Barocktage 2026

from 7 to 27 November

Since the 1990s, performances from the diverse repertoire of Baroque opera with ensembles that specialize in the playing style of the period have been part of the Staatsoper’s profile.

At the Barocktage 2026, the range of performances will stretch from works from the very first decades of the opera as a genre to a central work from over one hundred years later, the end of the Baroque period. As in the very first operas, the mythical figure of the singer Orpheus is central to Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Before mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartoli returns to the Staatsoper in this title role, tenor Rolando Villazón will explore the musical facets of the figure since Claudio Monteverdi in a concert. Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas will return once more to the stage with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and the ensemble with also perform a concert. Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L’Arpeggiata will also perform several times, particularly in Stefan Herheim’s new production of Francesco Cavalli’s fascinating opera La Calisto.

Eröffnungskonzert
Barocktage 2026


Works by Claudio Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, Antonio Sartorio, Lorenzo Allegri and Maurizio Cazzati


Theorbe, Director: Christina Pluhar


With Rolando Villazón, Céline Scheen a. o.
Ensemble L’Arpeggiata


7 November 2026


Dates & Tickets

La Calisto
Francesco Cavalli


Musical Director: Christina Pluhar
Director: Stefan Herheim


With Vera-Lotte Boecker a. o.
Ensemble L‘Arpeggiata
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin


Premiere at 8 November 2026


Dates & Tickets

Orfeo ed Euridice
Christoph Willibald Gluck


Musical Director: Gianluca Capuano
Semi-staged setting: Davide Livermore


With Cecilia Bartoli a. o.
Il Canto di Orfeo
Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco


12   14 November 2026


Dates & Tickets

L’incoronazione di Poppea
Claudio Monteverdi


Musical Director: Diego Fasolis
Director: Diego Fasolis


With Raffaele Pe, Anna Prohaska, Anna Kissjudit a. o.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin


20   22   24   26 November 2026


Dates & Tickets

Dido & Aeneas
Henry Purcell


Musical Director: Christopher Moulds
Staging, choreograpy: Sasha Waltz


With Natalia Skrycka, Gyula Orendt , Aphrodite Patoulidou a. o.
Tänzer:innen der Compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests Vocalconsort Berlin
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin


25   27 November 2026


Dates & Tickets

Lamento mirabile
Barocktage-Concert


Works by Georg Friedrich Händel
and Giovanni Battista Ferrandini 


With Roberta Mameli, Bernhard Forck
Mitglieder der Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin


9 November 2026


Dates & Tickets

Monteverdi a solo
Barocktage-Concert


Works by Claudio Monteverdi,
Giovanni Paolo Cima,  Dario Castello a. o. 


With Raffaele Pe
Ensemble La Lira di Orfeo


15 November 2026


Dates & Tickets

Wonder Women
Barocktage-Concert


Works by Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini,
Francesco Cavalli, Claudio Monteverdi a. o.


With Luciana Mancini und Christina Pluhar
Ensemble L’Arpeggiata


17 November 2026


Dates & Tickets

November

Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Barocktage 2026

Eröffnungskonzert Barocktage 2026

Combattimento – Liebe, die in den Tod führt

Works by

Claudio Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, Antonio Sartorio, Lorenzo Allegri und Maurizio Cazzati

Cast

  • Theorbe, Leitung:
    Christina Pluhar
  • Orfeo, Testo:
    Rolando Villazón
  • Euridice, Clorinda:
    Céline Scheen
  • Messagiera:
    Luciana Mancini
  • Tancredi:
    Renato Dolcini
  • et al.
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Premiere,
  • Barocktage 2026

La Calisto

Francesco Cavalli

Cast

  • Musical Director:
    Christina Pluhar
  • Director:
    Stefan Herheim
  • Calisto:
    Vera-Lotte Boecker
  • Giove:
    Milan Siljanov
  • Mercurio:
    Renato Dolcini
  • Giunone, Eternità:
    Giuseppina Bridelli
  • Endimione, Natura:
    Arnaud Gluck
  • et al.
€  ​  115  100  80​  62  42  29​  15  11
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Barocktage 2026

Orfeo ed Euridice

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Cast

  • Musical Director:
    Gianluca Capuano
  • Halbszenische Einrichtung:
    Davide Livermore
  • Orfeo:
    Cecilia Bartoli
  • Euridice, Amore:
    Mélissa Petit
  • et al.
    • Il Canto di Orfeo,
    • Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Barocktage 2026

La Calisto

Francesco Cavalli

Cast

  • Musical Director:
    Christina Pluhar
  • Director:
    Stefan Herheim
  • Calisto:
    Vera-Lotte Boecker
  • Giove:
    Milan Siljanov
  • Mercurio:
    Renato Dolcini
  • Giunone, Eternità:
    Giuseppina Bridelli
  • Endimione, Natura:
    Arnaud Gluck
  • et al.
€  ​  100  85  73​  58  38  25​  12  10
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Barocktage 2026,
  • For the last time this season

Orfeo ed Euridice

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Cast

  • Musical Director:
    Gianluca Capuano
  • Halbszenische Einrichtung:
    Davide Livermore
  • Orfeo:
    Cecilia Bartoli
  • Euridice, Amore:
    Mélissa Petit
  • et al.
    • Il Canto di Orfeo,
    • Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Barocktage 2026

La Calisto

Francesco Cavalli

Cast

  • Musical Director:
    Christina Pluhar
  • Director:
    Stefan Herheim
  • Calisto:
    Vera-Lotte Boecker
  • Giove:
    Milan Siljanov
  • Mercurio:
    Renato Dolcini
  • Giunone, Eternità:
    Giuseppina Bridelli
  • Endimione, Natura:
    Arnaud Gluck
  • et al.
€  ​  100  85  73​  58  38  25​  12  10
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Apollosaal
  • Barocktage 2026

Wonder Women

Barocktage-Konzert
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Barocktage 2026

La Calisto

Francesco Cavalli

Cast

  • Musical Director:
    Christina Pluhar
  • Director:
    Stefan Herheim
  • Calisto:
    Vera-Lotte Boecker
  • Giove:
    Milan Siljanov
  • Mercurio:
    Renato Dolcini
  • Giunone, Eternità:
    Giuseppina Bridelli
  • Endimione, Natura:
    Arnaud Gluck
  • et al.
€  ​  100  85  73​  58  38  25​  12  10
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Family Performance,
  • Barocktage 2026,
  • For the last time this season

La Calisto

Francesco Cavalli

Cast

  • Musical Director:
    Christina Pluhar
  • Director:
    Stefan Herheim
  • Calisto:
    Vera-Lotte Boecker
  • Giove:
    Milan Siljanov
  • Mercurio:
    Renato Dolcini
  • Giunone, Eternità:
    Giuseppina Bridelli
  • Endimione, Natura:
    Arnaud Gluck
  • et al.
€  ​  100  85  73​  58  38  25​  12  10
Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Barocktage 2026,
  • For the last time this season

L’incoronazione di Poppea

Claudio Monteverdi
Duration: approx. 3:45 hrs including one interval after act one

Cast

Start of ticket sales on 18. April 2026 12.00 noon.