Lise Davidsen, Angel Blue, Lisette Oropesa, Cecilia Bartoli, Charles Castronovo, David Butt Philip, Eleonora Buratto, Thomas Hampson & Camilla Nylund Lead Palau de les Arts’ 2026-27 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Palau de les Arts has announced its 2026-27 season.
Opera
“Estètica i massacre” will star Maria Patak, Carlos Varela, Pablo Meléndez, Álvaro Rodríguez, Claudia López, and Jorge Bosch. Carles Prat conducts the production by Oriol Pla.
Performance Dates: Sept. 17 & 18, 2026
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya stars in Bizet’s “Carmen” with Charles Castronovo, Ruth Iniesta, and Davide Luciano. Michele Spotti conducts the production by Ted Huffman.
Performance Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 15, 2026
Händel’s “Riccardo Primo” will star Hugh Cutting, Mélissa Petit, Juliette Mey, Alex Rosen, Andreas Wolf, and Paul Figuier. Paul Agnew conducts.
Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2026
David Butt Philip, Jennifer Davis, Ricarda Merbeth, Wolfgang Koch, Anthony Robin Schneider, and Kostas Smoriginas star in Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” Sir Mark Elder conducts the production by Damiano Michieletto.
Performance Dates: Dec. 10-22, 2026
Antonio Poli leads Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” with Anastasia Bartoli, Angela Brower, Rosalía Cid, and Ekaterine Buachidze. Stefano Montanari conducts the production by Rafael R. Villalobos.
George Petean, Jongmin Park, Gevorg Hakobyan, Eleonora Buratto, and Francesco Meli lead Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra.” Sir Mark Elder conducts the new production by Àlex Ollé.
Thomas Hampson, Marlis Petersen, Sung Min Song, Kathleen Kim, Joshua Bloom, Xiaomeng Zhang, and Lora Grigorieva star in John Adams’ “Nixon in China.” Cornelius Meister conducts Valentina Carrasco’s production.
Performance Dates: April 22-May 2, 2027
Ermonela Jaho headlines Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur” alongside Charles Castronovo, Clémentine Margaine, and Roberto Frontali. Maurizio Benini conducts.
Performance Dates: June 4-17, 2027
Ekaterina Semenchuk, Liang Li, Gregory Kunde, and Carolina López Moreno star in Puccini’s “Turandot.” Sir Mark Elder conducts.
Performance Dates: June 3-16, 2027
Zarzuela
Antoni Comas, Emilio Sánchez, Borja Quiza, Milagros Martín, Carmen Romeu, Ana San Martín, Gurutze Beitia, Sara Salado, Rafa Castejón, Alberto Frías, Mitxel Santamarina, and Ana Goya star in Breton’s “La verbena de la Paloma.”
Performance Dates: Nov. 2-8. 2026
Lied
Lawrence Brownlee and Giulio Zappa perform music by Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini, and Gaetano Donizetti.
Performance Date: Dec. 11, 2026
Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide perform a Schubert program.
Performance Date: Jan. 30, 2027
Georg Zeppenfeld and Gerold Huber perform a program consisting of works by Brahms and Schubert.
Performance Date: March 6, 2027
Songs by Antonín Dvořák, Lili Boulanger, Jean Sibelius, and Richard Strauss will be part of the recital by Camilla Nylund and Helmut Deutsch.
Performance Date: April 18, 2027
Sabine Devieilhe and Mathieu Pordoy perform music by Fanny Hensel, Alma Mahler, Ferenc Liszt, Mélanie Bonis, Marguerite Canal, and Claude Debussy.
Performance Date: June 3, 2027
Angel Blue and Bryan Wagorn perform a program of music by Francis Poulenc, Lee Hoiby, Richard Strauss, George Gershwin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Bruce Adolphe, and Jake Heggie.
Performance Date: June 6, 2027
Grans veus
Cecilia Bartoli and Lang Lang team up for works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Parisotti, Tommaso Giordani, Giovanni Paisiello, Georg Friedrich Händel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Gioachino Rossini, Georges Bizet, Léo Delibes, Ferenc Liszt, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Claude Debussy, and Ernesto De Curtis.
Performance Date: Nov. 22, 2026
Franco Fagioli performs baroque music with Gabetta Consort and Andrés Gabetta.
Performance Date: Nov. 28, 2026
Lise Davidsen and Christopher Maltman perform works by Wagner with Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and Sir Mark Elder.
Performance Date: Feb. 4, 2027
Lisette Oropesa performs from the bel canto repertoire with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and Corrado Rovaris.
Performance Date: March 11, 2027
Symphony
Christiane Karg, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, and Antonello Manacorda perform a Mahler and Berg program.
Performance Date: Dec. 18, 2026
Alice Coote, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner perform music by Mahler, Beethoven and Sibelius.
Performance Date: March 4, 2027
Marianne Crebassa joins the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana for works by Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky.
Performance Date: June 18, 2027
Maria Bengtsson and Eve-Maud Hubeaux perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and Philippe Jordan.
Performance Date: July 1, 2027
Baroque
Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford team up for a recital.
Performance Date: Oct. 21, 2026
Belén Vaquero, Bruno Campelo, Luken Munguira, and Víctor Cruz lead Scarlatti’s “Il martirio di Santa Teodosia.” Eduardo López Banzo conducts.
Performance Date: Jan. 27, 2027
Maite Beaumont leads a concert of music by Juan de Hidalgo, Antonio de Literes, Giovanni Zamboni, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, and Antonio Vivaldi. Juan Carlos de Mulder and Aldo Mata are also part of the evening.
Performance Date: April 1, 2027
Anett Fritsch, Julia Lezhneva, Lucile Richardot, and Krystian Adam perform Händel’s “Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.
Bruno de Sá joins the Harmonia del Parnàs and Marian Rosa Montagut.
Performance Date: April 22, 2027
Les Epopees will feature works 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. Eva Zaïcik and Stéphane Fuget join for the concert.
Performance Date: May 28, 2027
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