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Il Trittico, the true/fasle story

Three colours, three moods, three registers. And yet Puccini conceived this triptych as a whole from the outset. He interweaves these three one-act operas, from Il Tabarro, a drama of passion set on the quays of the Seine in the early 20th century, to Gianni Schicchi, a burlesque farce set in medieval Florence, and Suor Angelica, a mystical tragedy set in a 17th-century convent. Director Christof Loy, making his Paris Opera debut, places these works in an unusual order, progressing from comedy to drama.

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Il Trittico by Giacomo Puccini, from 29 April to 28 May 2025 at the Opéra Bastille

Three colours, three moods, three registers. And yet Puccini conceived this triptych as a whole from the outset. He interweaves these three one-act operas, from Il Tabarro, a drama of passion set on the quays of the Seine in the early 20th century, t

Giacomo Puccini

Il Trittico

Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 in Lucca, Italy, to a family of organists (his father was a notorious theoretician and music teacher). A performance of Verdi's Aida, which he saw in Pisa in 1876, convinced him that his vocation was to become a composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory with, among others, Amilcare Ponchielli. On Ponchielli's advice, he took part in a composition competition launched by the Sonzogno publishing house in 1883 for a one-act opera. Although he did not win the prize his piece, Le Villi, was staged in 1884 in Milan with some success. The music publisher Ricordi then commissioned him a second opera, Edgar. His third opera, Manon Lescaut, brought him lasting fame and marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with the librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Together, they wrote Puccini's three greatest masterpieces: La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900) and Madama Butterfly (1904). In 1910, the premiere of La Fanciulla del West took place at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Puccini then composed a lighter piece, La Rondine, performed without much success at the Monte-Carlo Opera. After that, Puccini slowed down his compositional work. A car accident left him lame for the rest of his life and it was not until 1918 that The Triptych (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi) premiered at the Metropolitan Opera. He died in Brussels in 1924 of throat cancer. His last opera, Turandot, remained unfinished. The last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano. However, when Toscanini premiered Turandot at La Scala in Milan on 25 April 1926, he hold his baton to mark the point Puccini had reached before dying and turned to the audience: “Here the master laid down his pen. He stopped there when he died”. Puccini also wrote a number of religious works (Salve regina, Messa di Gloria).

Carlo Rizzi has worked extensively in the domain of symphonic music and opera, conducting not only the great repertoire classics but also rare works by Bellini, Cimarosa, and Donizetti. Since his debut in 1982 with Donizetti’s L’ajo nell’imbarazzo, he has conducted over a hundred operatic works, focusing not only on Italian opera but also on works by Strauss, Wagner, Britten, and Janáček.

He was Music Director of the Welsh National Opera from 1992 to 2001 and again from 2004 to 2008. Since 2015, he has held the title of conductor emeritus. Since September 2019, he has been the Music Director of Opera Rara, the British label dedicated to reviving forgotten or little-known operatic works, with which he has recorded Leoncavallo’s Zingari and Donizetti’s L’Esule di Roma.

He is frequently invited to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and more. He has conducted renowned orchestras such as the Hallé Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Recently, he has conducted Les Vêpres siciliennes, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Madama Butterfly at the Welsh National Opera; Tosca, La Bohème, Médée, Don Carlos, and Un ballo in maschera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; I due Foscari at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Il Proscritto at London’s Barbican Centre; La Gazetta at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro; La Fille du Far-West and Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Vienna Staatsoper; Il Tabarro at the Welsh National Opera; and Otello at the Royal Opera House in London.

During the 2024-2025 season, he will conduct, among others, La fiamma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rigoletto and Turandot at the Vienna Staatsoper, La Bohème at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House in London.

At the Paris Opera: Norma, 1996; Simon Boccanegra, 1997; Rigoletto, 1998; La Cenerentola, 2002; Don Carlo, 2010; La Fille du Far-West, 2014; Cavalleria rusticana / Sancta Susanna, 2016; Cendrillon, 2022; Il Trovatore, 2023; Roméo et Juliette, 2023.

Christof Loy was born in Essen, Germany, and studied musical direction at the Folkwang University of the Arts. After further studies in Munich and assisting Luc Bondy and Dietrich Hilsdorf, among others, he made his directing debut with Gretchen, eine Mädchentragödie, a collage musical based on Faust. This was followed by engagements at various theaters, first in Germany, then abroad. Christof Loy works with numerous opera houses and international festivals. In 2019, he will make his choreographic debut with his own production of Tannhäuser in Amsterdam, where he will also choreograph his own production of Humperdinck's Königskinder. A few months after choreographing Bartók's ballet Le Mandarin merveilleux in Basel, he choreographed Orphée et Eurydice for the Salzburg Festival in 2023. In addition to his work in opera, Christof Loy also enjoys directing less academic projects, such as staging programs of melodies, including the Tchaikovsky evening "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" at the Frankfurt Opera and "Eine Winterreise" with Anne Sofie von Otter at the Theater Basel. In 2021, he will expand his artistic horizons with his first feature film, Springtime in Amsterdam (screenplay, music, direction). Christof Loy made his French debut at the Opéra national du Rhin in 2004, directing L'Italienne à Alger. He will return with productions of Le Chercheur de trésor (2022) and Guercœur (2024). Recent and upcoming highlights include productions of Elektra at London's Royal Opera House, La Fiamma at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Eugene Onegin at Madrid's Teatro Real, Turandot at the Théâtre de Bâle, Werther at La Scala and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Peter Grimes at the Opéra national de Lyon, and Louise at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. He is also planning several new productions of zarzuela.Debut at the Opéra national de Paris

Étienne Pluss ran an art gallery in Geneva before graduating in scenography from the Berlin University of the Arts in 1996. He began his career as an associate set designer with Achim Freyer and Karl-Ernst Herrmann.

He has worked with directors such as George Tabori, Nadja Loschky, Claus Guth, Richard Brunel, Christof Loy, Enrico Lubbe, Adriana Altaras, and Patrick Schlosser. His most recent works include the sets for Violet Snow at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Elektra at the Bonn Opera, Tristan and Isolde at the Leipzig Opera, and Martha at the Frankfurt Opera.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, he designed the sets for La serva padrona at the Frankfurt Opera. In 2021, he designed the sets for Salome at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, collaborated with director Richard Brunel on Rigoletto at the Opéra national de Lorraine, with Immo Karaman on Otello at the Hanover Staatsoper, and with Evgeny Titov on Macbeth at the Düsseldorf Theatre. In 2022, he designed the sets for L'Affaire Makropoulos at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Bluthaus at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Il Viaggio, Dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Triptyque at the Salzburg Festival, Alice in Wonderland at the Opernhaus in Zurich, and On purge bébé at La Monnaie in Brussels.

For the 2022-2023 season, he designed the sets for Don Carlo at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Turandot at the Vienna Staatsoper, and Samson at the 2024 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence under the direction of Claus Guth, Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin, and Giulio Cesare at the Frankfurt Opera under the direction of Nadja Loschky.In the 2024-2025 season, he will design the sets for Wozzeck at the Opéra national de Lyon, Ariodante at the Opéra national du Rhin, Macbeth at the Frankfurt Opera, Salomé at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Louise at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

At the Paris Opera: La Bohème, 2017; La Vestale, 2024; Il Viaggio, Dante, 2025

Born in Hamburg, Barbara Drosihn studied costume design at the University of Applied Sciences in her hometown after training as a seamstress. She then worked as a freelance costume designer in various theaters, including the Thalia Theater and Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Schauspielhaus in Bochum, as well as in Dresden and Cologne, collaborating with directors such as Michael Thalheimer, Stephan Kimmig, Nicolas Stemann, Andreas Kriegenburg, and Stefan Bachmann.

Barbara Drosihn works in close collaboration with Christof Loy. She designed the costumes for his first opera production, Lucrezia Borgia, at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Their collaboration continued with the costume design for his productions of Parsifal, Der Rosenkavalier, and Der ferne Klang at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Das Wunder der Heliane and Der Schatzgräber at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Così fan tutte and Il Trittico at the Salzburg Festival, Die Königskinder and Lohengrin at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Bluebeard’s Castle / The Miraculous Mandarin at Theater Basel, La Voix humaine / Erwartung at Teatro Real in Madrid, and Don Pasquale and La Rondine at the Zurich Opera. In Zurich, she also designed the costumes for Andreas Homoki’s productions of I Puritani and Fidelio.

She also maintains a close working relationship with Tatjana Gürbaca, which began in 2011 with the operas Parsifal and The Flying Dutchman at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp. She then designed the costumes for La Traviata at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, Capriccio and the Ring Cycle at the Theater an der Wien, La finta giardiniera and Le Grand Macabre at the Zurich Opera, Káťa Kabanová at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (in collaboration with the Grand Théâtre de Genève), and Rusalka at the Hanover Staatsoper.

Among her recent productions are La Fiamma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Manhattan Project at the Burgtheater in Vienna (Akademietheater).

Paris Opera debut

Fabrice Kebour started his career in New York. For over twenty years, his work has been presented on the world's major stages: the Comédie-Française, the Paris Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Bregenz Festival, La Scala in Milan, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and La Monnaie in Brussels.

He designed the lighting for Giorgio Barberio Corsetti's productions of Un chapeau de paille d'Italie at the Comédie-Française, Macbeth and Turandot at La Scala, and Don Carlo at the Mariinsky Theatre. He has also collaborated with Sir David Pountney for many years, most notably on La Forza del Destino at the Vienna State Opera, The Magic Flute on Lake Bregenz, and Philip Glass's world premiere of Spuren der Verirrten, inaugurating the new opera house in Linz.

In 2011, the Prague Quadriennale invited him to present his work in the retrospective Light Speaks, alongside designers who have shaped their generation. He has also been nominated for the Molière Award for Best Lighting Designer in 2005, 2009, and 2011, and for the Wales Theatre Awards in 2015.

Previous projects include Il Viaggio, Dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, directed by Claus Guth, Triptych for the Salzburg Festival, directed by Christof Loy, Ring for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, directed by Sir David Pountney, and Hélène d'Égypte for La Scala, directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf.

More recently, he has designed the lighting for West Side Story at the Théâtre du Châtelet, La Passagère and La Voix humaine in Madrid, La Fiamma at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ariodante at the Opéra national du Rhin, and Penderecki's Le Masque noir in Warsaw.

At the Paris Opera: Faust, 2011; La Bohème, 2017; Bérénice, 2018

Born in Berlin in 1972, Yvonne Gebauer studied German Literature, Philosophy and Religion at the Free University of Berlin. She has worked as a dramatic advisor for opera and theatre since 1998.She has worked with Hans Neuenfels for over twenty years and is also closely associated with Claus Guth, Christof Loy and Nadja Loschky. Other directors with whom she has worked include Kazuko Watanabe, Johan Simons, Frank Hilbrich, Tobias Kratzer, David Hermann, Amélie Niermeyer and Shirin Neshat.She has taught dramaturgy at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg (Reinhard von der Thannen's costume class), the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Erich Wonder's design class), the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (Amélie Niermeyer's directing class), the Weisensee Academy of Art in Berlin (Stefan Hageneier's design class) and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.From 2001 to 2008 she worked as a freelance journalist for the literary section of the Suddeutsche Zeitung. From 2009 to 2018, she worked as a dramaturge at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and as an iconographer for Max Joseph magazine.&nbsp; &nbsp;At the Paris Opera: La Bohème, 2017 ; Jephtha, 2018 ; Il Viaggio, Dante, 2025

A graduate of the Taiwan Teacher Training College (Music Department), Ching-Lien Wu continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, where she was awarded the First Prize in Choral Conducting in 1987. She attended courses and workshops in orchestral conducting with JeanSébastien Béreau, Helmut Rilling, Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez. 
In 1989, she was appointed Chorus Master at the Nantes Opera and in 1990, Assistant Chorus Master at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. From 1991 to 2001, Ching-Lien Wu served as Chorus Master at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg. The work she accomplished there was acclaimed by French and international critics. During this period, she was guest Chorus Master at the operas of Montpellier, Rouen and Shanghai as well as at Radio France for various operatic works and oratorios. In 1996, she was assistant to Norbert Balatsch at the Bayreuth Festival.
From 2001 to 2014, Ching-Lien Wu was Chorus Master of the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In September 2014, she was appointed Chorus Master of the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. In 2016, the German magazine Opernwelt awarded the Dutch National Opera Chorus under the direction of Ching-Lien Wu the best Chorus of the Year label. She has also conducted numerous concerts with her own choir «Le Motet de Genève» with the Suisse Romande Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestratus Genevensis. She was at the helm
of this vocal ensemble from 2002 to 2012.
Since 1996, she has been invited to give master classes in choral conducting at the CNSM in Lyon. In her native country, she has been responsible for musical studies for several opera productions, including The Barber of Seville, an opera she also staged in Taipei. Ching-Lien Wu was appointed Chorus Master of the Paris Opera in February 2021 and took up her post on 26 April of the same year.

Georgian baritone Misha Kiria graduated from the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Tbilisi State Conservatoire, and performs on the leading international operatic stages.He made his Verdi Opera Festival debut in Teatro Regio di Parma in 2017, in the title role of Falstaff, and was Lord Sidney (Il Viaggio a Reims), Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana) and Tonio (Paillasse) at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Blansac (La Scala di seta) at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Cavaliere di Belfiore (Un giorno di regno) at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola) at the Frankfurt Opera, Zarete (Il Paria) at Barbican Hall in London, Fra Melitone (La forza del destino) in Berlin and Don Geronio (Il turco in Italia) in Madrid.Highlights of these past seasons include his Salzburg Festival debut in a new production of the Triptych, as well as performances at Deutsche Oper as Fra Melitone, Lord Sidney and Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte). He regularly performs at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, where he appeared in Il signor Bruschino, Il turco in Italia, and The Barber of Seville.&nbsp;He made his debut at the Vienna Staatsoper in the role of Dulcamara (L'Elisir d'amore) and at the Teatro Real in Madrid in the title role of Falstaff. He has performed as Dulcamara at the Glyndebourne Festival, Michele and Gianni Schicchi (Il Trittico) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Michonnet (Adriana Lecouvreur) at the Opéra national de Lyon and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the title role of Don Pasquale with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.&nbsp;During the 2024-2025 season, he will portray, among others, Bartolo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) in Verona and Dresden, Sulpice (La Fille du régiment) and Don Magnifico in Munich, and Taddeo (L'Italiana in Algeri) in Pesaro.Paris Opera debut

Kiria.Misha 3 (c) Simon Pauly

Asmik Grigorian performs on the most important international opera stages: Vienna State Opera, New York Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, London Royal Opera House... She has received numerous international awards, such as the Golden Cross of the Stage (the highest award for singers in Lithuania). She was named Best Singer of the Year at the Austrian Musical Theater Awards in 2019, Opera Singer of the Year at the Ópera XXI Association in 2022, and Opera Singer of the Year at the Opus Klassik Awards in 2023.In 2024 she was awarded the Special Jury Prize of the Austrian Musical Theater Awards in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the art of opera and theater in Austria. She has recorded numerous discs for Alpha Classics, including "Dissonance" (Rachmaninov Melodies), her first album in collaboration with pianist Lukas Geniušas, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck, and "Laws of Solitude", where she recorded Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs in both their orchestral and piano versions.In the 2024-2025 season, Asmik Grigorian will make her debut in the title role of Rusalka at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.She also made her debuts as Elisabetta (Don Carlo) at the Vienna State Opera and as Norma at the Theater an der Wien. In the summer, she returned to the title role of Salomé for a version with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano, and sang Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) at the Salzburg Festival.Debut at the Opéra national de Paris

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Born in Tirana, Enkelejda Shkoza studied at the Conservatory of her hometown. She made her debut in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Strasbourg. Settling in Italy, she obtained a diploma in lyrical singing from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan and won first prize at the Leyla Gencer International Competition in Istanbul.Since then, she has performed on major international opera stages in works such as Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, The Queen of Spades, The Damnation of Faust, La Cenerentola, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Carmen, Maometto II, Falstaff, La forza del destino, La straniera, Guillaume Tell, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Daughter of the Regiment, Aida, Un ballo in maschera, Il Trovatore, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Nabucco, Pelléas et Mélisande, Lakmé, La damoiselle élue, and Joan of Arc at the Stake.She has performed Verdi's Requiem many times, as well as Rossini's Stabat Mater. She took part in the world premiere of Menotti's Missa Solemnis pro Jubileo Domini Nostri Tertio Millennio at the Colosseum in Rome.More recently, she has performed as La Frugola, Suor zelatrice, and Zita (Il trittico) at the Salzburg Festival, Azucena (Il trovatore) at the Verdi Festival in Parma, Ulrica / Madame Arvidson (Un ballo in maschera) in Tenerife and Marseille, Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Modena and Piacenza, Mrs. Quickly (Falstaff) in Athens, La Frugola (Il tabarro) at the Rome Opera, Emilia (Otello, in concert) in Aix-en-Provence and on tour with the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Ježibaba (Rusalka) at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, and Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) at the Royal Opera House in London.During the 2024-2025 season, she will perform, among other roles, Solocha (The Night Before Christmas by Rimsky-Korsakov) in Frankfurt, Emilia at the Teatro Real in Madrid, and Zita with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento.At the Paris Opera: Madama Butterfly (Suzuki), 1998, 2011; The Tales of Hoffmann (Giulietta), 2000; Così fan tutte (Dorabella), 2003.

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Alexey Neklyudov began his musical career in Reutov, near Moscow, his hometown. He continued his training at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center and the Gnessin Institute in Moscow, where he studied with Svetlana Nesterenko. During his studies, he won several singing competitions. In 2012 and 2013, he received scholarships from the Russian National Philharmonic and the Müslüm Magomayev Foundation, then participated in the Académie of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2015. 

His previous engagements include the roles of Lensky (Eugene Onegin) at the Bregenz Festival, Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Komische Oper Berlin, Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore) at the Theater St. Gallen, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Zurich Opera, and Lensky in a concert version at the Gulbenkian Foundation. He is also a regular guest at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he has appeared in roles such as Ferrando, Alfredo, Lensky, and Belfiore (La Finta Giardiniera), among others. 

He made his debut as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) in concert performances with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. During the 2021-2022 season, Alexey Neklyudov performed Percy (Anna Bolena) at the Zurich Opera and Rinuccio (Il Trittico) at the Salzburg Festival. At the beginning of the 2023-2024 season, he made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Lensky. 

During the 2024-2025 season, he will notably perform Alfredo at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and in Graz, as well as Don Ottavio at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. 

Debut at the Paris Opera

Neklyudov.Aleksey 1 (c) the artist

Born in Clarecastle, Ireland, Dean Power studied in Dublin with Mary Brennan and répétiteur Mairead Hurley at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the D.I.T. Conservatory of Music and Drama.After spending two years in the opera studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, he became a full member of the Ensemble and remained there for nine years.Now an independent singer, his recent engagements include his debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Graf Elemer (Arabella), at the Salzburg Festival as Gherardo (Gianni Schicchi) and a venditore di canzonette (Il Tabarro), at the Salzburg Easter Festival as Heinrich der Schreiber (Tannhäuser), and his return to the Irish National Opera for his debut as Ferrando (Così fan tutte). He joined the Dudamel Foundation to sing Jaquino in a unique semi-staged performance of Fidelio conducted by Gustavo Dudamel—a performance created specifically for both deaf and hearing audiences.In recent seasons, Dean Power has joined the Cork Opera House as an associate artist of Cara O’Sullivan, performing Don José (La Tragédie de Carmen), Tamino (The Magic Flute), an aria program for their Cultural Evening, a Christmas concert, and a gala opening concert.In concert, he has performed with the Irish Baroque Orchestra (Handel’s Messiah and Acis and Galatea), the Irish Chamber Orchestra (The Abduction from the Seraglio), the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (St. John Passion), the Ulster Orchestra (Elijah), and the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (Mozart’s Requiem). He has also performed Verdi’s Requiem at Cadogan Hall in London as well as in Limerick and Maynooth, Ireland, and gave the world premiere of James Hurley’s The Great Irish Poets Songbook in Munich, followed by performances in Ennis, Waterford, Cork, Maynooth, and Newfoundland. As part of the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival in 2024, he performed the role of Salieri (La Zingarella).Debut at the Paris Opera

Power.Dean 3 (c) Fritz Beck

Lavinia Bini graduated in singing with honor from the Conservatorio Cherubini in Florence and won the Renata Tebaldi International Competition. She made her professional debut in the role of Despina (Così fan tutte) in Rome and took part in the production of The Barber of Seville in Fermo, staged by Damiano Michieletto. Other appearances include Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze and Gianni Schicchi in Florence, Rinaldo, Il Matrimonio Segreto (Cimarosa) and Così fan tutte in Ravenne, I Due Figaro in Buenos Aires, L’elisir d'amore, Don Giovanni andI Lombardi alla prima crociata in Turin and Bologna, Don Giovanni at the Macerata Festival, La Rondine for an Italian tour, La Sonnambula, Don Giovanni, Idoménée and the triptych in Salzburg, La Bohème in Genoa, Cagliari and Liège, Don Carlo in Parma, Fidalba and Artabano (Hasse) at the Lugo Purtimiro Festival, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Ciociara (Tutino) and Don Pasquale in Cagliari, Rigoletto in Liège, L'italiana in Algeri in Paris, 7 Minuti (Battistelli) in Nancy, L'ammalato immaginario (Vinci) in Martina Franca, The Merry Widow, Gianni Schicchi, La Voix humaine and Il Segreto di Susanna in Verona, The Barber of Seville at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Carmen at the Arena of Verona. More recently, she made her role debut as Mimi (La Bohème) at Teatro Verdi in Trieste. She appeared in a concert in Muscat, where she also sang the role of Despina. She has sung Der Kaiser von Atlantis in Palermo, Oscar/Otto (Un Ballo in Maschera) for an Italian tour, Rossini’s Little solemn Mass in Taranto, Musetta (La Bohème) in a concert version in in Haifa and Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berta (The Barber of Seville) in Muscat, Adina (L’elisir d’amore) in Bologna, Norina (Don Pasquale) in Tokyo,&nbsp;Rosaura (Le Maschere&nbsp;de Mascagni) at the Wexford Festival and&nbsp;Ilia (Idoménée) at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart.



Paris Opera debut

Bini.Lavinia (c) Michele Monasta

Born in Barcelona in 1978, Manel Esteve Madrid studied music at the city conservatoire and singing with his father, baritone Vicenç Esteve. He completed his training with Joan Pons, Jaume Aragall, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Eduard Giménez, Carlos Chausson and Rolando Panerai. He won the singing international competitions of Pedro Lavirgen and Manuel Ausensi. In 1999, he made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Uberto (La Serva padrona). Since 2000, he has been performing at the most important Spanish music stages and festivals, including Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Palau de la Música catalana, ABAO in Bilbao, Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, Oviedo Opera, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Menorca Opera, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Teatre Principal in Majorca, Teatro Calderón, Teatro Arriaga, San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Castell de Peralada Festival… He also worked with major orchestras, with whom he mostly performed concert repertoire, and appeared in Carmina Burana at Palau de la Música catalana in Barcelona as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Spanish Radio and Television in Catalonia. Recent highlights include the roles of Betto di Signa (Gianni Schicchi) at Salzburg Festival, Hajný (Rusalka) at Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Schaunard (La Bohème) at Teatro Real, in Bilbao and at Teatro Regio in Turin, Papageno (The Magic Flute) at Oviedo Opera, Lescaut (Manon) in Santiago de Chile and Oviedo, Michonnet (Adriana Lecouvreur) at Teatro Real, Ping (Turandot), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) at Gran Teatre del Liceu and Joaquín (La Del Manojo de Rosas) at the Teatro de la Zarzuela.

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Born in Wisconsin, Scott Wilde trained at the Juilliard School in New York before making his operatic debut as the Second Soldier (Salome) at the Baltimore Opera.His early engagements took him to the New York City Opera, Washington Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and San Francisco Opera. He made his European debut as the Commendatore (Don Giovanni) at Dublin Opera, followed by Sarastro (The Magic Flute) in Palma de Mallorca.During his time at the Semperoper Dresden, he expanded his repertoire with roles such as the Hermit (Der Freischütz), Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos), and the King (Aida). Scott Wilde returned to San Francisco as the Speaker (The Magic Flute) and sang Abimélech (Samson et Dalila) and Hans Foltz (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg).He created the role of Jason (Medea by Rolf Liebermann) in Bern and has performed in Toulouse, Amsterdam, Geneva, Montpellier, and Madrid. More recently, he has sung Sarastro and Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande) at Welsh National Opera, the Bonze (Madama Butterfly) at Teatro Real Madrid, as well as roles in Wozzeck, Giulio Cesare, and Silent Night. At the Salzburg Festival, he performed the roles of Simone and Il Talpa (Il Trittico) and an old man (The Greek Passion by Martinů).During the 2024-2025 season, he will portray, among others, Judge Turpin (Sweeney Todd) at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Chief of Police (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. 

At the Paris Opera: participation in numerous productions including Perelà, l’homme de fumée (Alloro, The President of the Court, The Valet), 2003; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Hans Schwarz), 2003; Salome (Second Soldier), 2003, 2006, 2009; Elektra (An Old Servant), 2005; The Magic Flute (First Priest, Second Armed Man), 2005; Un ballo in maschera (Tomaso), 2007, 2009; Parsifal (A Knight of the Grail), 2008; Madama Butterfly (The Bonze), 2009, 2011, 2014.

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Iurii Samoilov has worked with many conductors, such as Richard Bonynge, Sir Antonio Pappano, Antonello Manacorda, Marc Soustrot, Marc Albrecht, Gustav Kuhn, Jonathan Cohen, Roberto Abbado, Sebastian Weigle, Riccardo Frizza, Pablo Heras-Casado, Theodor Guschlbauer, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Erki Pehk, Lorenzo Viotti, Alain Altinoglu, Tadaaki Otaka, Joana Mallwitz, and numerous stage director, including Sir Jonathan Miller, Claus Guth, Pierre Audi, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Harry Kupfer, Keith Warner, Laurent Pelly, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Peter Stein, David Alden, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Christof Loy and Damiano Michieletto.&nbsp;He sang Papageno (The Magic Flute), Sir Riccardo Forth (Il Puritani), Danilo (The Merry Widow), Eugene Onegin (title role), Marcello (La Bohème), Mr Astley (The Gambler), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Don Giovanni (rôle-titre), le Comte Almaviva (Les Nozze di Figaro) and Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor).&nbsp;Highlights of his recent seasons include his U.S. debut in the title role of Eugene Onegin at the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, his debut at the BBC Proms, his portrayal of Belcore (L’Elisir d’amore) in Macerata, the title role in Billy Budd at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Omar (Le Siège de Corinthe) at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Masetto (Don Giovanni) at the Salzburg Festival, his debut at Teatro Real in Madrid in The Golden Cockerel, and his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in La Bohème, as well as Sir Riccardo Forth (I Puritani) in Athens. 

During the 2024-2025 season, he will perform Dandini (La Cenerentola) in Houston and the title role in Eugene Onegin in Madrid. 


At the Paris Opera: The Magic Flute (Papageno), 2022

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Theresa Kronthaler grew up in Rome. After her graduation from the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin, she has continued to perform on the major stages of Europe.As a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and then the Komische Oper in Berlin, she has played major roles in productions of L'Orfeo, Giulio Cesare, Xerxes, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, The Clemency of Titus, La Belle Hélène, The Tales of Hoffmann, and Hansel and Gretel.She has also performed as a regular guest at the Theater an der Wien, the Frankfurt Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the De Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the Bremen Opera, and the Teatro Real in Madrid in roles such as Carmen, Eglantine (Euryanthe), the Lady (Cardillac), Clairon (Capriccio), Marguerite (The Damnation of Faust), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Isoletta (La straniera), as well as in several world premieres. During the 2023-2024 season, Theresa Kronthaler is performing Sieglinde (The Valkyrie) in Basel and Jenny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) in Bari.In concerts, she has toured several times in Spain, Italy, Ukraine, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Egypt, and has performed on various international stages, including the Musikverein in Vienna, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Society, and the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf.She has worked with directors such as Christoph Loy, Barrie Kosky, Keith Warner, Lydia Steier, and has sung under the direction of conductors like Henrik Nanasy, Markus Poschner, Michael Boder, Marin Alsop, and Jonathan Nott.Her debut album titled "The Living Loving Maid" – a modern reinterpretation of famous Baroque arias arranged by members of her Kronthaler Trio – was released by Sony Classical.At the Paris Opera: Beatrice di Tenda (Agnese del Maino), 2024

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Matteo Peirone studied singing with Franca Mattiucci, Paolo Montarsolo and Renata Scotto. He has won numerous opera competitions, including the ASLICO in Milan and the Verdi Competition in Parma.He has performed in the most important international opera houses: La Scala in Milan, Barbican Hall in London, Paris Opera, Opéra national du Rhin, ABAO Bilbao, Operas of Seville, Dresden, Frankfurt, Bonn, Tokyo, Palm Beach... He has worked with directors such as Jonathan Miller, Luca Ronconi, Graham Vick and Franco Zeffirelli, and conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren and Carlo Rizzi. He sang under the baton of Riccardo Muti in The Marriage of Figaro at La Scala in Milan and in Ravenna with the Vienna Philharmonic.For Decca, he has recorded the role of the Sacristan (Tosca) under Zubin Mehta, and for TDK, La Bohème at La Scala in Milan and Xerxes with Les Talens Lyriques. He has sung the roles of Mamma Agata (Viva la Mamma) at the Semperoper in Dresden, Dulcamara (L'Élixir d'amour) in Tel Aviv, Palm Beach, Parma, Bergamo, Benoît / Alcindoro (La Bohème) at La Scala in Milan, at the Stresa Festival, for the MITO Festival, in Rome and Munich, the Sacristan at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Naples, Rome, Bilbao, Seville, Parma.He has also appeared in The Marriage of Figaro in Turin, Bari, Amsterdam and Naples, Tosca at La Scala in Milan, the Triptych in Rome and London under Antonio Pappano, and Tosca at the Salzburg Festival under Christian Thielemann. Recent and future engagements include La Bohème in Muscat, Genoa, Turin, Cagliari, Naples and Saint-Étienne, Tosca in Salzburg, Palermo and Genoa, Manon Lescaut in Genoa and Cagliari, Gianni Schicchi in Salzburg and Monte-Carlo.At the Paris Opera: Tosca (Il Sagrestano), 2009, 2011; La Bohème (Benoît), 2009, 2014; La Fille du Far-West (José Castro), 2014

Peirone Matteo

Member of the Paris Opera Lyric TroupeCanadian-Armenian bass-baritone Vartan Gabrielian holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the Curtis Institute of Music. He is also an alumnus of the Canadian Opera Company’s ensemble and the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice program.In 2022, Gabrielian was a finalist at the Belvedere Competition as well as a Semi-Finalist of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. He is also a recipient of awards from numerous organisations including the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Career Bridges Schuyler Foundation, Gerda Lissner Foundation, Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation and the George London Foundation.Highlights of the 2023/24 season have included Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress) at Festival de Verbier, Basilio (The Barber of Seville) at at the Des Moines Metro Opera, Fasolt (Das Rheingold) with the Edmonton Opera, as well as Basilio, Brother Laurent (Romeo and Julier) and The Captain (Florencia en el Amazonas) at Opera San Jose.He has joined the Paris Opera Lyric Troupe for the 2024/25 season.At the Paris Opera: La Traviata (dottore Grenvil), en 2024 ; Madame Butterfly (Lo Zio Bonzo), en 2024 ; The Rake's Progress (le gardien de l'asile), en 2024 ; I Puritani (Lord Gualtiero Valton), en 2025.

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Gianni Schicchi

Born in Barnaul, Russia, Roman Burdenko has won numerous prestigious singing competitions, including the first prize at the Moscow International Opera Competition, the second prize at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris in 2011, the third prize at the Operalia Plácido Domingo Competition in Beijing in 2012, and the second prize at the 32nd Hans Gabor-Belvedere International Competition in Amsterdam in 2013.He performs on major international opera stages, including La Scala in Milan, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Verona Arena, the Opéra national de Paris, and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.Among the roles he has performed in recent seasons are Baron Scarpia (Tosca), Iago (Otello), Tonio (Pagliacci), Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana), Don Carlo di Vargas (La forza del destino), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Alberich (the Ring Cycle), Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Jack Rance (The Girl of the Golden West), Amonasro (Aida), Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades), Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor), Barnaba (La Gioconda), and the title roles of Rigoletto, Nabucco, and Macbeth.During the 2024-2025 season, he will perform, notably, as Baron Scarpia at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Tonio at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Michele (Il Tabarro) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste.At the Paris Opera: Tosca (Baron Scarpia), 2022; Rigoletto (title role), 2024

Burdenko.Roman (c) Daniil Rabovsky NB

Joshua Guerrero is a graduate of the Young Artist Program and a winner of the Los Angeles Opera’s Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award. He won Second Prize at the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition in 2014 and was the recipient of a grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation in 2016.He performed at the Washington Opera (La Traviata), the Houston Grand Opera (Florencia en el Amazonas), the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto (La Bohème and Rigoletto), the Glyndebourne Festival (Madama Butterfly), the Florida Grand Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor).He then returned to Los Angeles for his role debut as Macduff (Macbeth) and made his stage debut in that same role at the Zurich Opernhaus. In Los Angeles, he also sang Moby Dick and in Ghosts of Versailles. He made his house debut at the Opéra national de Bordeaux in Simon Boccanegra, at Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville, in L’elisir d’amore and at the Santa Fe Opera in Roméo et Juliette.In concert, he performed under Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven’s Symphony n°9 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and in Verdi’s Requiem with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra.He made his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Macbeth, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Royal Opera House in London in La Bohème, at the Dutch National Opera in Tosca, and at the Salzburg Festival in Il Tabarro.During the 2024-2025 season, he will perform, notably, the title role in Don Carlo and B. F. Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at the Vienna State Opera, Don José (Carmen) at the Opera of Rome, and Macduff at the Salzburg Festival. At the Paris Opera: La Bohème (Rodolfo), 2023

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After his diploma from the Galante Garrone School of Dramatic Arts in Bologna, and after a few years in several theatre companies, Andrea Giovannini began studying singing and made his operatic debut in the role of Danilo (The Merry Widow) under the baton of Massimo de Bernart.He has since performed the roles of Fenton (Falstaff) at the Grange Park Festival in London, Rodolfo (La Bohème) in Dublin, Alfredo (La Traviata) in Nuremberg and Dijon, before making his debut in several roles: Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) in Modena, Camille de Rossillon (The Merry Widow) in Naples and Rome, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Dijon, Tamino (The Magic Flute) in Massy, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) with Opera Zuid, Verdi’s Requiem with the Brabant Orchestra in Eindhoven and Poznan.Past engagements include Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor), Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro) and Spoletta (Tosca) in Rome, Edmondo (Manon Lescaut) in Florence, Goro (Madama Butterfly) in Naples and Parma, Abdallo (Nabucco) in Cagliari, Flavio (Norma) in Turin, Prunier (La Rondine) in Lucca, Pisa, Livorno, Modena, Ravenna and Rome.Recent projects include Pepe (Paillasse), Dr Cajus (Falstaff) and Don Girolamo (Agnese) at Teatro Regio in Turin, Edmondo in Verona, Action (West Side Story) in Rome, Monostatos (The Magic Flute) in Catania, The Abbé de Chazeuil (Adriana Lecouvreur) at the Salzburg Festival, where he came back for Il Tinca (Il Tabarro), Pang (Turandot) at the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago and Maestro Trabuco (La forza del destino) in Parma.As a member of the Vienna Staatsoper Ensemble, Andrea Giovannini sang in productions such as Madama Butterfly, Salomé, Tosca, Falstaff, Le nozze di Figaro, Adriana Lecouvreur, Werther, Boris Godunov, Der Rosenkavalier, La fanciulla del West and Dialogues des carmélites.Future projects include, among others, Dido and Æneas / The Seven Deadly Sins in Bologna and in Reggio Emilia.Paris Opera debut

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Trained at the Paris Opera Academy Member of the Paris Opera Lyric TroupeOriginally from New York, Ilanah Lobel-Torres earned her bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory and her master’s in vocal performance from the Mannes School of Music. Upon completing her master’s in 2019, she joined the Paris Opera Academy. As part of this programme, she has performed on the stages of the Opéra Bastille and the Palais Garnier, as well as on tour in Beirut, at La Grange au Lac in Évian, and at the Opéra de Dijon.In September 2020, she was diagnosed with primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma and underwent six cycles of chemotherapy. Six months after completing her treatment, she returned to Paris for the 2021-2022 season of the Paris Opera. She performed on the stage of La Grange au Lac as Ozia (La Giuditta) conducted by Thibault Noally and at the Dijon Opera as Costanza (L’isola disabitata) conducted by Faycal Karoui. She has also performed in concerts with the Academy and as a soloist in chamber music concert series with the Paris Opera Orchestra.During the 2022-2023 season, Ilanah Lobel-Torres performed the role of Ozia at the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu and at the Sinfonia en Périgord Festival with Les Accents and Thibault Noally, made her debut at the Santa Fe Opera as the First Nymph (Rusalka) under the direction of Lidiya Yankovskaya, and as a cover for Proserpina (L’Orfeo) under the direction of Harry Bicket.She has been a member of the Paris Opera Lyric Troupe since the 2023-2024 season.At the Paris Opera: The Child and the Spells (the Shepherdess, the Bat), 2020; Manon (Javotte), 2022; The Marriage of Figaro (a woman, Barbarina), 2022; Peter Grimes (Second Niece), 2023; The Makropulos Affair (Krista), 2023; Adriana Lecouvreur (Madamigella Jouvenot), 2024; Salome (a slave), 2024; The Brigands (Zerlina), 2024; The Magic Flute (Papagena), 2024

 ; Il Trittico (Un amante, Suor Osmina), 2025

Ilanah Lobel Torres © Barbara Torres

Chae Hoon Baek studied singing at Kosin University in Busan before joining the International Academy of Music in Rome, where he earned his diploma as a lyrical singer and choir conductor. He is also a graduate of the Conservatory of Campo Basso. He joined the Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome and was the winner of various singing competitions in Rome, Naples, and Ciampino between 2002 and 2005. As a soloist, he has performed in concert in England, Japan, and South Korea, and in 2007, at the Opéra National du Rhin (role of a Trojan in Idomeneo). He has also performed in operas such as La Bohème, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, L’Élixir d’amour. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Paris Opera Chorus. At the Paris Opera: Der Rosenkavalier (a servant of the Marschallin), 2016; Il Trovatore (a messenger), 2023; Lohengrin (a Brabantian noble), 2023

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Member of the Paris Opera ChorusPranvera Lehnert Ciko studied violin and voice in her native Tirana, Albania. At the age of 18 she moved to Paris and joined the class of Peggy Bouveret at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where she was awarded first prize in 1999.She sang in Menotti's Le Téléphone (1997) in Toulouse under the direction of Marc Bleuze and in a concert version of Don Pasquale (1998) at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Between 1998 and 1999, she toured with L'Opéra Éclaté in Manon and Le Nozze di Figaro. She was also invited twice to the Festival de Saint-Céré, notably for a recital of Schubert lieder.Concert appearances include Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Orchestre des Archets de Paris in Sainte-Chapelle and Schubert's Mass in G major in Béziers.She has been a member of the Paris Opera Chorus since 1999. She regularly participates in chamber music recitals at the Opéra Bastille Studio and Amphitheater with a very varied repertoire (Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Donizetti or Viennese operettas).At the Paris Opera: Dialogues des carmélites (Sœur Saint Charles), 2004; Le Nain (l'Amie de l'Infante), 2013; Madama Butterfly (la Cugina), 2014; A Midsummer Night's Dream (First Fairy), 2017, 2022 ; Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne (la Troisième Dame), 2019; Turandot (Ancella), 2023

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Il Tabarro

Born in Finland, Karita Mattila studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Liisa Linko-Malmio and, from 1984, with Vera Rozsa. She quickly established herself on major international opera stages.She has participated in numerous contemporary music events, including the world premiere of Émilie by Kaija Saariaho at the Opéra National de Lyon. She was named Musical America's Musician of the Year in the United States (2005) and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France (2003). In 2016, she received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award.She has performed Kostelnicka (Jenůfa) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and the San Francisco Opera, Emilia Marty (L’Affaire Makropoulos) at the Helsinki Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the BBC Proms, Sieglinde (Die Walküre) in Houston and San Francisco, Marie (Wozzeck) at the Royal Opera House in London, the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and the Royal Opera House in London, Plotina (Hadrian by Rufus Wainwright) at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, Madame de Croissy (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Leokadja Begbick (Grandeur and Decadence of the City of Mahagonny) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Ortrud (Lohengrin) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and Herodias (Salome) at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and the Houston Grand Opera.This season, she is performing Kostelnicka in London and Brno and the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) in Barcelona. Among her recordings, two have won Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (1998) and Jenůfa (2004).At the Paris Opera: Lohengrin (Elsa von Brabant), 1996; The Merry Widow (Hanna Glawari), 1997; The Queen of Spades (Lisa), 1999, 2001; Salome (title role), 2003; Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne, Primadonna), 2015; Rusalka (Foreign Princess), 2019; Salome (Herodias), 2022; The Makropoulos Affair (Emilia Marty), 2023

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Hanna Schwarz made her international breakthrough in 1975 as Fricka (Ring) at Bayreuth, where she also sang Erda, Waltraute (Ring) and Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde). She then embarked on an international career, working with conductors such as James Levine, Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm and Zubin Mehta.She sang Hérodias (Salomé) at the 2011 Salzburg Easter Festival, as well as new productions of Die Soldaten at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Zurich Opera, Jenůfa and Salomé in Zurich, Charodeyka and Peter Grimes at the Theater an der Wien, Daphne in Basel and at the Hamburg State Opera, Jenůfa at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Kátia Kabanová and Eugene Onegin in Hamburg. Recent projects include new productions of Dialogues des carmélites and La Dame de Pique in Basel, concerts of L'Opéra de quat'sous in Vienna, London, Paris and Hamburg, Salomé in Valencia and at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, L'Or du Rhin in Seville and Jenůfa at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.Hanna Schwarz has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, the London and Boston Symphony Orchestras, and in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His numerous radio broadcasts and recordings include Das Lied von der Erde, Gurrelieder, symphonies and songs by Gustav Mahler, and Verdi's Requiem. In the 2024-2025 season, she will appear in Jenůfa at London's Royal Opera House and in La Walkyrie in Basel.At the Opéra national de Paris: La Force du destin (Preziosilla), 1976; Lulu (Der Gymnasiast, Ein Groom, Eine Garderobiere), 1979; La Chauve-souris (Prinz Orlofsky), 1983; Don Quichotte (La Belle Dulcinée), 1986; Giulio Cesare (Cornelia), 1987; Eugène Onéguine (Filipievna), 2017.

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Trained at the Paris Opera Academy Member of the Paris Opera Lyric TroupeOriginally from Moscow, Margarita Polonskaya began studying music and theater at an early age. In 2016, she won first prize at the Karpacz International Opera Festival (Poland) and third place in the Russian singing competition Masterpieces of Russian Music. In 2017, she graduated from Moscow's Gnessin Academy. A student at Salzburg's Mozarteum University since 2018, she was a finalist and scholarship holder at the 25th Ferruccio Tagliavini International Singing Competition in Deutschlandsberg and received the Ein Gianna Szel scholarship. She won a scholarship from the Amicitia Association of Friends of Young Artists.

She appears at the Mozarteum University's Opera Studio, where she sings the roles of Marguerite (Faust), Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea), and Ritualist (Tea by Tan Dun). In 2022, she performed Pamina (The Magic Flute) at the Immling Festival.With the Paris Opera Academy, that she joined in September 2022 for two seasons, she sang Giulia (La Scala di seta) at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet and Anna Maurrant (Street Scenes) at the MC93 in Bobigny, among others. She sang the role of Prince Ozia (La Giuditta) at the Auditorium du Musée du Louvre. Margarita Polonskaya took part in the concert tour Les compositrices et la mélodie française, in partnership with the Palazzetto Bru Zane, performing in Paris, Venice, and at the Internationale Musikfestspiele Saar.

Margarita Polonskaya has won the AROP 2022-2023 prize, the 29th Cercle Carpeaux lyric prize, and was a prizewinner at the 15th Concours international de la mélodie de Gordes. She has recently performed Stabat Mater by Pergolèse in Oppède-le-Vieux, Mimi (La Bohème) in Autun, and Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice) in Saint-Guillaume and Strasbourg.She is a member of the Paris Opera Lyric Troupe for the 2024-2025 season.
At the Opéra national de Paris: The Magic Flute (Erste Dame), 2022, 2024; L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (la Princesse), 2023; L'Or du Rhin (Woglinde), 2025; Il Trittico (Suor Genovieffa), 2025

Margarita Polonskaya

Daryl Freedman is a graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera where she sang the roles of Princess Eboli (Don Carlo), Gertrude (Hansel and Gretel), and Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro).Past engagements include Fricka (Das Rheingold) at Virginia Opera, the title role of Julius Caesar at The Opera Atlanta, The Third Layd (The Magic Flute) at Metropolitan Opera in New York, Powerful Woman / Adelaide Johnson (Kamala Sankaram’s Rise) at Washington National Opera, Suor Dolcina (Suor Angelica) at the Salzburg Festival.On the concert stage she debuted with the Erie Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and performed with the Fairfax Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. During the 2022/23 season she made her role debut as Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera) at the Maryland Lyric Opera. She then returned to the Cleveland Orchestra for Schubert’s Mass No. 6, performed at the Severance Hall and Carnegie Hall. She sang The Messiah at the Santa Fe Symphony and returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Amneris (Aida).During the 2023/24 season, she sang The Third Lady and Ulrica at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Amneris at the Chicago Lyric Opera.

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Freedman.Daryl (c) Arielle Doneson

Member of the Paris Opera TroupeDutch mezzo-soprano Maria Warenberg finished her studies with distinction at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam under the guidance of Sasja Hunnego. She is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2023 and a multiple prize winner at the Classic Young Masters competition.In 2021 she debuted as Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette) at Opera Zuid. As a former member of the Dutch National Opera Academy in Amsterdam she made her debut in various opera productions, including d Costanza (Haydn’s L’isola disabitata) with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the baton of Kenneth Montgomery.Other highlights of her career include concerts at Tivoli Vredenburg Hall in Utrecht and at Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. She also took part in the convert verison of Janacek’s The Makropulos affair with the Radio Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Karina Canellakis, also at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.Besides opera repertoire, Maria Warenberg has a passion for the Lied repertoire and has performed in the leading festivals and concert venues in the Netherlands. She has, among others, performed a recital at the International Lied Festival Zeist and sung Berlioz’s Les Nuits d'été with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie during the Voices Festival at Gut Holzhausen.She recently made her role debut as Annio (La clemenza di Tito) at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, in a production that was also presented in Luxemburg and in Vienna as part of the Wiener Festwochen.She is a member of the Paris Opera Lyric Troupe for the 2024-2025 season, and will also perform in recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.







At the Paris Opera: Les Brigands (Bianca), 2024; The Cunning Little Vixen (the Dog), 2024&nbsp;; I Puritani (Enrichetta di Francia), 2025

; Il Trittico (La Suor infermiera), 2025

Warenberg.Maria 1 (c) Romy Treebusch

Nominated as a Talent Adami Classique 2023, Camille Chopin won the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Centre Prize and the Grand Revelation Prize at the Avignon Opera's Jeunes Espoirs Raymond Duffaut competition.She also joined the Opéra Comique Academy for the 2023-2024 season and is an artist in the Génération Opéra 2025-2026 program. Starting in 2025, she will be part of the Académie du Jardin des Voix. Camille Chopin made her stage debut at the age of 10 with the children choir Sotto Voce, then at 12 as Brigitta (The Sound of Music) at the Théâtre du Châtelet.In 2017 she obtained a degree in Arts and Literature from the Paris University (Paris 7 Diderot), and then trained at the Department for advanced young singers at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, before graduating from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris with distinction in 2024. Following the Tutti Foundation’s programme, she is mentored by soprano Nicole Car.Appearances include Little Red Riding Hood (Sondheim’s Into the Woods) at the Paris Opera’s Amphitheatre, staged by Charlotte Nessi and Mike Guermyet, Servilia (L’Affaire Clemenza) at the Seine Musicale with the Plein Jour company, Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Adina (L’elisir d’amore) with the Cosa Sento company, the Princess and the Cat (L’Enfant et les sortilèges) with the Ginette company, Barberina (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Opera Fuoco. 

She also took part in Emmanuelle Haïm’s production of Le Retour à Versailles. Her duet with pianist Heloïse Bertrand-Oleari was supported by the Jeunes Talents Association.At the beginning of 2024, she sang the soprano part in Mozart’s Mass in C minor at the Montpellier Corum, and Pulcinella by Stravinsky at the Opéra Comique. During the 2024-2025 season, she will portray, among others, the Angel (Samson) at the Opéra Comique and Anna (Nabucco) at the Opéra de Toulon.

Paris Opera debut

Chopin.Camille 1 (c) Pascal Ito

Originally
from Toulouse, Lisa Chaïb-Auriol began singing at the Théâtre du Capitole. She
joined the regional conservatory of her native city and obtained her singing
and alto diplomas. The soprano also trained in theater and at the Toulouse
School of Fine Arts. At the age of 18, she entered the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Frédéric Gindraux.
She obtained her master’s degree after studying with Léa Pasquel, Jean-Philippe
Clerc and Antoine Palloc.Awarded twice, in 2016 and 2018, at the Concours de
l’Opéra Grand Avignon, Lisa Chaïb-Auriol is a regional finalist in the Voix
Nouvelles competition. She won the Engie - Revelation prize at the
international festival of the Arcachon basin « Les Escapades Musicales » as well
as the Young Hope prize at the international competition in Mâcon. She was
awarded the « Young Hope » prize at the first edition of the « Corsa lirica »
competition, and received the prize of the Opéra National de Montpellier at the
Gordes Melody Competition in partnership with the pianist Ninon
Hannecart-Ségal. She is a laureate of the Tarrazi fund and of the Maria
Godart-Kareska legacy, and in January 2020 she received the Vocation Prize of
the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation.She has been invited to perform in
recital on stages such as the Opéra Grand Avignon, the Thalia Theatre in
Budapest and the Scène nationale de Mâcon. The public has heard her in the
roles of Pamina and Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Isis in
Antonio Lotti’s Giove in Argo under the direction of Leonardo García
Alarcón, as well as Micaëla in Carmen directed by Béatrice Uria Monzon
at the Nuits Musicales en Armagnac, and as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro
and Sylvia in Haydn’s L’Isola disabitata.Trained in the sacred
repertoire, she is a soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion conducted by Jos Van
Veldhoven at Notre-Dame de Paris, in Poulenc’s Gloria at the Basilica of Saint
Sernin in Toulouse, in Fauré’s Requiem at the Madeleine Church in Paris, as
well as in Mozart’s Requiem at the Basilica of Reims. In 2021, she performed in
a recital with Julie Depardieu and La Diane Française, directed by
Stéphanie-Marie Degand for the Festival Baroque de Pontoise. She completes her
training by participating in masterclasses with Karine Deshayes (at the Opéra
Comique), Sandrine Piau, Jean-Yves Ossonce, Regina Werner, Brigine Jäger,
Mireille Delunsch and Jean-Jacques Cubaynes.Lisa Chaïb-Auriol joins the Académie de l’Opéra
national de Paris in September 2023. She played the roles of the Shepherdess and the
Bat in Richard Jones and Antony McDonald's staging of Ravel's L'Enfant et les
sortilèges at the Palais Garnier, and Shirley Kaplan in Street SceneS directed
by Yshani Perinpanayagam and staged by Ted Huffman at the MC93-Maison de la
Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis.

Lisa Chaïb-Auriol

Member of the Paris Opera ChorusBorn in Latvia, Silga Tīruma graduated in singing (opera, concert, and mélodie) from the J. Vitols Academy of Music in Riga. She was selected by the Opera Studio to perform the roles of Adina (L’Elesir d'amore), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), and Fanny (Il Cambiale di matrimonio) at the Riga Opera.She completed her master's in lyric singing with honors at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. The jury of the Riccardo Zandonai International Singing Competition in Riva del Garda, Italy, awarded her the prize for the best interpretation of R. Zandonai.She sang the lead female role in the world premiere of the opera Franz Jägerstätter by Viktor Fortin in Graz. In Vienna, she met Christa Ludwig, from whom she received training. She worked under the direction of conductor Gustav Kuhn on the roles of Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, Austria.She performed Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Lelde (the lead female role in Spèlèju, dancoju by Imants Kalniņš) at the National Opera of Riga, and the title role in the Viennese operetta Clivia by Nico Dostal at the Riga Operetta Theatre. She has sung with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Hainfeld Castle in Austria and participated in the gala concert of the Sigulda Summer Lyric Festival (Latvia) with the Riga Opera Orchestra.In Latvia, she won the public's prize at the Music Awards, and Radio Classique awarded her the prize for the best debut career.Since 2015, she has been a member of the Paris Opera Chorus.At the Paris Opera: Don Carlos (A Voice from Above), 2017; Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne (Second Lady), 2020; A Midsummer Night's Dream (Second Elf), 2022.

Born in Belgium, Sophie Van de Woestyne made her professional debut at the Opéra royal de Wallonie. Soon after, she moved to Paris to pursue her artistic career and appeared at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra Comique, Opéra national de Lyon, but also at the Vienna Konzerthaus. She toured in the leading French operatic venues with the Ambronay Baroque Music Festival.She has portrayed Juno in Actéon. At the Opéra national de Lyon, she sang Nicklausse (The Tales of Hoffmann), the Mother (Der Jasager) and Mozart’s Requiem. At the Théâtre du Châtelet, she was Zoé (Véronique), Scientist (The Fly), Sister Margareta (Sound of Music).She was also one of the Six Spirits in Cendrillon at the Opéra Comique, a Carmelite in Dialogues with the Carmelites at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. In the same theatre, she sang Mrs Noe (L’Arche de Noé), Zulma (L'Italiana in Algeri) and Clotilde (Norma).In 2014, she joined the Paris Opera Chorus as a supernumerary artist where she became, in 2018, a tenured artist.

At the Paris Opera: Cendrillon (a Spirit), 2022, 2023 ; Peter Grimes (Fisherwoman), 2023

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Il Trittico, the true/fasle story

Il Trittico by Giacomo Puccini, from 29 April to 28 May 2025 at the Opéra Bastille