As the 2024/25 is kicking off across opera theatres and concert halls, we are thrilled that fifteen artists appear in ten season opening events around Europe, in opera and concert, from Mozart to Wagner, under the baton of conductors such as Fabio Luisi, Edward Gardener, Kent Nagano and Zubin Mehta, to name a few.
Gerald Finley (Dutchman), Lise Davidsen (Senta), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Erik), Brindley Sherratt (Daland) and Anna Kissjudit (Mary) star in concert performances of the Flying Dutchman at Norwegian National Opera.
Alexander Köpeczi makes his company debut with the Dutch National Opera as Sparafucile in Verdi’s Rigoletto.
Jamez McCorkle inaugurates the season of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra with performances of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde conducted by Fabio Luisi.
Huw Montague Rendall stars as Count Almaviva in the first opera of the season at the Royal Ballet and Opera, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.
Louise Alder sings Strauss’s 4 Lieder, Op.27 with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Collon.
Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso and Gerald Finley star in Tosca which opens the season at Staatsoper Berlin, with the legendary Zubin Mehta conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin.
Cody Quattlebaum is the baritone soloist in the season premiere of Carl Orff’s Trilogy: Trionfi conducted by Kent Nagano and directed by Calixto Bieito.
In Barcelona, Pavel Černoch stars as Sergei in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a new production by Alex Olle, conducted by Josep Pons which launches the new season of the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
David Junghoon Kim sings Cavarodossi in Puccini’s Tosca at the Royal Swedish Opera.
And finally the Greek National Opera opens the season with a double bill of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride starring Anthony Gregory as Achilles and Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Pylade.