The magic of opera, ballet, and great music returns on the stage of the historic Costanzi Theatre with the rich programme of Doppio Sogno (Double Dream), the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma 2025-26 season.
The programme includes 12 new productions, of which 9 are operas and 3 ballets for a total of 14 operas, 8 ballets, and 4 concerts, as well as 3 tours by the Corps de Ballet and one by the Orchestra. It also features the debut of international directors, great conductors, opera and ballet stars.
The new, captivating season of the Teatro dell'Opera is anticipated by a special evening that concludes the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of Tosca, Puccini's masterpiece, presented in the version of the first world premiere and broadcast live on Rai 3.
OPERA
As per tradition, the season kicks off on 27 November 2025 with Wagner's Lohengrin, returning to the Costanzi stage after fifty years. It continues from 14 to 25 January 2026 with La bohème, Inferno by Lucia Ronchetti, from 19 February with four repeats until 7 March 2026; Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss' masterpiece, from 1 to 10 March 2026, followed by Georg Friedrich Händel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno from 7 to 14 April 2026. Then, from 28 April to 6 May 2026, it is the turn of Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, a new title on the stage of the Capitoline theatre, Rossini's Tancredi, on stage from 19 to 29 May 2026, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata by Sofia Coppola (from 21 to 30 June 2026), Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (from 15 to 23 September 2026) and Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff, presented on 11 October 2026 and repeated five times, from 13 October to 1 November.
BALLET
The new ballet season opens with Tchaikovsky's fairytale-like The Nutcracker, on stage from 17 to 31 December 2025, followed by La Bayadère in Benjamin Pech's choreography from 3 to 8 February 2026. On the schedule is also Trittico Contemporaneo (The Contemporary Triptych), returning with John Neumeier's Spring and Fall, Jacopo Godani's Echoes from a Restless Soul to music by Ravel, and Benjamin Millepied's ballet I Feel the Earth Move to Philip Glass’ music. From 14 to 19 April 2026, the Teatro Nazionale hosts the Serata Preljocaj with La Stravaganza, Annonciation, and Noces. From 28 to 30 April 2026, the spotlight is on the debut of Burn, the new dance-theatre project by A. J. Weissbard at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream is staged for the first time at the Costanzi from 9 to 14 June 2026, followed by the second Trittico Contemporaneo, closing the ballet season with Marco Goecke’s Petrushka, Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, and Pina Bausch’s Le sacre du printemps, from 27 October to 8 November.
CONCERTS
On the schedule are numerous appointments with great symphonic music and the most prestigious batons, starting on 5 March 2026 with the concert Alla corte dei re di Francia. Musiche per Versailles (At the court of the kings of France. Music for Versailles) with works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, and Jean Philippe Rameau. The titles protagonists of Visioni d'addio, scheduled for 28 May 2026, are Vier letzte Lieder by Richard Strauss and Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major, D 944. The season continues in October with Gioachino Rossini's two Petite messe solennelle: on 17 October 2026 in the version for soloists, choir, and orchestra, and on 22 October 2026, in the evocative Basilica of San Vitale, in the original version for soloists, choir, two pianos, and harmonium.
The programme also includes a series of events at the Teatro Nazionale, a season both parallel and integrated with the one of the Costanzi: six plays, operas, and ballets that pay homage to ancient and 20th-century literature. Opening is Tragùdia - Il canto di Edipo (The Song of Oedipus) by Alessandro Serra, on stage from 4 to 7 October 2025, followed by two ballets: on 12 and 13 December 2025, Friedemann Vogel's performance in Soul Threads and, from 14 to 19 April 2026, Serata Preljocaj. As part of the special event “HANS WERNER HENZE 100” are La piccola cubana (15 and 21 May 2026), Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s vaudeville, and El Cimarrón (17 and 20 May 2026), Henze’s recital. Closing the programme at the Teatro Nazionale is La vita nuda, an opera freely inspired by Pirandello's L'uomo dal fiore in bocca and La patente, with music by Matteo D'Amico, on stage from 21 to 25 October 2026.
Information: www.operaroma.it
Photo: Costanzi Hall, ph. Fabrizio Sansoni - Opera Roma
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