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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

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

The prisoner of a promise made to Neptune, King Idomeneus is faced with a cruel dilemma... From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, the most romantic of Mozart’s operas, directed by Satoshi Miyagi and conducted by Raphaël Pichon, with soprano Sabine Devieilhe, promises to be the operatic event of the 2022 Aix festival season.

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2022

The most romantic of Mozart’s operas, conducted by Raphaël Pichon, with soprano Sabine Devieilhe.

Mozart: Idomeneus, King of Crete

The literary source for Richard Strauss’s opera immortalizing the degeneracy of Herodes Antipas, King of Judea, and his step-daughter Salome, was supplied by Oscar Wilde. It tells of Herodes, who is keeping the prophet Jochanaan captive inside a cistern. Salome tries to seduce him and on being rebuffed, forces her stepfather to serve her the prophet’s head on a silver platter.

Directed by Christof Loy in Helsinki

Rejected by the prophet Jochanaan, Salome forces her abusive stepfather to exact revenge.

Richard Strauss: Salome

A documentary about the Festival Amazonas de Opera at the Amazon Theatre in Manaus, Brazil’s metropolis in the rainforest. The theatre was made famous by German director Werner Herzog’s cult film Fitzcarraldo. Since reopening n 1990, artists from all over the world have come to perform in this very special venue.

Teatro Amazonas

A documentary about the Festival Amazonas de Opera at the Amazon Theatre in Manaus, Brazil’s metropolis in the rainforest. 

Opera in the Rainforest

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 of 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 Strasbourg's Opéra national du Rhin is 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

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

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

Live from the Teatro Real in Madrid, an adaptation of Prokofiev’s flamboyant masterpiece by the ever-radical Calixto Bieito.

An adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev’s flamboyant masterpiece by radical director Calixto Bieito.

Prokofiev’s "The Fiery Angel" at the Teatro Real in Madrid

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

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

Live from Vilnius, Lithuania, a special concert to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people on Lithuanian independence day. Under the baton of principal conductor Ričardas Šumila and Ukrainian conductor Margaryta Grynyvetska, the Lithuanian National Opera Orchestra performs works by Ukrainian composers Valentyn Sylvestrov and Myroslav Skoryk, as well as Ludwig van Beethoven, in the presence of Lithuanian prime minister Ingrida Šimonytė.

From the Lithuanian National Opera

On Lithuanian independence day, a special concert live from Vilnius to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Strong Together - In Solidarity with Ukraine

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. 

Degas, Backstage at the Opera

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

Gymnastics

The Czech National Theatre has three opera houses at its disposal: the National Theatre, the State Opera that reopened in 2020 and the Estates Theatre, where Mozart premiered his Don Giovanni. The great Czech composers of the nineteenth and twentieth century – Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček – are all inseparably bound up with the Czech National Theatre.

Prague, Czech Republic

The Czech National Theatre has three opera houses at its disposal: the National Theatre, the State Opera that reopened in 2020 and the Estates Theatre.

Prague National Theatre

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.

Operatic Hip Hop: Dance Decolonised

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

For over 40 years, La Fura dels Baus has been creating theatrical performances that are a feast for the senses. The prestigious Catalan company performs at the Frankfurt opera house their creation: 'Free Bach 212, a reimagining of Bach’s last known cantata mixed with flamenco, electronics and video projection.

Fratopia-Festival Frankfurt

The prestigious Catalan company performs their creation: 'Free Bach 212, a reimagining of Bach mixed with flamenco, electronics and video.

La Fura dels Baus – Free Bach 212

Portrait of an exceptional musical talent and one of opera’s biggest stars, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. With interviews from her illustrious friends and colleagues from the world of classical music: Daniel Barenboim, Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel and more.

Portrait of an exceptional musical talent and one of opera’s biggest stars, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. 

Cecilia Bartoli & Friends

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. 

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