Naples - Teatro San Carlo

Opera, Concerts & Ballet - 2025/2026 Season

ETTINGER/GRIGORIAN

November 2025

November: 18 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Richard Wagner/Giacomo Puccini/Giuseppe Verdi/Richard Strauss

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Dan Ettinger
Cast: Asmik Grigorian
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

MEDEA

December 2025

December: 06 (7h00 pm - Inaugurazione) 10 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 13 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 16 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D)

DETAILS:

Music Luigi Cherubini - New Production Teatro di San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Mario Martone
Cast: Sondra Radvanovsky/Francesco Meli/Giorgi Manoshvili/Désirée Giove/Anita Rachvelishvili/Glauce Maria Knihnytska/Anastasia Sagaidak
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

THE NUTCRACKER

December-January 2026

December: 20 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 21 (5h00 pm - F.A.), 23 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 27 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 28 (5h00 pm - F.A.), 30 (7h00 pm - F.A.)
January: 02 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 03 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 04 (5h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Piotr I. Tchaikovsky - Production Teatro San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Jonathan Darlington (21, 23, 27, 28, 30) / Maurizio Agostini (2, 3, 4)
Choreography: Simone Valastro
Cast: Orchestra, Étoiles, Solisti e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo/Scuola di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

BEATRICE RANA

January 2025

January: 21 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Sergej. S. Prokofiev/Claude Debussy/Piotr I. Tchaikovsky

ARTISTS:

Piano: Beatrice Rana

INGO METZMACHER

February 2026

February: 01 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Hans Werner Henze/Johannes Brahms

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher
Cast: Matthias Goerne
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

KAREL MARK CHICHON / RUDOLF BUCHBINDER

February 2026

February: 21 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Ludwig van Beethoven

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Karel Mark Chichon
Cast: Rudolf Buchbinder
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

SEONG-JIN CHO

March 2026

March: 10 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Johann Sebastian Bach/Arnold Schönberg/Robert Schumann/Fryderyk Chopin

ARTISTS:

Piano: Seong-Jin Cho

FABIO LUISI / ALESSANDRO TAVERNA

March 2026

March: 14 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Ludwig van Beethoven

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Alessandro Taverna
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

FABIO LUISI / MARINA MONZÒ

March 2026

March: 22 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Gustav Mahler

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Marina Monzò
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

LA BOHÈME

April 2026

April: 08 (8h00 pm - Turn A) 09 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 10 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 11 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 12 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 14 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Giacomo Puccini

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Dan Ettinger
Director: Bárbara Lluch
Cast: Pretty Yende (8, 10, 12)-Elsa Dreisig (9,11,14)/Kang Wang (8, 10, 12)-René Barbera (9,11,14)/Marina Monzó (8, 10, 12)-Maria Knihnytska # (9,11,14)/Artur Rucinski (8, 10, 12)-Liam James Karai (9,11,14)/Alessio Arduini/Gianluca Buratto/Matteo Peirone/Ivan Lualdi/Ciro Giordano Orsini/Giuseppe Todisco/Mario Rosario Thomas
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

SOIRÉE BALANCHINE

April - May 2026

April: 28 (8h00 pm - Turn A), 29 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 30 (7h00 pm - Turn B)
May: 02 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 03 (5h00 pm - Turn F)

DETAILS:

Music Piotr I. Tchaikovsky/Sergej S. Prokof’ev/Georges Bizet - Production Teatro San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Paul Connelly
Choreography: George Balanchine/Sandra Jennings/Paul Boss
Cast: Orchestra, Étoiles, Solisti e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo/Scuola di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

RICCARDO FRIZZA / ANNA TIFU

May 2026

May: 23 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Ernst von Dohnányi/Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy/Richard Strauss

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Cast: Anna Tifu
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

ADRIANA LECOUVREUR

June 2026

June: 14 (5h00 pm - Turn A) 16 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 18 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 20 (7h00 pm - Turn F)

DETAILS:

Music Francesco Cilea - Production Opéra de Montecarlo, coproduction Opéra de Saint-Étienne/Opéra de Marseille

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg
Director: Davide Livermore
Cast: Aleksandra Kurzak/Brian Jagde/Elīna Garanča/Antonio Di Matteo/Pietro Spagnoli/Paweł Horodyski/Matteo Macchioni/Chiara Polese/Monica Bacelli/Roberto Covatta/Salvatore De Crescenzo
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

TURANDOT

July 2026

July: 05 (7h00 pm - Turn A) 07 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 08 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 10 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 11 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 12 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 14 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 15 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Giacomo Puccini - Production Teatro di San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Vincenzo Milletarì
Director: Vasily Barkhatov
Cast: Anna Pirozzi (5, 8, 11, 14)-Inara Kozlovskaya (7, 10, 12, 15)/Raúl Giménez/Alexander Vinogradov/Brian Jagde (5, 8, 11, 14)-Angelo Villari (7, 10, 12, 15)/Pretty Yende (5, 8, 11, 14)-Hasmik Torosyan (7, 10, 12, 15)/Gianluca Failla/Matteo Macchioni/Francesco Pittari/Hae Kang/Leslie Olga Visco/Valeria Attianese/Massimo Sirigu
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

COPPÉLIA

July 2026

July: 25 (8h00 pm), 26 (7h00 pm - Turn F), 28 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 30 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 31 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Léo Delibes - New Production Teatro San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Philippe Béranbr
Choreography: Charles Jude
Cast: Étoiles, Solisti e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

DAN ETTINGER

September 2026

September: 11 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Anton Bruckner

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Dan Ettinger
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

RICCARDO FRIZZA / LEŌNIDAS KAVAKOS

September 2026

September: 27 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Michail Ivanovič Glinka/Petr Ilic Cajkovskij/Dmitrij Šostakovič

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Cast: Leōnidas Kavakos
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

ALCINA

October 2026 - Concert Form

October: 09 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D) 11 (5h00 pm - Turn F)

DETAILS:

Music Georg Friedrich Händel - Production Teatro di San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Iván López-Reynoso
Cast: Lisette Oropesa/Franco Fagioli/Varduhi Abrahamyan/Sun Tianxuefei/Erin Morley/Sayumi Kaneko/Yunho Eric Kim
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

LA CENERENTOLA

October 2026

October: 20 (8h00 pm - Turn A) 21 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 23 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 25 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 27 (7h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Gioachino Rossini - Production Semperoper Dresden/Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Speranza Scappucci
Director: Damiano Michieletto
Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina (20, 23, 27)-Aleksandra Meteleva (21, 25)/Jack Swanson (20, 23, 27)-Dave Monaco (21, 25)/Florian Sempey/Giulio Mastrototaro/Laura Ulloa/Sayumi Kaneko/Gianluca Margheri
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

CHRISTMAS CONCERT

December 2025

December: 04 (7h00 pm - F.A.), 17 (7h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Traditional Christmas songs

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Fabrizio Cassi
Cast: Vincenzo Caruso
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

PARTENOPE

December 2025

December: 12 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 14 (5h00 pm - Turn F)

DETAILS:

Music Ennio Morricone - New Production Teatro di San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Vanessa Beecroft
Cast: Jessica Pratt/Maria Agresta/Désirée Giove/Francesco Demuro/Mimmo Borrelli
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

NABUCCO

January 2026

January: 18 (5h00 pm - Turn A), 22 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 25 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 28 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 31 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Giuseppe Verdi - Production Opernhaus Zürich

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Andreas Homoki
Cast: Ludovic Tézier/Piero Pretti/Michele Pertusi/Marina Rebeka/Cassandre Berthon/Lorenzo Mazzucchelli/Francesco Domenico Doto/Caterina Marchesini
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

RICCARDO FRIZZA / FEDERICO COLLI

January 2026

January: 24 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Franz Liszt/Robert Schumann/Antonin Dvoràk

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Cast:Federico Colli
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

FALSTAFF

February 2026

February: 15 (5h00 pm - Turn A), 17 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D), 19 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 22 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 24 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Giuseppe Verdi - Production Teatro Real Madrid, Coproduction La Monnaie/De Munt/Opéra National de Bordeaux/Tokyo Nikikai Opera Foundation

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Director: Laurent Pelly
Cast: Luca Salsi/Andrzej Filończyk/Francesco Demuro/Gregory Bonfatti/Enrico Casari/Piotr Micinski/Maria Agresta/Désirée Giove/Anita Rachvelishvili/Caterina Piva
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

VERDI REQUIEM

February 2026

February: 27 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P), 28 (7h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Giuseppe Verdi

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Cast: Pretty Yende/Elīna Garanča/Pene Pati/John Relyea
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

March 2026

March: 11 (8h00 pm - Turn A) 15 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 18 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 21 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 24 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D)

DETAILS:

Music Gaetano Donizetti - Production Teatro di San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Francesco Lanzillotta
Director: Gianni Amelio
Cast: Mattia Olivieri/Rosa Feola/René Barbera/Sun Tianxuefei/Alexander Köpeczi/Sayumi Kaneko/Francesco Domenico Doto
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD

March 2026

March: 19 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Ludwig van Beethoven/Johann Sebastian Bach/Ferruccio Busoni/Johannes Brahms

ARTISTS:

Piano: Hélène Grimaud

AIGUL AKHMETSHINA

April 2026

April: 07 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Various Artists

ARTISTS:

Piano: Jonathan Papp
Performer:Aigul Akhmetshina

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL / MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ

April 2026

April: 18 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P), 19 (7h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Igor Stravinsky/Manuel de Falla

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Artistic vision:Marina Abramović
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

WERTHER

May 2026

May: 20 (8h00 pm - Turn A), 22 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 24 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 26 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D)

DETAILS:

Music Jules Massenet - Production Oper Frankfurt

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Lorenzo Passerini
Director: Willy Decker
Cast: Jonas Kaufmann (20, 22)-Francesco Demuro (24, 26)/Lodovico Filippo Ravizza/Sergio Vitale/Roberto Covatta/Maurizio Bove/Vasco Maria Vagnoli/Caterina Piva/Désirée Giove/Sabrina Vitolo
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

MICHELE MARIOTTI

May 2026

May: 31 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Ludwig van Beethoven/Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

SONDRA RADVANOVSKY / FREDDIE DE TOMMASO

June 2026

June: 21 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Umberto Giordano/Giuseppe Verdi/Pietro Mascagni/Giacomo Puccini

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti
Cast: Sondra Radvanovsky/Freddie De Tommaso
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

JONAS KAUFMANN / LUDOVIC TÉZIER

July 2026

July: 17 (7h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music /Giuseppe Verdi/Giacomo Puccini/Amilcare Ponchielli

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Jochen Rieder
Cast: Jonas Kaufmann/Ludovic Tézier
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

AIDA

September 2026 - Concert Form

September: 06 (7h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Giuseppe Verdi - Production Oper Frankfurt

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Cast: Anna Netrebko/Jonas Kaufmann/Elizabeth DeShong/Luca Salsi/Alexander Köpeczi/Andrea Pellegrini/Sun Tianxuefei/Désirée Giove
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

MITRIDATE, RE DI PONTO

September - October 2026

September: 24 (7h00 pm - Turn A), 26 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 29 (7h00 pm - Turn C/D)
October: 01 (6h00 pm - Turn B)

DETAILS:

Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Production Teatro di San Carlo, Coproduction Teatro Real Madrid/Oper Frankfurt/Grand Teatre del Liceu

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Claus Guth
Cast: Giovanni Sala/Sara Blanch/Mariangela Sicilia/Franco Fagioli/Giuliana Gianfaldoni/Alasdair Kent/Agustín Pennino
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

ANITA RACHVELISHVILI

October 2026

October: 02 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Various artists

ARTISTS:

Piano: Vincenzo Scalera
Cast: Anita Rachvelishvili

YUNCHAN LIM

October 2026

October: 12 (8h00 pm - F.A.)

DETAILS:

Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

ARTISTS:

Piano: Yunchan Lim

FABRIZIO CASSI / IL GIOVANE VERDI

October 2026

October: 24 (7h00 pm - Turn S/P)

DETAILS:

Music Giuseppe Verdi

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Fabrizio Cassi
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

BOLÉRO

November 2026

November: 05 (8h00 pm - Turn A), 06 (7h00 pm - Turn B), 07 (8h00 pm - F.A.), 08 (5h00 pm - Turn F), 10 (8h00 pm - Turn C/D)

DETAILS:

Music Maurice Ravel - Production Teatro San Carlo

ARTISTS:

Conductor: Jonathan Darlington
Choreography: Maurice Béjart
Cast: Étoiles, Solisti e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo