Anna Netrebko, Freddie De Tommaso, Marina Rebeka, Bryn Terfel, Aigul Akhmetshina, Lisette Oropesa, Juan Diego Flórez & Pretty Yende Lead Royal Ballet & Opera’s 2025-26 Season

The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Oliver Mears. Anna Netrebko and Aleksandra Kurzak share the title role. Freddie De Tommaso and Gerald Finley also star. Performance Dates: Sept. 11-Oct. 7, 2025 Speranza Scappucci conducts Verdi’s “I vespri siciliani” in a revival of Stefan Herheim’s production. Marina {…}

Mar 31, 2025

Teatro Alla Scala Previews 2025-26 Season, Starring Sara Jakubiak, Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna & Luca Salsi

The Teatro alla Scala has advanced plans for the Teatro alla Scala’s 2025-26 season. The season will open with Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” directed by Vasily Barkhatov and Sara Jakubiak. Riccardo Chailly will conduct. In February 2026, the company will give the entire “Ring Cycle” with Simone Young and Alexander Soddy. In April, the company will revive “Turandot” in {…}

Mar 27, 2025

Anna Netrebko, Sonya Yoncheva, Magdalena Kožená, Michael Volle, Anja Kampe, Serena Sáenz, Lisette Oropesa & Ludovic Tézier Lead Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s 2025-26 Season

The Staatsoper Berlin has unveiled its 2025-26 season. Premieres Bertrand de Billy conducts Lydia Steier’s new production of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” The cast includes Pene Pati, Nina Minasyan, Julia Kleiter, Clara Nadeshdin, Roberto Tagliavini, and Ema Nikolovska. A second cast will include Benjamin Bernheim, Regina Koncz, Siobhan Stagg, Clara Nadeshdin, Alex Esposito, and Samantha Hankey. Pierre Dumoussaud conducts. Performance {…}

Mar 25, 2025

Anna Netrebko, Pretty Yende & Christian Van Horn Lead Festival Cap Rocat’s 2025 Season

The Festival Cap Rocat in Mallorca has announced its 2025 season, which will be held between August 1 and 3, 2025. The season opens with a Gala operística featuring soprano Pretty Yende and director Riccardo Frizza. The Orquesta Sinfónica de las Islas Baleares will perform a program that includes Bellini, Verdi, Berlioz, Gounod, Dvořák, and Johann Strauss II. Performance Date: August 1, {…}

Mar 22, 2025

Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva, Pretty Yende, Marina Rebeka Headline Théâtre des Champs-Élysées’s 2025-26 Season

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Productions Jakob Lehmann conducts Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” in a production by Silvia Costa. Benjamin Bernheim, Viktoria Karkacheva, Christian Van Horn, and Thomas Dolié star. Performance Dates: Nov. 3-15, 2025 Offenbach’s “Robinson Crusoé” will be conducted by Marc Minkowski and directed by Laurent Pelly. Lawrence Brownlee, Julie Fuchs, Laurent {…}

Mar 22, 2025

Anna Netrebko & Jorge de León Lead Santa Catalina Classics’ 2025 Season

Santa Catalina Classics has announced its 2025 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. The season opens with Anna Netrebko in a gala performance alongside tenor Jorge de León. The Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria will be conducted by Karel Mark Chichon in popular opera arias. Performance Date: July 9, 2025 The season will also include tenor Gabriel {…}

Mar 13, 2025

Hungarian State Opera Rejects Ambassador of Ukraine Demands to Cancel Anna Netrebko’s Concert

The Hungarian State Opera has rejected the Ambassador of Ukraine’s call to cancel Anna Netrebko’s upcoming concert on March 23, 2025. According to reports, the Ukrainian Ambassador Fedor Sandor in Budapest demanded that the opera house cancel the soprano’s concert claiming that Netrebko was a supporter of Putin and a supporter of the war in Ukraine. However, the soprano has {…}

Feb 28, 2025

Rai Radio 3 to Broadcast ‘Tosca’ from Rome with Anna Netrebko

(Credit: Fabrizio Sansoni) Rai Radio 3 is set to broadcast Puccini’s “Tosca” from the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma on March 1, 2025. The evening will recreate the 1900 production that premiered the Opera. The cast will include Anna Netrebko in her signature interpretation that she has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Arena di Verona, Salzburg Festival, Teatro {…}

Feb 24, 2025

Anna Netrebko & Elena Sancho Pereg Lead ClàssicAnd’s 2025 Season

(Credit: Tim Osipov) ClàssicAnd, which takes place at the Parque Central de Andorra la Vella, has announced its 2025 season. The festival will take place between May 3 and 18, 2025. Here are the vocal performances for the season. Anna Netrebko opens the festival with a recital at the Parque Central de Andorra la Vella. She will be accompanied by {…}

Feb 12, 2025

Documentary Celebrating Anna Netrebko’s 30th Anniversary Released

(Credit: Olga Rubio Dalmau) In celebration of Anna Netrebko’s 30th anniversary of her stage debut, the soprano’s management has released a 30th anniversary documentary. The 30-minute film documents the soprano’s operatic debut at the Mariinsky Theatre on April 6, 1994 in “Le Nozze di Figaro” and features interviews with artists who were involved in the production. Among those that are {…}

Feb 10, 2025

Anna Netrebko to Make Palau de Les Arts Debut

(Credit: © Olga Rubio Dalmau) On Feb. 16, Anna Netrebko will make her Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Debut. The Soprano will perform at the Sala Principal in a recital featuring music by Tchaikovsky, Rimski-Kórsakov, and Strauss. She will also perform arias from Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur” and Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi.” The soprano will be joined by {…}

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