Calixto Bieito News

El festival celebra sus 50 años con el regreso de Calixto Bieito en LA VERDADERA HISTORIA DE RICARDO III y el estreno musical de ARRELS DE LLUM en el templo de Gaudí.

The opera Idomeneo, re di Creta by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be performed at La Monnaie / De Munt from March 10 through March 28, 2026, as part of the company’s main stage season.

Siegfried by Richard Wagner comes to Opéra Bastille next year. As part of the RING Festival 2026, performances will run from 10 to 19 November 2026. Learn more here!

With Siegfried, staged in Calixto Bieito’s new production, the Paris Opera presents the third part of Richard Wagner’s extraordinary undertaking, the Ring of the Nibelung.

Musica Sacra will present “Classics for Christmas,” a concert of festive delights, for its annual holiday concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring orchestral works by Corelli, Poulenc, Helena Paish, and Randall Thompson.

If you liked Evita at the Palladium, you'll like Carmen at the Coliseum

I’m looking forward to conducting Bizet’s Carmen for English National Opera (ENO) this autumn, alongside fellow conductor, Clelia Cafiero. Carmen’s extreme drama and memorable music makes it one of the best-loved operas by audiences worldwide.

Although W. A. Mozart wrote Idomeneo to commission for the Munich court and Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, a keen patron of the arts, who chose the subject himself, the opera is probably his most personal work.

Renowned Spanish theatre director Calixto Bieito's fiery Carmen will return to English National Opera (ENO) this autumn, in its fourth revival since it was first staged to acclaim in 2012.

The opera Katya Kabanova, based on A. N. Ostrovsky’s drama The Storm, deeply impresses every perceptive viewer due to its immense emotionality and Janáček’s extraordinary empathy.

English National Opera has announced the appointment of André de Ridder as its new Music Director and unveils details of its programme for the 2025/26 Season. Learn more here!

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation has announced the recipients of its prestigious Richard Tucker Award, Richard Tucker Career Grant, and Sara Tucker Study Grant. 

Das Rheingold comes to Opera Bastille in January. Borrowing from Norse and Germanic mythology, Wagner conceived an extraordinary cycle that reflected his innovative ambition: to create a total work of art inspired by ancient tragedy.

El Teatro Musical de Stephen Sondheim, el primer libro en español sobre el afamado compositor y letrista estadounidense, llega a las librerías españolas de la mano de su autor Alberto Mira.

Jacquelyn Stucker has withdrawn from all performances of The Marriage of Figaro for health reasons. The role of Countess Almaviva will be performed by Maria Bengtsson. 

The production's grim emphasis on male violence towards women gives it an eerie resonance.

Prokofiev's opera War & Peace will be presented on 28 January 2023 by the internationally renowned Catalan opera director Calixto Bieito in a joint production between the Hungarian State Opera and the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

The English National Opera's (ENO) spring season opens this February with the return of Calixto Bieito's fiery Carmen to the London Coliseum. Its third revival since it was first staged in 2012, this is one of the most popular operas ever written, featuring Bizet's instantly recognisable searing score. 

Romance and power take centre stage in Handel's Giulio Cesare, set against the backdrop of Ancient Rome and Egypt. In the midst of the Roman Civil War (49-45 BCE), Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) discovers that his rival Pompeo has been cruelly executed by the Egyptian king Tolomeo.

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