Performances | Next Season

The opening of the Opera and Ballet Season is dedicated to the genius from Salzburg, to mark the Mozart a Verona 2027 Festival.

To crown the complete Brahms cycle undertaken in recent years, Fondazione Arena di Verona is openings its 2027 Symphonic Season with the rarely performed German Requiem.

For the first time, the Arena orchestra is tackling Das Lied von der Erde, Gustav Mahler’s spiritual testament, his true ‘Ninth’ symphony.

The kaleidoscope of colours of the orchestra are the true stars of this programme, centred around the four scenes that Respighi dedicated to the phases of the day and, of course, the unforgettable Fountains of Rome.

For the 2027 Season, Fondazione Arena is exploring new horizons: in March, Verdi’s rarest and least-known opera, Alzira, will be staged in Verona for the first time.

Chen and Cilona, young artists who have already won prestigious awards and are increasingly making waves on the international scene, make their debut with the Fondazione Arena Orchestra in a programme dedicated to the nuances of the 19th century, set against the backdrop of the northern winds.

Love, salvation, freedom: Fidelio conveys, like few other operas, values that transcend the individual story.

The acclaimed pianist Lucas Debargue makes his debut with the Arena’s ensembles, offering a personal interpretation of Schumann’s romantic Concerto, one of the most intense and beloved works in the international repertoire.

Conductor Stepan Armasar makes his debut at the helm of the Fondazione Arena’s ensembles with major symphonic-choral works.

Internationally acclaimed artists, Inkinen and Tamestit, make their debut with the Fondazione Arena Orchestra in a programme dedicated to two of the most revolutionary works in music history.

A rising young talent, the Georgian pianist Khrikuli is making his Verona bow with the Arena orchestra in Rachmaninov’s demanding and much-loved Second Piano Concerto.

A violin virtuoso, who is also making a name for himself as a conductor, the Dane Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider makes his debut with the Fondazione Arena di Verona Orchestra in the dual role of soloist and conductor in Beethoven’s monumental Violin Concerto.

The autumn opera season at the Teatro Filarmonico opens with another Verona premiere: the one-act farce Il Signor Bruschino.

Cristoforo Colombo is an unmissable event in the international opera scene: the story of the man ‘of the New World’ is told through this grand opera, written four hundred years after the discovery of the Americas.

The quintessential Christmas fairy tale, The Nutcracker makes its long-awaited return to Verona after more than thirty years’ absence from the Teatro Filarmonico stage.