Lucio Gallo, Olena Tokar, Nicole Chevalier, Piotr Buszewski & Daniel de Vicente Lead Oper Leipzig’s 2025-26 Season
By Francisco SalazarOper Leipzig has announced its 2025-26 season.
Premieres
A new production of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” will be performed with Sarah Traubel, Gabrielė Kupšytė, Franz Xaver Schlecht, Matthias Winckhler, Josh Lovell, Matthias Stier, Samantha Gaul, Mirjam Neururer, Sejong Chang, and Tuomas Pursio. Matthias Foremny and Yura Yang conduct the new production by Katharina Thoma.
Performance Dates: Sept. 13, 2025-May 23, 2026
Lucio Gallo leads a new production of Verdi’s “Falstaff” with Mathias Hausmann, Sungho Kim, Matthias Stier, Solen Mainguené, Olena Tokar, Samantha Gaul, and Ulrike Schneider. Ivan Repušić conducts the production by Marlene Hahn.
Performance Dates: Oct. 11, 2025-Jan 18, 2026
Bernd Franke’s “Coming up for Air” will star Samantha Gaul, Gabrielė Kupšytė, Marie-Luise Dreßen, Franz Xaver Schlecht, Debord Ulrike Schneider, Maya Gour, Einar Dagur Jónsson, Randall Jakobsh, Sejong Chang, and Dan Karlström. Matthias Foremny conducts the production by Florentine Klepper.
Performance Dates: March 14-April 19, 2026
Albert Lortzing’s “Regina” will be conducted by Constantin Trinks and directed by Bernd Mottl. The production will star Yorck Felix Speer, Peter Dolinšek, Jacquelyn Wagner, Solen Mainguené, Tuomas Pursio, Mathias Hausmann, Andreas Hermann, Matthias Stier, Peter Dolinšek, Randall Jakobsh, Dan Karlström, Daniel Arnaldos, Nora Lentner, Mirjam Neururer, and Marie-Luise Dreßen.
Performance Dates: April 25-June 12, 2026
“Pit und Paula – Frisch versalzen” will be performed.
Performance Dates: June 27-July 5, 2026
Repertoire
Yura Yang conducts Bellini’s “Norma” with Andrea Shin, Yorck Felix Speer, Randall Jakobsh, Nicole Chevalier, and Kathrin Göring.
Performance Dates: Sept. 7-Nov. 2, 2025
Offenbach’s “Orpheus in der Unterwelt” will be conducted by Tobias Engeli and star Mirjam Neururer, Jeffery Krueger, Milko Milev, Da-yung Cho, Nora Lentner, Olivia Delauré, Sabine Töpfer, Michael Raschle, and Andreas Rainer.
Performance Dates: Sept. 27-Oct. 12, 2025
Athanasia Zöhrer, Kathrin Göring, Piotr Buszewski, and Daniel de Vicente star in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” with Ivan Repušić conducting.
Performance Dates: Oct. 17, 2025-Jan. 17, 2026
Kálmán’s “Die Csárdásfürstin” will be conducted by Tobias Engeli and Christoph-Johannes Eichhorn and will star Friederike Meinke, Da-yung Cho, Andreas Rainer, Patrick Rohbeck, Hans-Georg Pachmann, and Milko Milev.
Performance Dates: Oct. 18, 2025-Feb. 8, 2026
Yura Yang, Ivan Repušić, and Christoph Gedschold conduct Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” with Yorck Felix Speer, Peter Dolinšek, Randall Jakobsh, David Fischer, Matthias Stier, Maximilian Mayer, Julia Sitkovetsky, Regina Koncz, Ylva Stenberg, Sophia Theodorides, Olena Tokar, Samantha Gaul, Franz Xaver Schlecht, Jonathan Michie, Alice Chinaglia, and Amelie Petrich
Performance Dates: Nov. 7, 2025-May 24, 2026
Samuel Emanuel conducts a Lauschkonzert with the Orchester Gewandhausorchester.
Performance Dates: Nov. 13, 2025-June 7, 2026
Yura Yang, Mark Rohde, Christoph Gedschold, and Friedrich Praetorius will conduct Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” with Kathrin Göring, Ulrike Schneider, Maya Gour, Gabrielė Kupšytė, Sandra Maxheimer, Olena Tokar, Samantha Gaul, Franziska Krötenheerdt, Nina Schumertl, Rosamond Thomas, Paul Kaufmann, Einar Dagur Jónsson, and Dan Karlström.
Performance Dates: Nov. 23-Dec. 26, 2025
Solen Mainguené and Olena Tokar star as Mimi in Puccini’s “La Boheme” with Samantha Gaul as Musetta, Matthias Stier and Sungho Kim as Rodolfo, Franz Xaver Schlecht as Marcello, Frieder Flesch as Schaunard, and Peter Dolinšek and Sejong Chang as Colline. Ivan Repušić conducts.
Performance Dates: Dec. 5, 2025-Jan. 24, 2026
Tobias Engeli and Michael Nündel conduct the “Advent im Alten Rathaus” with Nora Lentner and Milko Milev.
Performance Dates: Dec. 8 & 9, 2025
Christoph-Johannes Eichhorn conducts “Adventskonzert des Vereins der Freunde der Musikalischen Komödie e. V.” with soloists Anne-Kathrin Fischer, Angela Mehling, Dagmar Zeromska, Nicola Heinecker, Michael Raschle, and Radoslaw Rydlewski.
Performance Date: Dec. 19, 2025
The company will hold a New Year’s Gala.
Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2025 & Jan. 1, 2026
Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung” will star Thomas Mohr, Mathias Hausmann, Tuomas Pursio, and Yorck Felix Speer. Ulf Schirmer conducts.
Performance Dates: Jan. 10 & 25, 2026
Michael Nündel leads the New Year’s concert with Friederike Meinke, Mirjam Neururer, Nora Lentner, Milko Milev, and Andreas Rainer.
Performance Dates: Jan. 10 & 11, 2026
Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer” will star Ingela Brimberg, Ulrike Schneider, Egils Silins, Randall Jakobsh, and Brenden Gunnell. A second cast includes Martina Welschenbach and Yorck Felix Speer. Ivan Repušić and Yura Yang conduct.
Performance Dates: Jan. 16-March 8, 2026
Johann Strauß’ “Die Fledermaus” will be conducted by Michael Nündel and Tobias Engeli. The cast includes Friederike Meinke, Da-yung Cho, Mirjam Neururer, Olivia Delauré, Jeffery Krueger, Adam Sánchez, Marie-Luise Dreßen, Nora Steuerwald, Michael Raschle, Sebastian Seitz, and Ivo Kovrigar.
Performance Dates: Jan. 24-April 12, 2026
Sarah Traubel, Matthias Stier, and Franz Xaver Schlecht star in Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Yura Yang and Christoph Gedschold alternate at the podium.
Performance Dates: Feb. 28-May 31, 2026
Ekaterina Sannikova, Kathrin Göring, Carlos Cardoso, and Mathias Hausmann star in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Christoph Gedschold conducting.
Performance Dates: May 20-April 5, 2026
Albert Lortzing’s “Zar und Zimmermann” will be conducted by Michael Nündel and will star Mirjam Neururer, Elissa Huber, Elvira Dreßen, Sabine Töpfer, Esther Maria Rose, Franz Xaver Schlecht, Ivo Kovrigar, Jeffery Krueger, Milko Milev, Frieder Flesch, Michael Raschle, Adam Sánchez, and Felix Strötzel.
Performance Dates: March 10-May 1, 2026
Elisabeth Teige, Ulrike Schneider, Daniel Frank, Yorck Felix Speer, Mathias Hausmann, and Einar Dagur Jónsson star in Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” with Ivan Repušić conducting.
Performance Dates: March 29 & April 11, 2026
Albert Lortzing’s “Undine” will be revived with Olena Tokar, Matthias Stier, Mathias Hausmann, Sejong Chang, Kathrin Göring, Sarah Traubel, Dan Karlström, Peter Dolinšek, and Randall Jakobsh. Yura Yang conducts.
Performance Date: April 30, 2026
Matthias Foremny conducts Bizet’s “Carmen” with Irakli Kakhidze, Tuomas Pursio, Maya Gour, Olena Tokar, and Solen Mainguené.
Performance Dates: May 9-June 7, 2026
Rubén Dubrovsky conducts Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” with Yuriy Mynenko, Peter Dolinšek, Ulrike Schneider, Gabrielė Kupšytė, Olga Jelínková, Rémy Brès-Feuillet, Franz Xaver Schlecht, and Nora Steuerwald.
Performance Dates: June 13-27, 2026
Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” will star Brenden Gunnell, Tuomas Pursio, Mathias Hausmann, Dan Karlström, Ulrike Schneider, Solen Mainguené, and Maya Gour. Christoph Gedschold conducts.
Performance Dates: June 20-28, 2026
Concerts
Olena Tokar performs a Lieder recital.
Performance Date: Jan. 29, 2026
