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A new production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is to be staged by Monte-Carlo Opera. This drama in 5 acts and 12 tableaux stars British baritone Huw Montague Rendall as Pelléas, French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre as Mélisande and Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley as Golaud, brother of Pelléas. Kazuki Yamada conducts, and the production is directed…

Kirill Karabits leads the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra and the Nice Opera Chorus, in a new co-production with Limoges Opera, of Mozart’s last work La Clémence de Titus (The Clemency of Tito). The opera stars Enea Scala in the title role, with Anaïs Constans as Vitellia and Marion Lebegue as Sesto. Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil…

Opera Narodowa, the Polish National Opera, stages La bohème, Giacomo Puccini’s passionate and heartbreaking portrayal of love, friendship and loss in the Bohemian quarter of Paris. The four-act opera stars Aleksandra Kurzak as Mimi and Piotr Buszewski as Rodolfo, the two lovers at the heart of this story. Aleksandra Orłowska is Musetta, Szymon Mechliński is…

This Christmas, Monte-Carlo Ballet presents Ma Bayadère Choreographer-Director J C Maillot’s reinterpretation of Marius Petipa’s La Bayadère, one of the great ballets of the classical repertoire. Ever an enthusiast for narrative ballet, Maillot retains the score of Ludwig Minkus, but whereas Petipa placed his 1877 ballet in an oriental setting, repeated by Rudolf Nureyev in…

Tomasz Konieczny as Mandryka and Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Arabella – Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera continues its Live in HD season with Richard Strauss’ lyric comedy Arabella. The production, the Met’s first revival of the opera in more than ten years, features Rachel Willis-Sørensen in her role debut as Arabella, with…

Christine Rice in a rehearsal shot of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking English National Opera presents Jake Heggie’s powerful opera, Dead Man Walking – a new production in collaboration with Opera North and Finnish National Opera. The role of Sister Helen Prejean is taken by mezzo-soprano Christine Rice and that of the accused, Joseph De…

Monte-Carlo Opera stages one of the most popular operas in the repertoire – Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda. This production of the Rome Opera House, stars coloratura soprano Anna Pirozzi in the title role, Arsen Soghomonyan as Radamès, the man she loves, mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Amneris who is also in love with Radamès, bass Antonio Di…

Maquette © Etienne Guiol Satyagraha, Philip Glass’s account of Mahatma Gandhi’s early years in South Africa, opens the Nice Opera 2025/26 season. Set to a text based on the ancient Sanskrit scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, Satyagraha looks at Gandhi’s concept of non-violent protest as a positive force for change, relating the experiences which were instrumental…

Kazuki Yamada & the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra © Sasha Gusov The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra opens the 2025-26 season with a programme of music by Saint-Saëns and Richard Strauss. Led by Music Director Kazuki Yamada, and featuring Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández, the Orchestra plays Saint-Saëns’ symphonic poem Phaéton, Op 9, his Symphony No 1 in E-flat…

Yuja Wang © Norbert Niat The San Francisco Symphony celebrates the new 2025/26 season with its Opening Gala concert in which Jaap van Zweden leads the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s majestic Piano Concerto No 1, with soloist Yuja Wang – a favourite of San Francisco audiences since her debut with the Orchestra in 2006. Also on…