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Love, power and ambition collide on the stage of Barcelona’s Teatre de Liceu in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, directed by Calixto Bieito.

Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona

From courtesan to empress – the unstoppable rise of Poppea, as told by Spanish director Calixto Bieito.

Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea

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In the 18th century, Hamburg Opera broke free from the influence of Italy, giving rise to a new musical culture in Germany. Counter-tenor Max Emanuel Cenčić offers us a glimpse of this vibrant operatic life from the stage of the stunning Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, accompanied by Christoph Rousset's Les Talens Lyriques.

Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024

Max Emanuel Cenčić takes us back to the rich tradition of Hamburg opera.

Max Emanuel Cenčić & Les Talens Lyriques

Since the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, the city of Bayreuth has become a mecca for Baroque music. Max Emanuel Cenčić, the Festival Director who won the Oper! Award 2024, has once again brought together virtuosos of the lyric art. Sandrine Piau invites us to savour the frivolity of 18th-century Rome through cantatas with enchanting notes.

Frivolous cantatas about 18th-century Rome with Sandrine Piau, from the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024.

Sandrine Piau & Les Talens Lyriques

“Adriana Lecouvreur”, Calabrian composer Francesco Cilea’s most famous work, is a lyrical retelling of the story of Adrienne Lecouvreur, the famous Parisian actress who died in suspicious circumstances in 1730.

Latvian National Opera, Riga

The Latvian National Opera presents Francesco Cilea’s opera on the tragic story of Adriana Lecouvreur.

Francesco Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur

Celebrated organist Sebastián Durón was unrivalled in his ability to marry Italian Baroque opera with incandescent Iberian folklore, much to the delight of the Spanish Court. Winners of the Opus Klassik prize for their recording of this music, Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai present Muera Cupido at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024.

Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai won the Opus Klassik prize in 2020 for their album Muera Cupido.

Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai

Guercœur, the knight and a freedom fighter, meets with an early death and ends up in heaven. But his soul is unable to rest and begs to be returned to earth. At the Opéra national du Rhin, Stéphane Degout plays the title role under the direction of Ingo Metzmacher, while Christof Loy’s staging explores the boundaries between the two worlds.

Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg

Allowed to return to earth just two years after his death, the knight Guercœur hopes to regain his freedom and be reunited with his love. But his hopes will be short-lived.

Albéric Magnard: Guercœur

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Seduced by a visiting American soldier, the geisha Cio-Cio-San, known as Madama Butterfly, awaits his return... In a production by Andrea Breth and under the musical direction of Daniele Rustioni, the Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho brings Puccini's Japanese tragedy to life at the Théâtre de l'Archevêché in Aix-en-Provence.

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024

Under the musical direction of Daniele Rustioni, soprano Ermonela Jaho brings Puccini's Japanese tragedy to life.

Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Lea Desandre, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants introduce Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Médée to the repertoire of the Opéra national de Paris, directed by David McVicar.

Paris National Opera

Charpentier’s masterpiece in a stunning production from Lea Desandre, William Christie and David McVicar.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée

Marco Tutino's opera, produced for the 2023 Wexford Festival Opera, tells the story of a mother and daughter fleeing the chaos and atrocities of the Second World War in Italy. It's a story inspired by Alberto Moravia's novel which was already adapted for the cinema by Vittorio De Sica in 1960, bagging Sophia Loren an Academy Award for her starring performance. La Ciociara, performed here on an Irish festival stage, offers a poignant operatic experience with powerful themes that resonate through time.

Wexford Festival Opera

La Ciociara is a deeply moving opera about a mother and daughter caught up in the horrors of the Second World War in Italy.