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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.

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The European opera season

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Wexford Festival Opera presents the first modern staging of French composer Fromental Halévy's adaptation of Shakespeare's late masterpiece The Tempest. Conducted by Francesco Cilluffo and directed by Roberto Catalano.

Wexford Festival Opera 2022

A forgotten opera by Fromental Halévy, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, at Wexford Festival Opera.

Fromental Halévy: La Tempesta

The Ring of the Nibelung at the Staatsoper Berlin is conducted by Christian Thielemann who is standing in for the indisposed Daniel Barenboim. This is only the second time that Thielemann, one of the world’s great Wagnerians, has collaborated with the Staatskapelle Berlin and it will actually mark his debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden!

Berlin State Opera

Christian Thielemann to stand in for the Staatskapelle’s own Daniel Barenboim, who is indisposed.

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

Die Walküre, the second part of The Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy at the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Christian Thielemann.

From the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Part two of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre

“An ecstatic celebration of singing, sounds, ideas, and stagecraft” – gushed one critic in a review of this new production of Siegfried at the Staatsoper Berlin. Christian Thielemann again takes the place of Daniel Barenboim at the rostrum and both visually and vocally, Andreas Schager in the title role is a casting coup of the first order!

Part three of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov

Richard Wagner: Siegfried

At the Berlin State Opera, “Twilight of the Gods” marks the end of “The Ring of the Nibelung” – an extremely ambitious undertaking for any opera house. A musical triumph for all the singers and the conductor Christian Thielemann.

The final part of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov.

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Puccini’s last opera "Turandot" gifted the world one of the greatest operatic hits of all time: "Nessun Dorma". The world-class ensemble that Philipp Stölzl has assembled for his recent production of the work at the Staatsoper Berlin stars Elena Pankratova, Aida Garifullina, Siegfried Jerusalem, and René Pape. At the rostrum, moreover, will be grand maestro Zubin Mehta.

Philipp Stölzl’s recent staging of Puccini’s last opera with a star-studded cast.

Giacomo Puccini: Turandot

Léo Delibes’ masterpiece returns to the Opéra Comique in a production conducted by Raphaël Pichon, staged by Laurent Pelly and featuring a superb vocal ensemble.

Sabine Devieilhe at the Opéra Comique

Léo Delibes’ masterpiece returns to the Opéra Comique.

Léo Delibes: Lakmé

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

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

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

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

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

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The name of this Paris institution stands for a whole subgenre of opera.

Opéra Comique

The most popular of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and staged by Romeo Castellucci. A very special production, which promises to stir up the audience at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

A message from director Romeo Castellucci:
The action you are about to witness has the particular misfortune of containing images that, charged with violence, seem to be the cruel likeness of our near reality.
I imagined this work over a year ago.
No one could have foreseen this painful overlapping of art and reality, which today seems like an atrocious prophecy.
How to support today the unconscious exactness of these images on the stage?
But what to do in the face of the irretrievable that theatre represents?
It is essential to accept the pain produced by this concordance, in the light that Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection can represent.
Romeo Castellucci
July 2022
Recorded 13 July in Aix-en-Provence with the Orchestre de Paris and the Choir of the Orchestre de Paris.

The most popular of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and staged by Romeo Castellucci. A very special production, which promises to stir up the audience at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Resurrection - Gustav Mahler

Mozart, played in the courtyard of the Palais de l'archevêché, has thus remained a fixture of the festival to this day.

Aix-en-Provence Festival

The Dutch National Opera produces world-class music theatre and is well known for its artistically ambitious and innovative productions.

Dutch National Opera

Catalonia’s number one opera house, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, is centrally located on Barcelona’s world-famous boulevard Las Ramblas.

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Founded on the boulevard Unter den Linden in 1742 at the behest of King Frederick II of Prussia, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden is one of the German capital’s most illustrious cultural institutions. 

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

National opera since 1963, La Monnaie maintains a strong multicultural identity.

La Monnaie/De Munt

During Richard Wagner’s seven years here he staged the premieres of both Der Fliegender Holländer and Tannhäuser.

Semperoper Dresden

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

Hamburg State Opera

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

Finnish National Opera

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. 

Royal Opera House

The Teatro Real is considered as one of the most important institutions of Spanish theatre world.

Teatro Real

The Bayerische Staatsoper is steeped in tradition and ranks among the world’s leading opera houses.

Bavarian State Opera

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

Paris National Opera

Built in 1897, the Teatro Massimo is Italy’s largest opera house.

Teatro Massimo

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

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

Wexford Festival Opera

Scarcely any other opera house is as tradition-conscious as is the Vienna State Opera.

Vienna State Opera

The Opernhaus Zurich is Switzerland’s largest cultural institution.

Zurich Opera House

Rossini, Bellini, Puccini, Donizetti and Verdi premiered some of their most important works here.