Create new productions

Enriching the repertoire and deepening the dialogue with artists and audiences

Artistic creation lies at the heart of the Paris Opera’s mission. It fuels encounters and dialogue with an ever-growing audience, encourages the rediscovery of rare, forgotten, or recently premiered works from other stages, and supports a new generation of artists. In Paris and across the regions, thanks to the expertise of its costume and set workshops, the Opera contributes to the enrichment of a shared cultural heritage.

Each season, more than a third of the productions presented by the institution are world premieres, new stagings, or additions to the repertoire.

By the numbers

364 curtain raises in 25/26
28 productions in 25/26
18 new productions, including 7 operatic and 11 choreographic, in 25/26
1 new Académie production in 25/26

Recent developments

In recent seasons, rare works (Charpentier’s Médée, Spontini’s La Vestale, Rameau’s Castor et Pollux, Puccini’s Il Trittico) as well as contemporary operas (John Adams’ Nixon in China, Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel, and Pascal Dusapin’s Il Viaggio, Dante) have been presented to the public. In 25/26, the house will offer seven new operatic productions, including, as a world premiere, a staging of Antonia Bembo’s Ercole Amante, as well as new productions of Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera, Verdi’s Aida, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Philip Glass’ opera Satyagraha.
The year 2025 marked the launch of a new cycle of Wagner’s Ring Tetralogy, directed by Calixto Bieito and conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, which continues in 25/26 with Die Walküre and Siegfried, and in 26/27 with Götterdämmerung and the organization of two RING festivals.
For its recent choreographic programming, the Opera has commissioned creations from Marion Motin, Xie Xin, William Forsythe, Sharon Eyal, and Hofesh Shechter. In 25/26, choreographers Imre and Marne van Opstal, Morgann Runacre-Temple and Jessica Wright, Marcos Morau, and Micaela Taylor will present new works during mixed choreographic evenings.

Did you know?

For its 2024 production, the opera La Vestale drew on the exceptional expertise of the workshops in painting and sculpture: trompe-l’œil effects and busts of philosophers were recreated for a set inspired by the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne, a place of learning transformed into a pagan sanctuary.

More than 200 costume silhouettes were created, including long black robes for the choruses, made from fabrics originally acquired for Götterdämmerung.

The large quantity of this black textile, intended to outfit all the male and female choruses of the latter work, which was interrupted by the health crisis, was thus repurposed for Lydia Steier’s production.

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