2024 - 2025 Season

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This is how my 2024 - 2025 season is shaping up so far. I may add one or two more, depending on where I travel during the year.

Vitrifrigo Arena Pesaro - Rossini - Ermione

La Monnaie - Wagner - Siegfried

ONP Bastille - Puccini - Madama Butterfly

La Monnaie - Kris Defoort - The Time of our Singing

Opéra Comique - Benjamin - Picture a day like this

La Monnaie - Mikael Karlsson - Fanny and Alexander

ONP Garnier - Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress

Opéra Comique - Rameau - Les Fêtes d'Hébé 

ONP Bastille - Janacek - Příhody lišky Bystroušky

ONP Garnier - Rameau - Castor et Pollux

Opéra Comique - Cherubini - Médée

ONP Bastille - Wagner - Das Rheingold

La Monnaie - Wagner - Götterdämmerung

La Monnaie at Bozar -  Mahler - Symphony n° 8

Opéra Comique - Rameau - Samson

ONP Garnier - Dusapin - Il viaggio, Dante

ONP Bastille - Verdi - Don Carlos

ONP Bastille - Puccini - Il Trittico

Théâtre du Châtelet - Bizet - L'Arlésienne / Le Docteur Miracle

La Monnaie - Bizet - Carmen

ONP Garnier - Offenbach - Les Brigands.

 

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