Season Previews

Season Previews from around the world

Opera North in 2025/26

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Opera North’s new season celebrating talent, creativity and storytelling

New productions of Handel’s Susanna in collaboration with Phoenix Dance Theatre and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro directed by Louisa Muller

Return of two much-loved favourites conducted by Opera North Music Director Garry Walker: Puccini’s La bohème and Britten’s Peter Grimes

Contemporary ‘sort of opera’ Pass the Spoon in the Howard Assembly Room

Judith Weir’s The Secret of the Black Spider performed by the Opera North Youth Company

New interactive Big Opera Mystery to introduce opera to young children and their families

New partnership with Nevill Holt Festival in Leicestershire

For all the dates of the 2025-2026 season and how to book your tickets CLICK HERE

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English National Ballet in 2025/26 and other recent news

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English National Ballet announces its 2025-2026 Season 

English National Ballet offers a diverse programme of work, opening up the possibilities of ballet
Company to perform works by Martha Graham and Crystal Pite for the first time
World premiere from rising choreographic talent, Kameron N. Saunders
Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty revived with national tour and first Royal Albert Hall performances
Increased national touring as ENB takes innovative, new programme to Theatre Royal Plymouth
Akram Khan’s Giselle marks 10th anniversary with first performances at the London Coliseum
Extensive programme of creative health, learning and participation offered throughout the season

For more information and to book tickets  CLICK HERE.

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Hamburg State Opera’s 2025-26 season

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[l-r] Dr Ralf Klöter, Tobias Kratzer, Dr Carsten Brosda, Omer Meir Wellber, and Demis Volpi © Kiran West

‘No risk, no fun’
2025/26 season at Hamburgische Staatsoper under new leadership team

For full details and how to book tickets CLICK HERE

A new generation of leaders takes over at Hamburg State Opera, all in their early to mid-forties: artistic director Tobias Kratzer, general music director Omer Meir Wellber, and Demis Volpi, artistic director of the ballet company (appointed in the summer of 2024). Managing director Dr Ralf Klöter praised their ability to achieve balance of continuity and new departure, while Dr Carsten Brosda, the city state of Hamburg’s senator for culture and media, emphasised how much Hamburg’s citizens were looking forward to the developments at their opera house. Indicative of the collaborative spirit of the season, the opera, ballet and concert departments gave a joint press conference, and their season is represented in a single combined brochure.

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Pierre Audi introduces the 77th edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (4 – 21 July 2025)

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The 77th edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence from 4 – 21 July 2025

The metamorphosis of Calisto, the reincarnation of Buddha, the transformation of Louise, the protean Don Giovanni… The focus of the 2025 edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (for more information click here) is clearly on the inexorable mutability of all things and the perpetual reinvention of the self. ‘There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature’ says Ovid in his Metamorphoses; and this is reflected in Cavalli’s La Calisto, which depicts a fascinating continuum between nature, mankind and the gods.

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Opera Holland Park’s 2025 Season opens on 27 May

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Opera Holland Park’s 2025 Season

New productions of two dark Gothic fantasies. The return of an explosive contemporary classic. Sentiment and satire in two co-productions with Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte. A succession of significant role and house debuts, a recital series exploring the connections between opera and song, and a revival of a much-loved tragedy of first and last love.

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Bampton Classical Opera in 2025

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BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2025
Antonio Salieri La locandiera (‘The Landlady’) (1773)

Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 18, Saturday 19 July
Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 25 August
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex: Saturday 6 September
London performance to be announced

For more information CLICK HERE.

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The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 – 21 to 30 August

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The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 – Opera for Everyone

The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 (full details CLICK HERE) will be ten days of Operas, Concerts, and Education Workshops throughout the most beautiful area of Britain. Following our Opera Festivals in 2021 and 2023, both critically acclaimed by international publications, the 2025 Festival will be even more exciting, engaging, and accessible: we will show that Opera is for everyone, and for everywhere.

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Teatro Colón in 2025

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Teatro Colón 2025 – new productions and a premiere

Teatro Colón

Ongoing but albeit improving difficult economic conditions in Argentina are reflected in the forthcoming 2025 opera season at the Teatro Colón – not least in the sparse prospectus for the year, compared with the more comprehensive and substantial editions of previous years.

Like 2024, the 2025 season foresees just seven works but a diverse selection and four of them as new local productions with only two having been put on previously within the last decade.

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