The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has announced its 2026 Festival Season, which will run between May 23 and June 28, 2026. In a statement, General Director Andrew Jorgensen said, “We are proud to present a compelling 2026 Festival Season that continues to balance beloved classics with contemporary stories. While our 50th Anniversary Season in 2025 was a powerful milestone, {…}
The Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – ACO has announced its 2026 season. The season opens with Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore” conducted by Ramón Tebar and directed by Daniele Piscopo. The cast will include Xabier Anduaga, Génesis Moreno, and Fernando Campero. Performance Dates: February 2026 Michael Fabiano stars in Verdi’s “Otello” with Erika Grimaldi and Amartuvshin Enkhbat. Carlo Montanaro {…}
The Teatro Regio di Parma has announced its 2026 season. Fabio Biondi conducts Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” in a production by Shirin Neshat. The production stars Carlo Vistoli, Francesca Pia Vitale, and Nadja Mchantaf. Performance Dates: Jan. 23-31, 2026 Dmitry Korchak, Carlo Lepore, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, and Giuliana Gianfaldoni star in Bellini’s “Norma.” Renato Palumbo conducts the production by Nicola Berloffa. Performance {…}
The Santa Fe Opera has announced its 2026 season. Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will open the season with a revival production directed by Melanie Bacaling. The cast will include Karen Chia-ling Ho, Stephen Costello, Jonathan Burton, Jarrett Ott, and Sun-Ly Pierce. John Fiore conducts. Performance Dates: July 3-29, 2026 Harry Bicket conducts Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a production by Christopher Luscombe. Josh Lovell, Joélle Harvey, Rainelle {…}
Glyndebourne Festival has announced its 2026 season. New Productions Puccini’s “Tosca” will be directed by Ted Huffman with two casts. Robin Ticciati conducts the first run with a cast that includes Caitlin Gotimer as Floria Tosca, Matteo Lippi as Mario Cavaradossi, and Vladislav Sulimsky as Baron Scarpia. Jordan de Souza conducts the second cast that includes Natalya Romaniw as Floria {…}
The Arena di Verona has announced its 2026 season. The season will open with a new production of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Performance Dates: June 12-Sept. 12, 2026 Stefano Poda’s production of Verdi’s “Aida” will be presented. Performance Dates: June 19-July 24, 2026 Verdi’s “Nabucco” will be revived in Stefano Poda’s production. Performance Dates: June 26-Sept. 9, 2026 Puccini’s “La Bohème” {…}
The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced the 2026 season. From 2026 onwards, the Berliner Philharmoniker will again be holding their traditional Easter Festival in Salzburg, the town where Herbert von Karajan founded this Festival in 1967. The season will begin a new ring cycle that will be seen over the next five years. Here is a look at the vocal {…}
The Bayreuth Festival has announced that due to budget cuts, its 2026 season will only present seven operas as opposed to the originally announced 11 works. In a letter obtained by Slippedisc the company said, “The current cost developments pose major challenges for the Bayreuth Festival. …Due to the very high proportion of personnel costs in the overall budget, the {…}
(Courtesy of Bayreuth Festival) The Bayreuth Festival has announced plans for the 2026 season. The company noted that it would celebrate its 150th anniversary with a special Ring Cycle. The festival noted that while Valentin Schwarz’s 2022 staging of the four-night “Der Ring des Nibelungen” will be revived for the final time in 2025, 2026 will be “not purely a {…}
The Bayreuth Festival is set to present Wagner’s “Rienzi” in 2026. Katharina Wagner said in a text that she believes that “Rienzi” is now part of the canon even though Wagner himself had not found the opera worthy of Bayreuth. She said, “And I’m sure Richard Wagner, in his artistic restlessness, would have enjoyed it from today’s perspective.” “Rienzi” made {…}