The opening of the 2025 Opera and Ballet Season will be held on Friday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m., with a repeat performance on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 3:30 p.m. and a special Preview for the youngest audience on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 5 p.m. The inaugural title will be Carmen, Georges Bizet’s celebrated opera that has been missing from the Teatro Grande stage for eight years. Performed on stages all over the world and whose arias are instantly recognizable by melomaniacs and novices alike – think of L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera) – Carmen is a symbolic work of the quest for the freedom to love, a plastic depiction of the gender violence that flows from overwhelming passion.
CARMEN
Opéra-comique in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Based on the novella “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée
Music by GEORGES BIZET
Carmen Emanuela Pascu, Emilia Rukavina
Don José Joseph Dahdah
Micaëla Rocio Faus, Alessia Merepeza
Escamillo Pablo Ruiz
Mercédès Aoxue Zhu
Frasquita Soraya Mencid
Moralès Matteo Torcaso
Zuniga Nicola Ciancio
Dancairo William Allione
Remendado Gianluca Moro
Conductor Sergio Alapont
Direction Stefano Vizioli
Choreography and assistant to the direction Pierluigi Vanelli
Sets Emanuele Sinisi
Costumes Annamaria Heinreich
Light design Vincenzo Raponi
Videomapping project and Visual art Imaginarium Studio
Choirmaster Diego Maccagnola
Coro OperaLombardia
Coro di voci bianche I Piccoli Musici
Maestro del Coro di voci bianche I Piccoli Musici Mario Mora
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali
New production
Teatri di OperaLombardia, Teatro Comunale “Pavarotti-Freni” di Modena, Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Teatro “Dante Alighieri” di Ravenna
With the support of Regione Lombardia and Fondazione Cariplo.
Tickets
| PREMIERE NIGHT | FULL PRICE | UNDER30 | OVER65 |
| STALLS AND BOXES I-II-III ordine | € 90,00 | € 35,00 | € 75,00 |
| I GALLERY AND BOXES IV ROW | € 50,00 | € 24,00 | € 40,00 |
| II GALLERY | € 28,00 | € 18,00 | € 24,00 |
| TICKETS | FULL PRICE | UNDER30 | OVER65 |
| STALLS AND BOXES I-II-III ordine | € 60,00 | € 35,00 | € 48,00 |
| I GALLERY AND IV FLOOR BOXES | € 35,00 | € 24,00 | € 30,00 |
| II GALLERY | € 24,00 | € 16,00 | € 18,00 |
To bring young people even closer to the Opera, the special €15 ticket reserved for under-18 students (stalls sector and boxes I, II and III order) is confirmed.
The participation fee for the ANTEPRIMA GIOVANI is €8.00 per person.
Box capacity: from no. 1 to no. 3: 2 people | from no. 4 to no. 8 and prosceniums: 3 people | from no. 9 to no. 14: 4 people
How to purchase tickets
New subscriptions for the 2025 Opera and Ballet Season will be available from 11th June until 19th June.
Tickets for all individual performances of the 2025 Opera and Ballet Season will be on sale from 24th June.
The Ticket Office is open Tuesday to Friday from 1.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.; closed Sundays, Mondays and public holidays except on performance days.