grazzini. Pieluigi D’Aloia, Giovanni Romeo, Chiara Tirotta, Stefan Astakhov, and Andrea Pellegrini also star.

Performance Dates: Dec. 19-30, 2025

Ring Cycle 

Wagner’s “Siegfried” will be conducted by Oksana Lyniv with a cast that includes Peter Wedd, Claudio Otelli, Sorin Coliban, and Sonja Šarić.

Performance Dates: June 13 & 15, 2025

Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung” will star Peter Wedd, Claudio Otelli, Ewa Vesin, Sonja Šarić, and Atala Schöck. Oksana Lyniv conducts.

Performance Dates: Oct. 24 & 26, 2025

Concerts 

Donato Renzetti conducts Cecilia Molinari and Paolo Bordogna in a program of music by Rossini and Brahms.

Performance Date: Jan. 12, 2025

Asher Fisch conducts scenes from “Der Rosenkavalier” with soloists Elsa Benoit, Stefanie Irányi, and Julia Kleiter.

Performance Date: Feb. 8, 2025

Hartmut Haenchen conducts Brahms’ Deutsche Requiem with Valentina Farcas, and Liviu Holender.

Performance Date: March 16, 2025

Riccardo Frizza conducts Schoenberg and Mahler with soloist Monica Bacelli.

Performance Date: March 28, 2025

Frédéric Chaslin conducts Poulenc and Brahms with soloists Sergej Aleksandrovič Krylov and Julie Cherrier Hoffmann.

Performance Date: May 6, 2025

Marco Angius conducts a program of music by Brahms, Solbiati, and Haydn.

Performance Date: June 20, 2025

Lorenzo Passerini and Pretty Yende join forces for an evening of arias.

Performance Date: Dec. 11, 2025