The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced its 2025-26 Season.

Opera

The season opens with Wagner’s “Lohengrin” with Michele Mariotti conducting a production by Damiano Michieletto. The cast includes Dmitry Korchak, Clive Bayley, Tómas Tómasson, Ekaterina Gubanova, Andrei Bondarenko, and Jennifer Holloway.

Performance Dates: Nov. 27-Dec. 7, 2025, 2025

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Davide Livermore’s production of Puccini’s “La bohème” returns with Carolina López Moreno, Maria Agresta, Yaritza Véliz, Saimir Pirgu, Francesco Demuro, and René Barbera.

Jader Bignamini and Alessandro Palumbo rotate at the podium.

Performance Dates: Jan. 14-25, 2026

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Luca Ronchetti’s “Inferno” will be directed by David Hermann with Tito Ceccherini conducting. The cast will include Laura Catrani, Leonardo Cortellazzi, Andreas Fischer, and Neue Vocalsolisten.

Performance Dates: Feb. 19-March 7, 2026

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Maxime Pascal conducts Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” with Anna Caterina Antonacci directing. The cast includes Axelle Fanyo (Ariadne), Tuomas Katajala (Bacchus), Ziyi Dai (Zerbinetta), Angela Brower (Der Komponist), and Adrian Eröd (Musiklehrer).

Performance Dates: March 1-10, 2026

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Johanna Wallroth (Bellezza), Ed Lyon (Tempo), Anna Bonitatibus (Piacere), and Raffaele Pe (Disinganno) star in Handel’s “Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” with Robert Carsen directing. Gianluca Capuano conducts.

Performance Dates: April 7-14, 2026

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Vittorio Grigolo and Nino Machaidze star in Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” with Daniel Oren conducting and Marta Crisolini Malatesta directing. Vannina Santoni (Juliette) and Duke Kim (Roméo) will alternate. The cast will be rounded out by Nicolas Courjal (Frère Laurent), Mihai Damian (Mercutio), Aya Wakizono (Stéphano), Valerio Borgioni (Tybalt), Raffaele Feo (Benvolio), Alessio Verna (Gregorio), Rocco Cavalluzzi (Le duc de Vérone), Christian Senn (Capulet), and Géraldine Chauvet (Gertrude).

Performance Dates: April 28-May 6, 2026

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Carlo Vistoli stars in Rossini’s “Tancredi” with Michele Mariotti conducting and Emma Dante directing. The production also stars Hasmik Torosyan, Enea Scala, and Luca Tittoto.

Performance Dates: May 19-29, 2026

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Ermonela Jaho, Nadine Sierra, and Ekaterina Bakanova lead Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Dmitry Korchak, Xabier Anduaga, Antonio Poli, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Luca Salsi, and Misha Kiria. Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducts Sfoai Coppola’s production.

Performance Dates: June 21-30, 2025

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Claus Guth directs Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” with Emmanuel Tjeknavorian conducting. The cast will include two casts featuring Germán Olvera, Markus Werba, Roberta Mantegna, Federica Guida, Erwin Schrott, Alessio Arduini, Martina Russomanno, Benedetta Torre, Elmina Hasan, Cecilia Molinari, Monica Bacelli, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Marcello Nardis, and Blagoj Nacoski.

Performance Dates: Sept. 15-23, 2026

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Tatjana Gürbaca directs Verdi’s “Falstaff” with Michele Mariotti conducting. Luca Salsi, George Petean, Maria Agresta, Ekaterine Buachidze, Violeta Urmana, Marina Monzò, Yijie Shi, Carlo Bosi, Paolo Antognetti, and Gabriele Sagona.

Performance Dates: Oct. 13-Nov. 1, 2026

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Concerts 

Emmanuel Resche-Caserta conducts the Orchestra Nazionale Barocca dei Conservatori and soprano Marie Perbost in a program of music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, and Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Performance Date: March 5, 2026

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Michele Mariotti conducts Marina Rebeka in Strauss’ Four Last Songs. The program also includes Schubert’s Symphony No. 9.

Performance Date: May 28, 2026

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Michele Mariotti conducts Rossini’s “Petite messe solennelle” with Dmitry Korchak, Hasmik Torosyan, Carlo Vistoli, and Michele Pertusi.

Performance Date: Oct. 17 & 22, 2026

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Before Opening 

Puccini’s “Tosca” will be performed by Eleonora Buratto (Tosca), Jonathan Tetelman (Cavaradossi), and Luca Salsi (Scarpia). Alessandro Talevi conducts.

Performance Date: Nov. 1, 2025