Opera and Ballet 2024-2025

In Puccini’s hands, the story of Manon, an eighteenth-century femme fatale hopelessly in love with the student Des Grieux, but also with a life of luxury, becomes a compelling, fast-paced drama.

The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1884, achieving overwhelmingly popular success, with the audience repeatedly calling out the singers and composer for encores and curtain calls

Scribe transformed Manon into a frivolous young woman, who sincerely falls in love with Des Grieux but has the misfortune to always find herself in the wrong place at the wrong time

With Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart’s music perfectly captures all the nuances of how it feels to be in love, proving him to be just as much a fine connoisseur of the human mind as a true genius of musical theatre.

Festive peasants and the ghosts of maidens who have died of heartbreak dance in Giselle, the celebrated romantic ballet that has enraptured generations of theatre-goers

The Nutcracker transforms the magic of Christmas into music thanks to the extraordinary talent of Tchaikovsky. In this ballet, toys, snowflakes, flowers, and sweets of all sorts dance to the rhythm of memorable waltzes and polkas, delighting young and old alike.

2025 starts with the magic of Roberto Bolle's great dance. Tickets on sale at the Teatro Regio ticket office or online on TicketOne.

While the elixir of love sold by the charlatan Dulcamara is an authentic fraud, Donizetti’s opera L’Elisir d’Amore is instead truly miraculous, comically funny and heart-wrenching at the same time, with the romantic tale of Nemorino and Adina told through delightful arias, duets and choruses.

Rigoletto is a tragic and grotesque story that powerfully captures the fine line between good and evil. A masterpiece by Verdi, it is an opera without a hero, studded with memorable classics, from “La Donna è Mobile” to the love duet “È il Sol dell’Anima.”

Only one opera moved Tchaikovsky to tears while he was composing it: The Queen of Spades. The tragedy of Hermann, a man whose obsession with gambling leads him to lose all hope for happiness and love, inspired the composer to write his most moving and harrowing arias.

Ghosts, love, madness, and revenge are the mainstays of this “opéra romantique” version of Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas. While it adds new episodes to the Shakespearean tragedy, making room for colourful dances and choruses, at the same time it preserves the original’s darker and more violent scenes, taken to new heights by extraordinary music.

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and the Jacobin’s reign of terror, Andrea Chénier is the tragedy of a poet willing to sacrifice his life for his ideals, and the woman who chooses to share his fate on the gallows for love. Umberto Giordano’s score skilfully weaves together the local colour of the moment with arias and duets of memorable passion.