Like a sextant, indispensable to long-distance navigators on the planet of classical music, the Music & Opera Guide offers an overview of the entire 2025–2026 programme. More than 570 institutions around the world, including concert halls, opera houses, orchestras and dance companies, are featured, representing more than 48,000 performances from 1 September 2025 to 30 August 2026!

With a month-by-month calendar, indexes by artist and by work, as well as profiles of singers, conductors and instrumentalists, classical music lovers can navigate the season efficiently. Thanks to the 2025-2026 Music & Opera Guide Around the World, the season of Asmik Grigorian, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Renaud Capuçon, Riccardo Muti and many others is revealed.

The greatest institutions such as the Opéra national de Paris, the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Royal Ballet & Opera have their own dedicated chapter, providing all the information you need to book your seats with a detailed map of each venue so you don’t miss a thing during this wonderful 2025-2026 season.

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This interest took root in 1895, when, having just won a silver medal at the prestigious Vienna Conservatoire, Enescu chose Paris to pursue his musical training. He entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he rubbed shoulders with the future greats of French classical music: Maurice Ravel, Alfred Cortot, Paul Dukas, all classmates…

In the midst of this artistic effervescence, Enescu made his mark, particularly with his opera Œdipe (1936). This monumental score took him almost twenty years to complete. He died in Paris, his adopted home, and is buried today in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.

The Festival 2025 is a celebration of the French-language masterpieces that have marked the history of classical music. From 27 August to 21 September, lucky festival-goers will plunge into the world of Ravel, Poulenc, Bizet, Rameau and many others. True to its reputation for excellence, the George Enescu International Festival has invited the crème de la crème of international orchestras, with such great voices as Gaëlle Arquez, Benjamin Bernheim and Asmik Grigorian to perform the French repertoire (and others). Finally, two great operas will be performed: Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole andEnescu ‘s famous Oedipus .

The 27th George Enescu International Festival is sure to cause a sensation, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the fiery Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the unmissable Martha Argerich with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. French artists take the lion’s share, with Renaud Capuçon, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Alexandre Kantorow, not forgetting ‘almost’ French conductors such as Cristian Măcelaru and Klaus Mäkelä, who conducts not the Orchestre de Paris but his other orchestra, the prestigious Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

The dates run until 21 September 2025. The ticket office is still open!

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She was supposed to make her stage debut at the Paris Opera in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, but the production was unfortunately canceled due to the pandemic. Now, at last, audiences at the Opéra Bastille will have the chance to fully discover Asmik Grigorian’s talents—not just once, but three times over!

Indeed, the magnificent soprano will finally take the stage in an opera from April 29 to May 28, 2025, and not just any opera. Puccini’s Il Trittico is a cycle of three operas (Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro, and Suor Angelica), in which Asmik Grigorian will perform the three leading female roles (Lauretta, Giorgetta, and Suor Angelica)—a true vocal and theatrical marathon.

Even more so since the production has been entrusted to Christof Loy, who is making his debut at the Paris Opera after the great success of his Werther at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The stage director has chosen to present the works in an unusual order: first Gianni Schicchi, a burlesque farce set in medieval Florence, then Il Tabarro, a passionate drama unfolding on a barge along the banks of the Seine, and finally Suor Angelica, a heartrending tragedy and certainly one of the most moving soprano roles in all of opera—a universe already rich with emotion—composed by the genius Puccini.

To admire Asmik Grigorian in Il Trittico, click here!

And tout know more about the news of the Opéra national de Paris, it’s here!

Asmik Grigorian & Affiche d’Il Trittico – c – Algirdas Bakas & OnP Website

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However, she is putting her career on hold and will be replaced in Vienna by Simone Schneider (Die Walküre) and Krassimira Stoyanova (Der Rosenkavalier), in London by Natalya Romaniw (Die Walküre), and at Barcelona’s Liceu by Asmik Grigorian in a Wagner concert alongside Matthias Goerne.

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c – Lise Davidsen

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Conductor Tomáš Hanus, a great specialist of the repertoire, made his debut at the Vienna Opera in 2017 with Dvořák’s Rusalka, the other renowned Czech composer.

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Asmik Gregorian © T. Kolesnikov

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