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An opera season for Europe: The ARTE Opera Season presents an array of outstanding productions from the continent’s greatest opera houses – some of them classics, some of them exciting new discoveries, with new productions every month, available in six languages. Savour the opulence, the passion, the magic of this unparalleled art form in a brand new season of ARTE Opera – exclusively on ARTE Concert.

The European opera season

Savour the opulence, the passion, the magic of this unparalleled art form in a brand new season of ARTE Opera.

ARTE Opera Season

Pippi Longstocking, the superhumanly strong redhead with pigtails and freckles, conquers the world of classical ballet. The Swedish dancer and choreographer Pär Isberg stages Astrid Lindgren’s favourite character from the Villa Villekulla for the Helsinki opera house. The ballet music is the work of Georg Riedel and Stefan Nilsson.

From the Helsinki Opera

The Swedish dancer and choreographer Pär Isberg stages Astrid Lindgren’s favourite character for the Helsinki opera house.

Pippi Longstocking

Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia ranks among the most popular and most successful works in the entire operatic canon. For his new staging of the work at the Vienna State Opera the director, actor and media artist Herbert Fritsch has assembled a star-studded cast that includes Juan Diego Flórez in the role of Count Almaviva, Ildar Abdrazakov as Don Basilio, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya as Rosina and Étienne Dupuis as Figaro.

From the Vienna State Opera

Director Herbert Fritsch assembles a star-studded cast for his new staging of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. 

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

As part of the ARTE Opera Season, the Czech National Theatre is showing a classic from the Czech repertoire: In this opera, Bedřich Smetana tells the story of an avenger figure from Czech history, whom he elevates to the rank of national hero. The opera is conducted by Jaroslav Kyzlink while Jiří Nekvasil signs the stage direction.

At the Czech National Theatre

At the National Theatre in Prague, Smetana’s Dalibor recounts the legend of the eponymous knight.

"Dalibor" by Bedřich Smetana

From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival. Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock leads a fine vocal ensemble that includes soprano Julie Fuchs, baritone Andrè Schuen and mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre.

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2021

Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities of the festival of lyric art in Aix-en-Provence.

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

The White Horse Inn in the Austrian mountains may seem the perfect place for a relaxing, carefree stay – but a happy ending is not as guaranteed as it might seem! The Opéra de Lausanne presents Ralph Benatzky’s acclaimed operetta in its much-loved French version by Paul Bonneau, sumptuously staged by Gilles Rico and conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce.

At the Opéra de Lausanne

Let’s take a short trip to the Austrian mountains! Ralph Benatzky’s much-loved operetta in Lausanne.

Ralph Benatzky: L’Auberge du Cheval blanc

Conductor Raphaël Pichon and director Cyril Teste team up to bring Beethoven’s Fidelio to the stage of the Opéra Comique.

Beethoven’s only opera conducted by Raphaël Pichon.

Beethoven's "Fidelio" at the Opéra Comique

Long-neglected works from several centuries of operatic history have long been a staple of the internationally acclaimed annual opera festival in the little Irish coastal town of Wexford.Having been forced to take a break last year, the festival has a rediscovered work by the important Italian composer Alfredo Catalani on this year’s programme: Edmea.

Wexford Festival Opera 2021

Wexford Opera Festival proudly presents a rediscovered, long forgotten work by Alfredo Catalani.

Alfredo Catalani: Edmea

With Jonas Kaufmann singing the title role, Ludovic Tézier the Grail King Amfortas, Georg Zeppenfeld Gurnemanz, and Elina Garanča making her debut as Kundry, the cast of Vienna’s new Parsifal production leaves nothing to be desired. Conducting is Philippe Jordan, who took over as musical director of the Vienna State Opera in September 2020.

Jonas Kaufmann, Elina Garanča, Ludovic Tézier

Kirill Serebrennikov stages Wagner’s last opera in Vienna with Jonas Kaufmann and Elina Garanča.

Richard Wagner: Parsifal

Two friends set off in search of art and love in the realm of the birds, which is as colourful as it is unreal. At first glance, Walter Braunfels’s Late Romantic opera Die Vögel (The Birds) has all the ingredients necessary to an amusing adventure story. But then the opera takes an unexpectedly serious turn in the form of some oblique allusions to the First World War. This new production at Opéra national du Rhin will be the work’s French premiere!

At the Opéra national du Rhin

The French premiere of a key work by the Late Romantic composer Walter Braunfels.

Walter Braunfels: The Birds

This telling of the Bluebeard story features a libretto by Maeterlinck inspired by Perrault’s famous fairy tale. It is an opera that gives pride of place to female characters and beguiles audiences with the evocative music of Paul Dukas.

From the Lyon Opera

This telling of the Bluebeard story gives pride of place to female characters and beguiles audiences with the evocative music of Paul Dukas.

Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue

Degas’s The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer hit the headlines at the Impressionist exhibition because of its shocking hyperrealism. It's found to be an ugly and crudely done piece. But the real scandal wasn't the work's reception, but the life of the young dancer herself and the treatment of her peers. 

Gymnastics

Degas’s The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer has a sad history behind it

Degas, Backstage at the Opera

In 2019, Les Indes galantes was performed at the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, hip hop style. This baroque opera, composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau, is an ode to colonial exoticism, and its reworking is the brainchild of Bintou Dembélé, the first black woman to choreograph a ballet at the Paris Opera.

In 2019, Les Indes galantes was performed at the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, hip hop style

Operatic Hip Hop: Dance Decolonised

Les Vêpres siciliennes was the first French-style opera that Verdi wrote from scratch, his only previous attempt at grand opera having been his highly acclaimed reworking of I Lombardi. What makes Les vêpres so remarkable, therefore, is not just its rousing arias and choruses – standard Verdi fare, in other words – but its inclusion of ballet, then still a non-negotiable component of all French opera that scarcely any composer dared ignore.

From the Teatro Massimo Palermo

The original French version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes from the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber

Giuseppe Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes

With 140 years of theatre history behind it and productions of international renown, the Opéra de Lausanne is well worth discovering, whether for the classical repertoire, Baroque opera, operetta or contemporary compositions. As the opera house was comprehensively overhauled in 2012, it meets the requirements of a modern-day theatre in every possible respect.

Lausanne, Switzerland

As the opera house was comprehensively overhauled in 2012, it meets the requirements of a modern-day theatre in every possible respect.

Lausanne Opera

The Royal Opera House Covent Garden belongs to the crème de la crème of world opera. It was here that Handel premiered his operas Ariodante and Alcina and introduced Londoners to The Messiah. These days its billings also include works by contemporary composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, George Benjamin and Thomas Adès.

London, United Kingdom

The Royal Opera House Covent Garden belongs to the crème de la crème of world opera. 

Royal Opera House

In 2019 the Paris National Opera celebrated its 350th anniversary. It is the only such institution in the world to perform in two opera houses: the Opéra Garnier that opened in 1875 and the Opéra Bastille that opened in 1989. Verdi, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Stravinsky all premiered major works of theirs at the Garnier.

Paris, France

In 2019 the Paris National Opera celebrated its 350th anniversary. 

Paris National Opera

The Finnish National Opera was founded as the Helsinki Opera House in 1911. It is now home to the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, which premieres at least one new work by a Finnish composer every year. Thanks to television and online streaming the opera house reaches viewers all over Finland – and indeed all over the world.

Helsinki, Finland

Thanks to television and online streaming the opera house reaches viewers all over Finland – and indeed all over the world.

Finnish National Opera

The little town of Wexford, just two hours away from Dublin, is home to an opera festival like no other. If, in October, its streets, restaurants and pubs are bursting at the seams, then it is because the world of opera has come to visit. With its productions of works far removed from the standard repertoire, this festival is an experience not to be missed.

Wexford, Ireland

The little town of Wexford, just two hours away from Dublin, is home to an opera festival like no other.

Wexford Festival Opera

The opera house on the Gänsemarkt is one of Hamburg’s most important cultural institutions, and one steeped in tradition. Here, George Frederick Handel played the violin and harpsichord, Gustav Mahler was chief conductor and Puccini and Tchaikovsky each took to the rostrum to conduct their own works. The Hamburg State Opera is one of Europe’s leading opera houses even today.

Hamburg, Germany

The opera house on the Gänsemarkt is one of Hamburg’s most important cultural institutions, and one steeped in tradition.

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