The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced its 2025-26 season.

Premieres

Maurizio Benini conducts Verdi’s “Rigoletto” in a new production by Barbara Wysocka. Bekhzod Davronov, Igor Golovatenko, Ludovic Tézier, Serena Sáenz, Nadine Sierra, Riccardo Fassi, and Elmina Hasan star.

Performance Dates: March 7-24, 2026 & July 28 & 31, 2026

Lotte de Beer directs a new production of Gounod’s “Faust” with Jonathan Tetelman, Piotr Beczała, Kyle Ketelsen, Olga Kulchynska, Ailyn Pérez, Florian Sempey, Boris Pinkhasovich, and Emily Sierra. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts.

Performance Dates: Feb. 8-27, 2026 & July 24 & 30, 2026

Tobias Kratzer directs a new production of Wagner’s “Die Walkure” with Joachim Bäckström, Ain Anger, Nicholas Brownlee, Irene Roberts, Miina-Liisa Värelä, and Ekaterina Gubanova. Vladimir Jurowski conducts.

Performance Dates: June 25-July 8, 2026

Stefano Montanari conducts Handel’s “Alcina” with Johanna Wehner directing. Jeanine De Bique, John Holiday, Avery Amereau, Jessica Niles, Carine Tinney, Julian Prégardien, and Gerrit Illenberger.

Performance Dates: July 13-28, 2026

Barrie Kosky will direct a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Die Nacht vor Weihnachten” with Violeta Urmana, Sergei Leiferkus, Dmitry Ulyanov, Elena Tsallagova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Sergey Skorokhodov, and Milan Siljanov.

Performance Dates: Nov 29-Dec. 22, 2025

Christiane Lutz will direct Hans Werner Henze’s “Die Englische Katze.” Katharina Wincor conducts a cast that includes Michael Butler, Daniel Vening, Iana Aivazian, Dafydd Jones, Samuel Stopford, Bruno Khouri, Elene Gvritishvili, Nontobeko Bhengu, Jess Dandy, Seonwoo Lee, Lucy Altus, Armand Rabot, and Zhe Liu.

Performance Dates: Nov 5, 2025-Jan. 30, 2026

The world premiere of Brett Dean’s opera “Of One Blood” will be held with Claus Guth directing. Vladimir Jurowski conducts the production starring Johanni van Oostrum, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Liam Bonthrone, Michael Butler, and Mahan Esfahani.

Performance Dates: May 10-June 29, 2026

Repertoire 

Daniele Rustioni conducts Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” in concert with Michael Nagy, Catriona Morison, David Butt Philip, Caroline Wettergreen, Krassimira Stoyanova, and Thomas Mole.

Performance Dates: Oct. 15 & 18, 2025

“Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci” will be revived in a production by Francesco Micheli. Antonino Fogliani conducts with Mascagni’s work starring Elīna Garanča, Vittorio Grigolo, Rosalind Plowright, Luca Salsi, and Elmina Hasan, and Leoncavallo’s work starring Ailyn Pérez, Yonghoon Lee, Luca Salsi, Andrés Agudelo, Thomas Mole, and Christian Rieger.

Performance Dates: Nov. 6-12, 2025

Henrik Nánási conducts Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Lisette Oropesa, Granit Musliu, and Luca Salsi.

Performance Dates: Nov. 11-20, 2025

Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment” will be revived with Pretty Yende, Dorothea Röschmann, Sunnyi Melles, Xabier Anduaga, and Misha Kiria. Antonino Fogliani conducts.

Performance Dates: Nov. 22-28, 2025

Humperdinck’s “Hansel und Gretel” will be conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and will star Thomas Mole, Juliane Banse, Rachael Wilson, Emily Sierra, Nikola Hillebrand, Erika Baikoff, Ya-Chung Huang, Kevin Conners, and Meg Brilleslyper.

Performance Dates: Dec. 5-12, 2025

Nicola Luisotti conducts Puccini’s “La Boheme” with Sonya Yoncheva, Aida Garifullina, Benjamin Bernheim, Stephen Costello, Andrzej Filończyk, German Olvera, and Roberto Tagliavini.

Performance Dates: Dec. 14-26, 2025

In time for the holiday season Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” will star Christof Fischesser, Bogdan Volkov, Martin Snell, Jessica Pratt, Erika Baikoff, Vitor Bispo, Elene Gvritishvili, and Kevin Conners. Christopher Moulds conducts.

Performance Dates: Dec. 27, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026

Rolando Villazón stars in J. Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” with Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Diana Damrau, Martin Winkler, John Holiday, Pavol Breslik, Konstantin Krimmel, Kevin Conners, and Mirjam Mesak. Zubin Mehta conducts.

Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2025-Jan. 10, 2025

Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducts Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Vladislav Sulimsky, Kang Wang, Georg Zeppenfeld, Ewa Płonka, and Elmina Hasan.

Performance Dates: Jan. 18-28, 2025

Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” will star Konstantin Krimmel, Christof Fischesser, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Julian Prégardien, Julia Kleiter, Michael Sumuel, Erika Baikoff, and Paweł Horodyski. Constantin Trinks conducts.

Performance Dates: Jan. 22-30, 2026

Eleonora Buratto stars in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Shannon Keegan, Riccardo Massi, and Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar. Eun Sun Kim conducts.

Performance Dates: Jan. 31-Feb. 6, 2026

Tomáš Hanus conducts Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” with Bálint Szabó, Juliane Banse, Emily Pogorelc, Martin Snell, Katja Pieweck, Ya-Chung Huang, Pavol Breslik, Martin Winkler, Kevin Conners, Erika Baikoff, and Paweł Horodyski.

Performance Dates: Feb. 7-17, 2026

Asmik Grigorian stars in Strauss’ “Salome” with Thomas Guggeis conducting. Gerhard Siegel, Claudia Mahnke, Wolfgang Koch, Joachim Bäckström, and Avery Amereau also star.

Performance Dates: Feb. 23-March 5, 2026

Yoel Gamzou conducts Beethoven’s “Fidelio” which will star Milan Siljanov, Ryan Speedo Green, Josef Wagner, Tomasz Konieczny, Benjamin Bruns, Matthew Polenzani, Johanni van Oostrum, Camilla Nylund, René Pape, Mirjam Mesak, Caspar Singh, and Samuel Stopford.

Performance Dates: March 8-15, 2025 & July 12- 18, 2026

Vladimir Jurowski conducts Strauss’ “Elektra” with Nina Stemme, Christine Goerke, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Charles Workman, and Iain Paterson. 

Performance Dates: March 18-27, 2026

Sebastian Weigle conducts Wagner’s “Parsifal” Peter Mattei, Bálint Szabó, Christof Fischesser, Clay Hilley, Josef Wagner, and Nina Stemme.

Performance Dates: April 5-11, 2026

Ailyn Pérez, Najmiddin Mavlyanov, and Ludovic Tézier star in Puccini’s “Tosca” with Marco Armiliato conducts.

Performance Dates: April 6-12, 2026

Andrea Battistoni conducts Verdi’s “Macbeth” with Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Gerald Finley, Roberto Tagliavini, Saioa Hernández, Asmik Grigorian, SeokJong Baek, Samuel Stopford, and Granit Musliu.

Performance Dates: April 7-13, 2026 & July 2 & 5, 2026

Aida Garifullina, Bekhzod Davronov, Thomas Mole, and Ambrogio Maestri star in Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” with Nicholas Carter conducting.

Performance Dates: April 19-24, 2026

Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Artur Rucinski, Judit Kutasi, and Piotr Beczała star in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” Andrea Battistoni conducts.

Performance Dates: April 26-May 9, 2026

Patrick Hahn conducts Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” with Gerald Finley, Diana Damrau, Joélle Harvey, Riccardo Fassi, Kate Lindsey, Juliane Banse, and Martin Snell.

Performance Dates: May 16-24, 2026

Sonya Yoncheva and Elena Stikhina star in Bellini’s “Norma” with Emily Sierra, Aigul Akhmetshina, Erwin Schrott, Roberto Tagliavini, and Najmiddin Mavlyanov. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts.

Performance Dates: May 22-June 2, 2026 & July 17 & 20, 2026

Regula Mühlemann, Jasmin Delfs, Ben Bliss, Jonas Hacker, Peter Rose, and Bernd Schmidt star in Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail.” Ivor Bolton conducts.

Performance Dates: May 31-June 5, 2026

Olga Maslova and Sondra Radvanovsky star in Puccini’s “Turandot” with Dmitry Ulyanov, Christian Van Horn, Jonas Kaufmann, Yonghoon Lee, Ermonela Jaho, and Golda Schultz. Zubin Mehta conducts.

Performance Dates: June 6-July 03, 2026

Aigul Akhmetshina stars in Bizet’s “Carmen” with Eleonora Buratto, Charles Castronovo, and Ryan Speedo Green. Karel Mark Chichon conducts.

Performance Dates: June 13-21, 2026

Antonino Fogliani conducts Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” with René Barbera, Konstantin Krimmel, Misha Kiria, Erika Baikoff, Emily Sierra, Isabel Leonard, and Erwin Schrott.

Performance Dates: July 9 & 11, 2026

Pavel Černoch, Malin Byström, Christof Fischesser, Jamie Barton, Tansel Akzeybek, and Meg Brilleslyper star in Dvorák’s “Rusalka.” Petr Popelka conducts.

Performance Dates: July 23 & 25, 2026

Daniele Rustioni conducts Weber’s “Freischütz” with Vitor Bispo, Bálint Szabó, Golda Schultz, Mirjam Mesak, Kyle Ketelsen, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Tareq Nazmi, and Thomas Lehman.

Performance Dates: July 26 & 29, 2026

Recitals 

There will be Concerts by the Opera Studio.

Performance Dates: Nov. 21-July 11, 2026

Jonas Kaufmann jons Helmut Deutsch for an evening of song.

Performance Date: July 13, 2026

Asmik Grigorian and Lukas Geniušas bring a recital to the Munich Opera Festival.

Performance Date: July 15, 2026

Ludovic Tézier performs alongside Julius Drake in recital.

Performance Date: July 20, 2026

Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch perform a recital.

Performance Dates: July 22, 2026

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber perform in recital.

Performance Dates: July 26 & 27, 2026

Concerts

Andrea Battistoni leads Opera fur alle with Ailyn Pérez and Jonathan Tetelman.

A Concert of the Opera Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Orchestra Academy of the Bayerische Staatsorchester.

The festival church service will feature soloists of the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Bayerische Staatsoper Chor

Performance Date: June 21, 2026

Stefano Montanari and Louise Alder perform a Baroque concert.

Performance Date: July 19, 2026

Chamber Concerts

Natalie Lewis performs a program of music by Copland, Respighi, and Schostakowitsch. 

Performance Date: Nov. 9, 2025

Edoardo Silvi and Jessica Niles lead a program of music by Bach, Händel, Roman, and Locatelli.

Performance Date: Nov. 30, 2025

Eirin Rognerud performs alongside chamber musicians in music by Dowland, Purcell, and Bach.

Performance Date: April 26, 2026

Claudio Andrés Estay GonzálezHanna-Elisabeth Müller leads a chamber concert with music by Zemlinsky, Wagner, and Schönberg.

Performance Date: July 16, 2026

Academy Concerts 

Pablo Heras-Casado and Christian Gerhaher lead a program of music by Berlioz’s orchestral songs “Les Nuits d’été,” Beethoven, and Brahms.

Performance Dates: April 17 & 18, 2026