Vanessa by Samuel Barber, with a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, opens the Festival with a new production directed by Leo Muscato. On the podium, South Korean conductor Sora Elisabeth Lee leads the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Coro del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, alongside an internationally acclaimed vocal cast.

Rambert, the United Kingdom’s longest-established dance company, celebrates its centenary with a programme that gives voice to stories yet to be told, capturing the rhythm and intensity of modern life through choreography by (LA)HORDE, Emma Evelein and Bobbi Jene Smith.

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The renowned director Peter Stein takes on Platonov, the early and unfinished play in which Anton Chekhov portrays a brilliant and captivating man who is nevertheless unable to find his place in the world.

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MIKA revisits some of his most beloved songs in a symphonic setting, accompanied by orchestra and chorus conducted by Simon Leclerc, creating a striking concert that highlights both the vibrant energy and the more intimate side of his repertoire.

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Among the world’s most sought-after conductors, Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to Italy after an eight-year absence to lead the London Symphony Orchestra and pianist Yuja Wang in a programme devoted to two giants of the twentieth century: Sergei Prokofiev and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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