Season Previews

Season Previews from around the world

Surrey’s Grange Park Opera Ring cycle 2026 to 2029

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Buckle up Wagnerians! the Ring cycle is coming to Surrey

Starting in 2026, Grange Park Opera undertakes the mammoth feat of staging the complete Ring cycle across four successive years.

Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen (usually known simply as the Ring cycle) starts in 2026 with Das Rheingold, followed by Die Walküre (2027), Siegfried (2028) and finishing with Götterdämmerung in 2029.

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Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 2024-25

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Elisabeth Sobotka and Christian Thielemann, the new artistic director and new general music director at Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 2024/25, present their first season at the opera house.

Elisabeth Sobotka and Christian Thielemann

The future artistic director at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Elisabeth Sobotka and the future general music director Christian Thielemann presented their programme for their first joint season 2024/25 and look forward to working together.

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Stadttheater Bremerhaven in 2024-25

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Diversity, imaginative classics and continuing courage for engaging with new formats are the key components of the Bremerhaven 2024/25 season

[l-r] Peter Hilton Fliegel (Head of Theatre), Marc Niemann (General Music Director), Michael Frost (City Councillor in charge of cultural affairs), Franziska Grevesmühl-von Macard (Head of Administration), Lars Tietje (Artistic Director), Markus Tatzig (Head of Music Theatre), Bianca Sue Henne (Head of Youth Theatre), and Alfonso Paencia (Head of Ballet). © Heiko Sandelmann

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London’s Royal Opera House (now the Royal Ballet & Opera) in 2024-25

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The Royal Ballet and Opera in 2024/25

  • World Premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen  
  • Eight new opera productions across two stages including: Eugene Onegin, The Tales of Hoffmann, Die Walküre, Semele, The Sound Voice Project and a Bernstein double bill 
  • European Premiere of Wayne McGregor’s MaddAddam  
  • Eight works new to The Royal Ballet by choreographers including Christopher Wheeldon, Joseph Toonga and Pam Tanowitz 
  • 40 years of breaking down barriers with our pioneering learning programmes 
  • 11 productions shown in 1,500 cinemas across the globe 
  • Tickets available from £3 – on sale from Wednesday 10 July 

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BBC Proms – Friday 19 July to Saturday 14 September 2024 

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BBC Proms welcomes the world’s best international and British orchestras to the Royal Albert Hall and launches more residencies across the UK 

Ninety Proms feature over 3,000 musicians over eight weeks, including star soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yunchan Lim, Víkingur Ólafsson, Sheku, Braimah and Isata Kanneh-Mason, and weekend festivals in Bristol, Nottingham and Gateshead.

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NIO’s Eugene Onegin in Belfast – 14 to 21 September 2024

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NORTHERN IRELAND OPERA PRESENTS EUGENE ONEGIN at The Grand Opera House Belfast

Directed by Cameron Menzies and conducted by Dominic Limburg

Featuring the Chorus of Northern Ireland Opera and the Orchestra of Northern Ireland Opera on 14, 17, 19, 21 September 2024 at 7.30pm

Love, friendship and fidelity collide with devastating consequences.
A story of passion, pride, a moment’s madness, a duel and a true love lost.

Northern Ireland Opera today announces Principal Cast and Creatives in Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece Eugene Onegin this September in Belfast. Based on Alexander Pushkin’s classic novel in verse, one of the most lyrical and beautiful pieces of literature adapted for opera, this stunning production will be directed by the renowned national opera company’s Artistic director Cameron Menzies (Nominated Best Director for Into the Woods Irish Times’s Irish Theatre Awards 2022 and Winner of three Paris Short Film Awards for film Old Friends and Other Days).

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