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The Cast of the 102nd Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2025

Find out who will be performing on the Arena stage this summer

Discover the cast of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2025

Get ready for a dream summer! The 102nd Arena di Verona Opera Festival is getting closer: the biggest opera stars will soon be back to shine on the stage of the amphitheatre. Amazing voices, hotly-awaited returns, eye-catching debuts: who will you be coming to see?

Discover the 2025 Festival

First times

There is always a first time. Even for stars!

In 2025, at the Arena di Verona, Anna Netrebko will be Abigaille in Nabucco for the first time in Italy, while Marina Rebeka will perform Aida for the first time in Italy. Aleksandra Kurzak will make her debut as the protagonist in Aida next to Roberto Alagna.

Eagerly awaited debuts will be made by the American soprano Angel Blue and Samoan tenor Pene Pati, for the first time ever at the Arena, while soprano Erin Morley and tenor Enea Scala will make their stage debuts.

These are just some of the big stars of the upcoming summer at the Arena di Verona, which from 13 June to 6 September 2025 will feature five opera titles, eight gala concerts and ballets, for 51 evenings of entertainment.

First times: Angel Blue, Pene Pati, Marina Rebeka

The great stars returning in 2025

Once the Arena, forever the Arena. The 102nd Festival will see the return of many much-loved stars.

A few names? Jonas Kaufmann, Nadine Sierra, Luca Salsi, Francesco Meli, Ludovic Tèzier, Yusif Eyvazov, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Anna Pirozzi, Luca Micheletti, Aigul Akhmetshina, Brian Jagde, Mariangela Sicilia, Piotr Beczała, Anita Rachvelishvili, Maria José Siri, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Christian Van Horn, Gregory Kunde, Rosa Feola, Erwin Schrott, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya... and many others, with established artists and promising young talents in supporting roles.

Returning Stars: Luca Salsi, Nadine Sierra, Yusif Eyvazov, Ludovic Tèzier

The conductors of the 2025 Festival

Who will be on the podium of the Fondazione Arena Orchestra?

Pinchas Steinberg will return to the Arena twenty-five years after his debut; also back will be conductors Andrea Battistoni, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Daniel Oren and Michele Spotti. Exciting debuts for Speranza Scappucci - her first opera - and Francesco Ommassini, who will be making his very first appearance at the Arena.

The conductors of the 2025 Festival: Daniel Oren, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Michele Spotti, Speranza Scappucci

All the artists of the 2025 Festival from A to Z

The 102nd Arena di Verona Opera Festival is drawing closer and the world’s leading opera singers are once again getting ready to shine on the stage of the amphitheatre. Have you seen our amazing casts yet? No? Then let us reveal them to you, one by one. Who are you going to come and see?

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