Paris steals the show with next season’s operas

Alexander Neef and Gustavo Dudamel have eight eye-catching new shows and plenty of star vehicles in their shop window.

The former include Lise Davidsen as Salome, Radvanovsky as Turandot and Benjamin Bernheim as Hoffmann.

Among the new shows are Kirill Serebrennikov’s French debut with Piotr Beczała as Lohengrin; a Peter Sellars working of Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda; Charpentier’s Médée directed by David McVicar, conducted by William Christie; the return of Spontini’s La Vestale, unstaged in French since 1857; Massenet’s Don Quixote with Ildar Abdrazakov (maybe); Kurt Weill’s Street Scene and the French premiere of Thomas Ades’s The Exterminating Angel in a Calixto Bieito production.

Full pack here.

The opera house at the other end of the Eurostar will struggle to match that razzle-dazzle.