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Turandot

Giacomo Puccini and Franco Alfano, libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni

Arena di Verona

Released 26 June 2025

Sara Blanch (L'Amour), Juan Francisco Gatell (Orphée) and Anna Prohaska (Euridice)

Orphée et Euridice

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Teatro Maggio Musicale Florence

Released 20 June 2025

Mazeppa

Tchaikovsky

Grange Park Opera

West Horsley Place, Surrey

14 June–6 July 2025

Suzuki (Kitty Whately), Cio-Cio-San (Hye-Youn Lee)

Madama Butterfly

Music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illic & Guiseppe Giacosa

Grange Park Opera

7 June–5 July 2025

Adina

Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Cherardo Bevilacqua Aldobrandini

Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro and Wexford Opera Festival

Released 6 June 2025

Amelia (Elin Pritchard), Gabriele Adorno (Otar Jorjikia)

Simon Boccanegra

Giuseppe Verdi

Grange Park Opera

Theatre in the Woods, West Horsley

5 June–11 July 2025

Un Ballo in Maschera

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Somma

Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona

Released 23 May 2025

Flight

Jonathan Dover, libretto April De Angelis

State Opera South Australia

Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia

8–10 May 2025

Tosca

Music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

3–17 May 2025

Andrei Zhilikhovsky (Andrei), Olga Kulchynska (Natasha) and Alexandra Yangel (Sonia)

War and Peace

Sergei Prokofiev after Leo Tolstoy

Bayerische Staatsoper

Released 2 May 2025

Justin Welsh as Marullo, Jan van der Hooft as Matteo Borsa and Andrew Greenwood as Count Ceprano with the Pacific Opera Victoria Chorus and Supernumaries

Rigoletto

Music by Giuseppi Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Pacific Opera Victoria

Royal Theatre

23–29 April 2025

Il Bajazet

Antonio Vivaldi and others

La Fenice, Venice

Released 18 April 2025

The Capulets and the Montagues

Bellini

English Touring Opera

Sheffield Lyceum

4 April 2025

Macbeth

Music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Piave and Andrea Maffei after ...

Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona

Released 4 April 2025

Tales of Apollo and Hercules

Music by George Frideric Handel, choreography by Valento Zucchetti, director ...

New English Ballet and La Nuova Musica at The London Handel Festival

Shoreditch Town Hall

27–29 March 2025

The Flying Dutchman

Score and libretto by Richard Wagner

Opera North

The Lowry, Salford

15 March 2025

Sally Matthews (Tatiana), Lilly Jørstad (Olga on chair) with Bernadetta Grabias (Larina) and Cristina Melis (nurse) in background

Eugene Onegin

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky after Alexander Pushkin

De Munt/La Monnaie, Brussels

Released 14 March 2025

AI Kaidan: Yūrei (Ghost) of the AI Empire

Libretto by Alexandra Huang-Kokina, music by Atzi Muramatsu

Operactive Arts Ltd

Reid Concert Hall

8 March 2025

The Capulets and the Montagues

Vincenzo Bellini

English Touring Opera

York Theatre Royal

1 March 2025

What Dreams May Come

English Touring Opera

The Studio, York Theatre Royal

28 February–1 March 2025

Duke Kim as Tamino and Rodion Pogossov as Papageno

The Magic Flute

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

22 February–9 March 2025

The children's chorus in Sant’Andrea della Valle

Tosca

Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Released 21 February 2025

Callum Spivack as the Prince and Andrew Love as the Pilot

The Little Prince

Music by Rachel Portman, libretto by Nicholas Wright

Pacific Opera Victoria

Royal Theatre

19–25 February 2025

Madama Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini, libretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Senbla/Ellen Kent

Festival Theatre, Malvern

16 February 2025

Arabella

Richard Strauss, libretto Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Released 14 February 2025

Salome

Music by Richard Strauss, text by Hedwig Lachmann

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Gent, Belgium

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Gent

7 February–7 August 2025

Phaedra + Minotaur

Deborah Warner and Kim Brandstrup, music Benjamin Britten, Eilon Morris

The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet and Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath

Linbury Theatre, Royal Ballet & Opera

6–11 February 2025

The Marriage of Figaro

Music by Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

English National Opera with Oper Wuppertal

London Coliseum

5–22 February 2025

Judith

Music by Frano Parać, text by Frano Parać and Tonko Maroević

Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb

Croatian National Theatre

17 January–17 July 2025

Carmen

Georges Bizet, text by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy

Opéra de Rouen Normandie

Opéra de Rouen Normandie, France

10 January–10 July 2025

Opera news

Orchestra of ROH opens mentorship applications

11 June 2025

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House's Overture mentorship programme is a collaboration with Black Lives in Music and the National Open Youth Orchestra.

“Icing on the cake”: Richard McCabe will play The Impresario

McCabe signs up for Mozart comic opera at Buxton

11 May 2025

Richard McCabe will take the title role in Mozart's comic opera The Impresario at Buxton International Festival.

Martin Graham pictured in front of his 'English Bayreuth' in 2016

Opera Festival founder dies

23 April 2025

Martin Graham, co-founder of Longborough Festival Opera, has died aged 83.

John Savournin who will direct Iolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance

G&S festival returns to Buxton Opera House

11 April 2025

The National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company will present three productions at the 31st International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at Buxton Opera House in August 2025.

Honouring festival founder Malcolm Fraser: Buxton Opera House

Nine operas on the bill at Buxton International Festival

26 March 2025

More than 160 events will be staged during the 2025 Buxton International Festival which will feature nine operas including four chamber opera commissions.

Charles Court Opera’s 2023 production of The Mikado which will be staged as part of the 31st Gilbert and Sullivan Festival

Gilbert and Sullivan festival returns to Buxton

5 February 2025

The 31st International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival will celebrate “the timeless works” of W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan at Buxton Opera House in August 2025.

New duo at Welsh Opera

6 January 2025

Welsh National Opera is starting 2025 with a new team in charge: director Adele Thomas and producer Sarah Crabtree.