Discover the entire 2025-2026 program of the Nice Opera

And there you have it, a new Glass! Cheers, ladies and gentlemen!

Bertrand Rossi, director of the Nice Opera, will open the 2025-2026 season with a new opera by Philip Glass, Satyagraha , a repeat of his brilliant performance four years ago, when he programmed Akhnaten by the same composer. The video of this performance has been viewed tens of thousands of times around the world.

The announcement of the new Nice opera season has just been made. In a gloomy French theatrical climate where many venues are downsizing, the Nice Opera is in good spirits, holding firm, and not reducing the number of its performances.

Through his artistic choices, which exude a hint of audacity, and through the proliferation of activities surrounding the shows, his director is trying to attract new audiences. He asks "to come with a free spirit." This will be the season's slogan.

Operas from the great repertoire

After Satyagraha , other operas from the great repertoire will be on the program, including Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito , in a production by the Lab collective (author of the productions of Russalka and Juliette ou la clé des songes in recent seasons), and Don Pasquale by Donizetti, under the direction of a great specialist in Italian opera, Giuliano Carella.

Puccini's "Villi" will complete the presentation of this composer's early operas, which began successfully this season with Edgardo , and finally Verdi's La Traviata , in which we will find the soprano Katryn Lewek, the American who has already triumphed in Nice in Lakmé and Lucia di Lammermoor.

This will be complemented by an evening of Chansons de Paris , as part of the operetta festival (November 22), and the Broadway Company musical (November 29 and 30).

Symphonic...

The opera's new artistic organization will include the presence of the brilliant Lionel Bringuier from Nice as honorary conductor and the remarkable Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg as director of dance (read elsewhere).

Three of the six symphony concerts will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Shostakovich's death. The composer's fifteenth symphony will be conducted by one of his greatest specialists, Oleg Caetani. A source of pride for Nice: two pianists born in the city, both with international careers, will be among the soloists, David Kadouch and Marie-Josèphe Jude.

...And dancing

Dance is not forgotten in the program, modernity will alternate with tradition, with choreographers like Cherkaoui or Nunes in their De Loin en loin (from October 23 to 31) as well as a version of The Nutcracker seen at Benjamin Millepied (from December 17 to 31). Beautiful evenings in prospect of slippers sliding and hearts beating!

Finally, from March 28 to April 5, it's time for Après la pluie, by Ulysses Dove and Pontus Lidberg. Pontus Lidberg, the great Swedish choreographer appointed director of dance at the Nice Opera, arrived following the painful death of Eric Vu An, whose absence still weighs on our hearts.

All kinds of entertainment

Expanding his horizons in all directions, Bertrand Rossi aims to attract young people, seeking movement and momentum. He will be offering... a metal evening on September 6 and a rock opera on June 20 and 21.

It will be bringing back the dinners on stage, afterworks, Veglione, jazz café, escape game, and activities for toddlers that were so popular this year. It will also be adding a "Tous en scène" event for children of all ages and another, "Pitchoun Philharmonique," for children under 3.

Starting this summer, an XXL operation – or rather a 360-degree one – will take place: the opera house will be transformed into a magic lantern, offering a three-dimensional light show that will allow visitors to immerse themselves in the world of lyric art and discover its backstage secrets.

The opera is not a closed temple. It's an open window. And even, in Nice, a balcony overlooking the sea.