(Credit: Javier del Real/Salva Lopez)

The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées has announced its 2021-22 season featuring some of the biggest stars in the world, staged operas, and concert operas.

Staged Opera 

Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande“ will be conducted by François-Xavier Roth and directed by Eric Ruf. Patricia Petibon, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Jean Teitgen, and Lucile Richardot star.

Performance Dates: Oct. 5-15, 2021

Mireille Delunsch, Vannina Santoni, Alisa Kolosova, Jean-François Borras, Jean-Sébastien Bou, and Jean Teitgen star in Tchaikovksy’s “Eugene Onegin“ with Orchestre National de France and Chœur de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux. Karina Canellakis conducts Stéphane Braunschweig’s production.

Performance Dates: Nov. 10-19, 2021

Offenbach’s “La Vie Parisienne” will be directed by Christian Lacroix and conducted by Romain Dumas. The production will star Jodie Devos, Florie Gauthier-Valiquette, Rodolphe Briand, Flannan Obé, Marc Mauillon, Laurent Deleuil, Alexandre Duhamel, Franck Leguérinel, Sandrine Buendia, Marion Grange, Aude Extrémo, Eléonore Pancrazi, Eric Huchet, Damien Bigourdan, Philippe Estèphe, Laurent Kubla, Elena Galitskaya, Louise Pingeot, Marie Kalinine, Ingrid Perruche, Carl Ghazarossian, Artavazd Sargsyan, and Caroline Meng.

Performance Dates: Dec. 21, 2021-Jan. 9, 2022

Sahy Ratia, Diego Godoy, Florent Karrer, Ivan Thirion, Emy Pegliasco, Jeanne Gérard, Nathanaël Tavernier, Marion Lebègue, Edwin Fardini, Hugo Santos, and Benoît-Joseph Meier star Verdi’s “Rigoletto“ with Victor Jacob conducting and Manuel Renga directing.

Performance Dates: Feb. 4-18, 2022

Mozart’s “Così fan tutte“ is set to star Vannina Santoni, Gaëlle Arquez, Cyrille Dubois, Florian Sempey, Laurent Naouri, and Anna Aglatova. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts with Laurent Pelly directing.

Performance Dates: March 9-20, 2022

Händel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” is set to be conducted by Philippe Jaroussky and directed by Damiano Michieletto. Gaëlle Arquez, Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Lucile Richardot, Carlo Vistoli, Francesco Salvadori, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, and Adrien Fournaison star

Performance Dates: May 11-22, 2022

Opera in Concert

Patricia Petibon leads Massenet’s “Manon“ with Saimir Pirgu, Artur Ruciński, and Nicolas Testé. Daniele Rustioni | directionconducts the Orchestre and Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Lyon.

Performance Date: Sept. 15, 2021

Philippe Jaroussky, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux star in Händel’s “Radamisto” alongside Emőke Baráth, Zachary Wilder, Renato Dolcini, Anna Bonitatibus, and Alicia Amo. Il Pomo d’Oro is conducted by Francesco Corti.

Performance Date: Oct. 8, 2021

Monetverdi’s “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” is set to star Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Rihab Chaieb, Emőke Baráth, Philippe Jaroussky, Zachary Wilder, Nahuel Di Pierro, Philippe Talbot, Fulvio Bettini, Álvaro Zambrano, Mathilde Etienne, Anthony León, Lauranne Oliva, Angelica Monje Torrez, Anders Dahlin, and Nicolas Brooymans.

I Gemelli will be conducted by Emiliano Gonzalez Toro.

Performance Date: Oct. 23, 2021

Händel’s “Theodora” is set to star Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, John Chest, and Paul Antoine Bénos-Djian. Il Pomo d’Oro will be conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.

Performance Date: Nov. 22, 2021

Janáček’s “Příhody lišky Bystroušky” will be performed by Elena Tsallagova, Roland Wood, Angela Brower, Elizabeth Cragg, Ella Taylor, Kitty Whately, Robert Murray, and William Thomas. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chœur de Radio France.

Performance Date: Nov. 24, 2021

Händel’s “Messiah” will be performed by Dorothee Mields, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Benedikt Kristjánsson, and Tobias Berndt with Orchestre et Chœur du Gaechinger Cantorey and conductor Hans Christoph Rademann.

Performance Date: Jan. 12, 2022

Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’amore” is set to star Jodie Devos, Cyrille Dubois, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, and Nicola Ulivieri. Francesco Lanzillotta conducts the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France and Chœur de chambre de Rouen.

Performance Date: Jan. 15, 2022

Pergolèsi’s Stabat Mater will be performed by Adèle Charvet and Jodie Devos with Le Concert de la Loge and conductor Julien Chauvin.

Performance Date: Jan. 25, 2022

Marina Rebeka, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Michael Spyres, and Riccardo Zanellato star in Verdi’s Requiem with Daniele Gatti conducting the Orchestre National de France and Chœur de Radio France.

Performance Dates: Feb. 3 & 5, 2022

Regula Mühlemann and Jean-Sébastien Bou lead Fauré’s Requiem. The Orchestre and Chœur du Concert Spirituelis conducted by Hervé Niquet.

Performance Date: Feb. 10. 2022

Vivaldi’s “L’Olimpiade” will be conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi and will star Carlo Vistoli, Chiara Skerath, Anna Aglatova, Benedetta Mazzucato, Ambroisine Bré, Riccardo Novaro, and Niall Anderson. The Ensemble Matheus and Chœur de chambre Mélisme will accompany.

Performance Date: Feb. 16, 2022

Chen Reiss, Elisabeth Kulman, Steve Davislim, and Hanno Müller-Brachmann lead Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with Christoph Eschenbach leading the Orchestre National de France and Chœur de Radio France.

Performance Date: March 31, 2022

Marais’ “Ariane et Bacchus” will be performed by Judith van Wanroij, Véronique Gens, Mathias Vidal, Hélène Carpentier, Marie Perbost, Nahuel Di Pierro, David Witczak, Tomislav Lavoie, Philippe Estèphe, Marine Lafdal-Franc, and Antonin Rondepierre. Hervé Niquet leads the Orchestre et Chœur Le Concert Spirituel and Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

Performance Date: April 4, 2022

Bach’s Johannes-Passion will star Lucy Crowe, Paula Murrihy, Hugo Hymas, and Georg Nigl with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Choir of the Enlightenment conducted by Mark Padmore.

Performance Date: April 6, 2022 

Ermonela Jaho stars in Massenet’s “Thaïs“ with Ludovic Tézier and Pene Pati. Pierre Bleuse conducts the Orchestre National de France and Chœur de Radio France.

Performance Date: April 9, 2022

Sonya Yoncheva sings her first “Anna Bolena“ in Donizetti’s opera. She is joined by Marianne Crebassa, Erwin Schrott, Enea Scala, and Matthieu Lécroart. Maurizio Benini conducts the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and Ensemble Lyrique Champagne-Ardenne.

Performance Date: April 11, 2022

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Orchestre de Rotterdam in Wagner’s “Das Rheingold“ with Michael Volle, Gerhard Siegel, Samuel Youn, Thomas Ebenstein, Denyce Graves, Stephen Milling, Mikhail Petrenko, Karen Cargill, Andrew Staples, Alan Held, Christiane Karg, Iris van Wijnen, and Maria Barakova.

Performance Date: April 23, 2022

Puccini’s Messa di Gloria will be performed by Charles Castronovo and Ludovic Tézier. Gustavo Gimeno leads the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Chœur Orfeó Català.

Performance Date: May 12, 2022

Marie-Frédérique Girod, Caroline Dangin-Bardot, Marie Pouchelon, David Tricou, Léo VermotDesroches, Antonin Rondepierre, Ryan Veillet, Etienne Bazola, René Ramos Premier, and Nicolas Brooymans headline Charpentier’s Te Deum with the Ensemble Correspondances led by Sébastien Daucé.

Performance Date: May 21, 2022

Franck’s “Hulda” will star Jennifer Holloway, Véronique Gens, Judith van Wanroij, Isabelle Druet, Marie Gautrot, Ludivine Gombert, Edgaras Montvidas, Jérôme Boutillier, Matthieu Lécroart, Artavazd Sargsyan, François Rougier, Sébastien Droy, Guilhem Worms, and Matthieu Toulouse. Gergely Madaras conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Chœur de chambre de Namur.

Performance Date: June 1, 2022

Marina Rebeka stars in Spontini’s “La Vestale” with Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Tassis Christoyannis, Aude Extrémo, and Nicolas Courjal. Les Talens Lyriques is conducted by Christophe Rousset.

Performance Date: June 22, 2022

Recitals and Concerts 

Benjamin Bernheim and Carrie-Ann Matheson perform an evening of music by Schumann, Chausson, and Poulenc.

Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2021

Philippe Jaroussky joins the Le Concert de la Loge and Julien Chauvin for music by Haendel and Porpora.

Performance Date: Nov. 20. 2021

Pretty Yende joins Les Frivolités parisiennes and Lorenzo Passerini for an evening of Nicolai, Mozart, Rossini, Hérold, Gounod, and Donizetti.

Performance Date: Nov. 29, 2021

Roberto Alagna, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Daniil Trifonov perform for les Diapason d’Or de l’année 2021 alonside the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and Louis Langrée. The program includes music by Elgar, Kanneh-Mason, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Wagner, and Beethoven.

Performance Date: Dec. 15, 2021

Philippe Jaroussky and Thibaut Garcia perform music by Dowland, Purcell, Giordani, Donizetti, Rossini, Schubert, Mozart, Fauré, Poulenc, Britten, Granados, and Ramírez.

Performance Date: Jan. 22, 2022

Elsa Dreisig sings a Mozart program with the Kammerorchester Basel and Baptiste Lopez.

Performance Date: Feb. 17, 2022

Emőke Baráth joins the Ensemble Artaserse and Philippe Jaroussky for music by Händel.

Performance Date: March 11, 2022

Jakub Józef Orliński and Il Pomo d’Oro perform Pérez, Fux, Zelenka, Galuppi, De Almeida, Reutter, Porsile, Schiassi, and Händel. Zefira Valova conducts.

Performance Date: April; 13, 2022

Véronique Gens and Sandrine Piau team up with Le Concert de la Loge and Julien Chauvin for music by Cherubini, Sacchini, Monsigny, Gossec, Edelmann, Gluck, J. C. Bach, Loiseau de Persuis, Grétry, and Dalayrac.

Performance Date: April 15, 2022

Les voix lyriques d’Afrique will showcase Leïla Brédent, Cyrielle Ndjki Nya, Lydie Pace, Kimmy Skota, Denyce Graves, Lawrence Brownlee, Patrick Kabongo and Blaise Malaba. The Orchestre de la Garde républicaine will be conducted by Sébastien Billard.

Performance date: April 16, 2022

Michael Spyres performs music by Mozart, Spontini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Lehár, and Offenbach with the Opera Fuoco and David Stern.

Performance Date: May 19, 2022

Jakub Józef Orliński joins pianist Michał Biel for music by Purcell, Schubert, Händel, Karłowicz, Naginski, and Copland.

Performance Date: May 30, 2022

Sumi Jo, Florian Sempey, Ki-Up Lee and Jeff Cohen join the Orchestre communiqué ultérieurement for music by Rossini, Dell’Acqua, Gounod, Massenet, Donizetti, Offenbach, Lecocq, and Lehár.

Performance Date: June 16, 2022

Radio Classique and Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France perform La folle soirée de l’opéra.

Performance Dates: June 24 & 25, 2022

Orchestras 

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen will be conducted by Jérémie Rhorer in a R. Strauss and Tchaikovsky program. Diana Damrau sings Strauss Lieder.

Performance Date: Sept. 18, 2021

Rachel Willis-Sørensen joins the Orchestre National de France and James Gaffigan in a Beethoven and R. Strauss concert.

Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2021

Alan Gilbert and Renée Fleming perform Messiaen and Bruckner alongside the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester.

Performance date: Oct. 22, 2021

The Le Concert d’Astrée celebrates its 20th anniversary with Emmanuelle Haïm conducting soloists Emőke Baráth, Emmanuelle de Negri, Sabine Devieilhe, Julie Fuchs, Patricia Petibon, Sandrine Piau, Lenneke Ruiten, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Isabelle Druet, Eva Zaïcik, Tim Mead, Mathias Vidal, Rolando Villazón, Anicio Zorzi Giustianini, Tassis Christoyannis, Nahuel Di Pierro, Laurent Naouri, Jarrett Ott, Mikhail Timoschenko, and Andrea Mastroni.

Performance Date: Nov. 12, 2021

The Ensemble Matheus celebrates its 30th anniversary with conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi and soloists Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Philippe Jaroussky, Florian Boesch, and Mohamed Abozekry. The concert will include music by Händel, Rossini, Verdi, Mozart, Vivaldi, and Monteverdi.

Performance Date: Nov. 27. 2021

Véronique Gens sings Lully, Charpentier, and Desmarest with the Ensemble Les Surprises and Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

Performance Date: Feb. 18, 2022

Cristian Măcelaru conducts the Orchestre National de France in music by R. Strauss, Wagner, Webern, and Schubert.  Matthias Goerne is the soloist.

Performance Date: March 17, 2022

The Orchestre des Champs-Elysées is joined by Philippe Herreweghe, Magdalena Kožená, and Andrew Staples for Mahler.

Performance Date: May 15, 2022

Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Lars Vogt and Ian Bostridge perform Mahler, Strauss, Fauré, and Britten.

Performance Date: Jan. 13, 2022

Hervé Niquet conducts Véronique Gens, Hélène Guilmette, Julien Dran, Tassis Christoyannis, Emmanuel Ceysson, Xavier Phillips, and Cédric Tiberghien in music by Chausson, Fauré, Debussy, Dubois, Massenet, and Saint-Saëns. 

Performance Date: June 29, 2022

Chamber Music 

Nicholas Angelich, Marianne Crebassa, Agnès Letestu, and Florent Melac perform alongside the Quatuor Modigliani in music by Schubert, Chausson, Turina, and Ravel.

Performance Date: June 28, 2022

Alex Potter joins Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Ecurie and Alexis Kossenko in music by Bach and Vivaldi.

Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2021