Serena Sáenz sings the role of Blonde in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Wiener Staatsoper. The opera is staged by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Maestro Cornelius Meister. The soprano can be heard on December 15, 18, 21 and 26, 2023.
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With his “distinctive” and “astonishing” voice (ResMusica), Italian tenor Omar Mancini is rapidly becoming an important young voice of his generation. The 2025-2026 season brings highly anticipated role and house debuts, beginning with Mancini’s first performances at Konzert und Theater St. Gallen as Tebaldo in Pınar Karabulut’s new production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, conducted by Michael Balke. Mancini makes his house and role debut as Tamino in the new production of Julien Duval’s Die Zauberflöte at Opéra National de Bordeaux under the baton of Joseph Swensen and joins the Metropolitan Opera to cover Lawrence Brownlee as Lord Arturo Talbot in Bellini’s I Puritani Recent career highlights include Mancini’s company and role debut at Semperoper Dresden as Wagner in the new production of Boito’s Mefistofele, staged by Eva-Maria Höckmayr and conducted by Andrea Battistoni. In spring 2025, he made his house and role debut as Elvino in La sonnambula at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, sharing the stage with Xabier Anduaga and Nadine Sierra. Mancini also made his Deutsche Oper Berlin debut as Il Conte di Libenskof in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, which he reprised in a 2025 revival.
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Gaëlle Arquez takes on the title role in a new production of Offenbach's Fantasio at Opéra Comique in Paris. Staged by Thomas Jolly and conducted by Laurent Campellone, the production also features Jodie Devos, Franck Leguérine and Jean-Sébastien Bou, among others. The mezzo can be heard on December 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 & 23.
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Mojca Erdmann sings in two concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin. The program includes, among others, works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Ernest Chausson. Philippe Jordan conducts. The concerts take place at the Auditorium Rai "Arturo Toscanini" di Torino on the 14th and 15th of December, 2023.
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On December 12, Regula Mühlemann performs the Fairy Tales-programme from her album with CHAARTS Chamber Artists at the Tonhalle Zürich.
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Soprano Mirjam Mesak reprises the roles of Musetta in Giacomo Puccini’s opera La bohème and Dama di Lady Macbeth in Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.
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Serena Sáenz sings the role of Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper Berlin. The soprano can be heard on December 10 and 30, 2023 as well as on January 5, 2024.
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Sondra Radvanovsky sings the role of Turandot in a new production by Vasily Barkhatov at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Dan Ettinger conducts. Radvanovsky can be seen in performances on December 9, 12, 15, and 17, 2023.
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The Met’s family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale The Magic Flute returns to the stage. Rolando Villazón reprises his uproarious portrayal as the luckless bird catcher Papageno and can be seen on December 8, 10, 13, 16, 20, 22, 26, 28 and 30, 2023.
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