26-27 Opera Season

A chilling modern tragedy centered on a solitary, tormented man crushed beneath the fears, hypocrisy, and judgment of a seaside fishing community. In Mariusz Treliński’s production, the  fishing village, the pier, and the sea take center stage. As rumors and suspicion intensify, Grimes’s  vulnerability is laid bare with devastating force.

Gounod’s grand opera brings to the stage the tragic story of Faust, who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youth and love, at a devastating moral and spiritual price. Stefano Poda’s  celebrated production, dominated by a giant ring that shapes the stage space and creates an abstract, mesmerizing, breathtaking visual world, returns to our stage.

Rossini’s comic classic returns in a new, wildly imaginative production by the creative duo Barbe & Doucet. At the heart of this intrigue-filled story are a quick-witted and uninhibited barber, a  mart and determined young woman, a charming count, and an old, jealous doctor. The story moves from Seville into a fantastical world of illusion and magic, where nothing is quite as it  seems.

Tiberias, 1938. The singer Bahiyya struggles to survive amid the bloodshed, torn between two worlds. The Jews call her a traitor; the Arabs call her a fallen woman. A profound friendship  between two women from different worlds reaches its tragic and inevitable end. Yonatan Cnaan and Ido Ricklin, the creators who brought you Theodor, return to the stage with a heroine left  utterly alone. An opera rooted in pre-state Israel, inspired by a true story. 

Carmen is a powerful portrait of a fiercely independent woman who insists on her freedom and defies social conventions, even at the price of her tragic fate. In Jean-Louis Grinda’s  roduction, the story is set in 1875, the year the opera was first performed. A bullring dominates the stage, filling it with passion, jealousy, and power struggles.