The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced its 2023-24 season featuring a wide array of repertoire.

Opera

Maria Agresta, Saioa Hernández, and Maria Pia Piscitelli star in Cherubini’s “Medea“ alongside Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Silvia Tro Santafé, Jongmin Park, Alexander Vinogradov, Sara Blanch, Marina Monzó, Enea Scala, and Francesco Demuro. Ivor Bolton conducts the production by Paco Azorín.

Performance Dates: Sept. 19-Oct. 4, 2023

María Luisa Manchado Torres’ “La Regenta” will be performed in a new production by Bárbara Lluch. The work will star María Miro, David Oller, Vicenç Esteve, Cristian Díaz, Pablo García-López, María-Rey Joly, Anna Gomá, Laura Vila, and Gabriel Díaz. Jordi Francés conducts.

Performance Dates: Oct. 24-29, 2023

Elīna Garanča sings the title role of “Luisa Fernanda.” She is joined by María José Moreno, Ismael Jordi, and José Antonio López. Karel Mark Chichon conducts.

Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2023

Christophe Dumaux, Gabriel Díaz, Anna Prohaska, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli,  Anthony Roth Costanzo, Giulia Semenzato, and Florian Boesch star in Handel’s “Orlando.” Ivor Bolton and Francesc Prat conduct the production by Claus Guth.

Performance Dates: Oct. 31-Nov. 12, 2023

Haydn’s “Orlando Paladino” will star Emőke Baráth, Renato Dolcini, Alasdair Kent, Krystian Adam, Silvia Frigato, Josh Lovell, and Núria Rial.

Performance Date: Nov. 1, 2023

Łukasz Borowicz conducts Moniuszko’s “Halka” with Corinne Winters, Piotr Beczala, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Tomasz Kumiega, Tomasz Konieczny, Olga Syniakova, and Javier Povedano.

Performance Date: Nov. 9-11, 2023 

Nicola Luisotti and Christoph Koncz conduct Verdi’s “Rigoletto” in a new production by Miguel del Arco. Javier Camarena, Xabier Anduaga, John Osborn, Ludovic Tézier, Étienne Dupuis, Quinn Kelsey, Adela Zaharia, Julie Fuchs, Ruth Iniesta, Andrea Mastroni, Peixin Chen, Marina Viotti, Ramona Zaharia, and Martina Belli.

Performance Dates: Dec. 2, 2023-Jan.2, 2024

Monteverdi’s “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria” will be conducted by Emiliano González Toro and will star David Hansen, Nicolas Brooymans, Lysa Menu, Emoke Baráth, Fleur Barron, Alix Le Saux, Mathilde Etienne, Álvaro Zambrano, Christian Immler, Juan Sancho, Emiliano González Toro, Nicholas Scott, Fulvio Bettini, Zachary Wilder, and Anders Dahlin.

Performance Date: Dec. 4, 2023

Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” will star Huw Montague Rendall, Jacquelyn Stucker, Marina Viotti, Magnus Dietrich, Leon Košavić, Krešimir Špicer, and Alina Wunderlin. Marc Minkowski conducts.

Performance Date: Dec. 9, 2023

Albert Reiman’s “Lear” will make its Teatro Real premiere with Asher Fish conducting a production by Calixto Bieito. Bo Skovhus leads the cast that includes Torben Jürgens, Derek Welton, Michael Colvin, Kor-Jan Dusseljee, Lauri Vasar, Andrew Watts, Andreas Conrad, Ángeles Blancas, Erika Sunnegårdh, Susanne Elmark, and Ernst Alisch.

Performance Dates: Jan 26-Feb. 7, 2024

Cavalieri’s “Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo” will star Stefanie True, Raffaele Giordani, Massimo Lombardi, André Pérez Muíño, Jan Kullmann, Roberto Rilievi, Guglielmo Buonsanti, Estelle Lefort, Hugo Oliveira, and Zsuzsi Tóth.

Performance Dates: Jan. 27, 2024

Joyce DiDonato, Fatma Said, and Andrew Staples lead Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” with Maxim Emelyanychev conducting.

Performance Date: Feb. 4, 2024

Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” will star Xavier Sabata with  Jordi Francès conducting. 

Weinberg’s “The Passengers” will star Amanda Majeski, Gyula Orendt, Anna Gorbachyova, Lidia Vinyes-Curtis, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, and Nadezhda Karyazina. Mirga Gražinytè-Tyla conducts the production by David Pountney.

Performance Dates: March 1-24, 2024

Poulenc’s “La voix humaine” and Schoenberg’s “Erwartung” will be performed in a double bill. Ermonela Jaho will star in Poulenc’s work while Malin Byström will star in Schoenberg’s work. Jérémie Rhorer conducts the production by Christof Loy.

Performance Dates: March 17-28, 2024

Gaëlle Arquez, Julien Behr, Thomas Dolié, and Sabine Devieilhe star in Bizet’s “Carmen” with René Jacobs conducting.

Performance Date: March 27, 2024

Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” will be conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado with Laurent Pelly directing. The cast will include Gerald Finley, Jong Min Park, Leigh Melrose, Tomislav Mužek, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Nicole Chevalier, and Anna Lapkovskaja.

Performance Dates: April 24-May 25, 2024

Tomás Marco’s “Tenorio” makes its world premiere with a cast that includes Joan Martín-Royo, Juan Franciso Gatell, Adriana Gónzalez, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Cristina Faus, and Sandra Ferrández. Santiago Serrate conducts the production by Agrupación Señor Serrano.

Performance Dates: May 13-19, 2024

Caccini’s “La liberazione di Ruggiero” will star Vivica Genaux, Lidia Vinyes-Curtis, Jone Martínez, Sebastià Peris, and Francisco Fernández-Rueda. Aarón Zapico conducts the prodiction by Blanca Li.

Performance Dates: June 4-9, 2024

Charpentier’s “Medea” will be conducted by William Christie and will star Véronique Gens, Emmanuelle de Negri, Reinoud van Mechelen, Lisandro Abadie, Cyril Costanzo, Marc Mauillon, Ana Vieira Leitem, and Élodie Fonnard.

Performance Dates: June 6-10, 2024

Saioa Hernández, Alexandra Kurzak, Ailyn Pérez, and Lianna Haroutounian share the title role of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” They will be joined by Silvia Beltrami, Nino Surguladze, Gemma Coma-Alabert, Matthew Polenzani, Charles Castronovo, Michael Fabiano, Leonardo Capalbo, Lucas Meachem, Gabriel Bermúdez, Gerardo Bullón, and Luis Cansino. Nicola Luisotti and Luis Miguel Méndez conduct the production by Damiano Michieletto.

Performance Dates: June 30-July 24, 2024

Concerts 

Franco Fagioli performs music by Mozart and Castrati with Jan Tomas Adamus conducting.

Performance Date: Nov. 7, 2023 

Riccardo Frizza leads Sondra Radvanovsky in “The Tudor Queens” concert.

Performance Date: Jan. 6, 2024

Lise Davidsen sings music by Verdi, Beethoven, Strauss, and Wagner with José Miguel Pérez-Sierra.

Performance Date: Jan. 7, 2024

Nadine Sierra and Pretty Yende join forces for a program of music by Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Délibes, Offenbach, and Giménez. Pablo Mielgo conducts.

Performance Date: April 25, 2024

Nina Stemme performs a Wagner program with Gustavo Gimeno.

Performance Date: May 26, 2024