Chelsea Lehnea, Atalla Ayan, Nicole Chevalier, Marigona Qerkezi, Natasha Te Rupe-Wilson, Alexei Botnarciuc & Diana Haller Staatsoper Stuttgart’s 2026-27 Season

The Staatsoper Stuttgart has announced its 2026-27 season. Premieres  Chelsea Lehnea, Kai Kluge, Johannes Kammler, and Adam Palka star in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” Andriy Yurkevych conducts the production by Katie Mitchell. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-Nov. 1, 2026 Nicholas Carter conducts a new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.” Ulrike Schwab directs the production with Goran Jurić, Moritz Kallenberg, Rosie Aldridge, {…}

Brian Jagde, Kiandra Howarth, Ewa Vesin, Xavier Moreno & Anthea Barać Lead Staatstheater Hannover’s 2026-27 Season

Staatstheater Hannover has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” will star Grga Peroš, Cristiana Oliveira, Valda Wilson, Monika Walerowicz, and Joseph Dahdah. Masaru Kumakura conducts the new production by Wolfgang Nägele.  Performance Dates: Sept. 6-Oct. 22, 2026 Tchaikovsky’s “Pique Dame” will star Xavier Moreno, Philipp Jekal, Max Dollinger, Matteo Guerzè, Kiandra Howarth, Anthea Barać, Cassandra Doyle, Yejin Kim, and Viola Westhues. Francesco Angelico and Tobias Wögerer {…}

Vuvu Mpofu, Sophie Rennert, Matteo Ivan Rašić, Ewa Vesin, Soloman Howard & Scott Hendricks Lead Opera Vlaanderen’s 2026-27 Season

The Opera Vlaanderen has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Thomas Verstraeten’s “The Uprising of the Facases-The Parade” will be performed. Performance Date: Sept. 12, 2026 Louis Andriessen’s “De Materie” will star Elmar Gilbertsson, Katrien Baerts, and Lies Pauwels. Bas Wiegers conducts the production by Phia Ménard. Performance Dates: Sept. 16-27, 2026 Francesco Corti conducts Gluck’s “Orphée et Eurydice” with Sophie Rennert, {…}

Benjamin Bruns, Véronique Gens, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Daniel Luis de Vicente & Marie Lys Lead Opera Vlaanderen 2025-26 Season

Opera Vlaanderen has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the operas and vocal performances. Alejo Pérez conducts Wagner’s “Parsifal” in a production by Susanne Kennedy. Benjamin Bruns, Dshamilja Kaiser, Kartal Karagedik, and Albert Dohmen star. Performance Dates: Sept. 23-Oct. 22, 2025 Vuvu Mpofu leads Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Vincenzo Neri, César Cortés, and Emanuel Tomljenović. Andriy Yurkevych conducts. Performance Dates: Nov. 2-14, 2025 {…}

Kate Lindsey, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Eleonora Buratto, Aušriné Stundyté, Anja Kampe, Juliana Grigoryan, René Barbera & Elbenita Kajtazi Headline Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2025-26 Season

The Staatsoper Hamburg has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres  Robert Schumann’s “Das Paradies und die Peri” will be directed by Tobias Kratzer and conducted by Omer Meir Wellber and Felix Hornbachner. The work will star Vera-Lotte Boecker, Eliza Boom, Kady Evanyshyn, Kai Kluge, Annika Schlicht, Xavier Sabata, Eric Lunga Hallam, and Christoph Pohl. Performance Dates: Sept. 27-Nov. 1, 2025 Glinka’s “Ruslan und Ljudmila” will be {…}

Adriana González, Freddie De Tommaso, Ewa Vesin & Stefano Meo Lead Opéra de Toulon’s 2024-25 Season

The Opéra de Toulon has announced its 2024-25 season. Valerio Galli conducts the double bill of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci.” The production by Silvia Paoli will star Anaïk Morel, Tadeusz Szlenkier, Agnes Zwierko, Daniel Miroslaw, Marianne Croux, Daniel Miroslaw, and Csaba Kotlár. Performance Dates: June 29-July 2, 2024 Victorien Vanoosten conducts Adriana González and Freddie De Tommaso in an Italian {…}

Atalla Ayan, Iréne Theorin & Michael Mayes Lead Staatsoper Stuttgart’s 2023-24 Season

The Staatsoper Stuttgart has announced its 2023-24 season. Premieres  The first new production of the season will be Strauss’ “Die frau ohne Schatten” with Benjamin Bruns, Simone Schneider, Evelyn Herlitzius, Martin Gantner, and Iréne Theorin. Cornelius Meister conducts the production by David Hermann. Performance Dates: Oct. 29-Dec. 2, 2023 “La Fest,” featuring music by Vivaldi and Händel, will star Claudia {…}

Adela Zaharia, Michael Weinius, Maria Kataeva & Michael Volle Lead Deutsche Oper Am Rhein’s 2023-24 Season

The Deutsche Oper am Rhein has announced its 2023-24 season. Premieres The first new production of the season will be Wagner’s “Parsifal” with Daniel Frank and Michael Weinius sharing the title role. They are joined by Bogdan Baciu, Luke Stoker, Hans-Peter König, Joachim Goltz, and Sarah Ferede. Axel Kober conducts the production by Michael Thalheimer. Performance Dates: Sept. 17, 2023-April 7, {…}

Angela Brower, Gun-Brit Barkmin, David Kim & Michele Angelini Lead Den Norske Opera’s 2022-23 Season

Oslo’s Den Norske Opera has announced its 2022-23 season. Beate Mordal, Astrid Nordstad, Sakarias Fredriksen Tranvåg, Aleksander Nohr, Bernt Ola Volungholen, Petteri Lehikoinen, and Simen Bredesen star in “Wonderful Bernstein!” Karen Kamensek conducts. Performance Dates: August 20-26, 2022 Wagner’s “Parsifal third act” will be conducted by Asher Fisch and will feature Yngve Søberg, Franz-Josef Selig, and Daniel Brenna. Performance Dates: {…}

Ewa Vesin, Evgeny Nikitin & Joanna Motulewicz Lead Polish National Opera’s 2022 Season

The Polish National Opera has announced the second part of its 2022 season. Sonia Warzyńska-Dettlaff and Emil Ławecki star in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” alongside Aleksandra Olczyk, Łukasz Konieczny, and Kamil Zdebel. Piotr Staniszewski conducts. Performance Dates: Jan. 8-June 26, 2022 Ewa Vesin sings the title role of Puccini’s “Tosca” alongside Tadeusz Szlenkier and Krzysztof Szumański. Patrick Fournillier conducts. Performance {…}