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Tosca

Cond. Pablo Mielgo

An all-star line-up for an operatic classic: Puccini’s Tosca comes to Festival Cap Rocat with a cast boasting rare vocal firepower. Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen takes the title role, with Freddie de Tommaso as Tosca’s lover, the painter Cavaradossi. French baritone Ludovic Tézier appears in one of his signature roles as the vengeful, manipulative police chief Scarpia. It adds up to three of today’s great voices in one of opera’s most gripping confrontations of love, power, faith and violence. For this concert performance from August 2026, Pablo Mielgo conducts the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands in Cap Rocat’s breathtaking setting. For sheer star quality, this Tosca promises to be a major operatic event.

Carmen

Cond. Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan was a pioneer in countless ways, and few great 20th-century conductors were swifter to embrace the possibilities of film and television. Even today, this 1967 movie of Karajan’s Salzburg Festival production of Bizet’s Carmen feels ahead of its time – a wonderfully colourful reimagination of the original staging, which combines the immediacy of a live theatrical performance with a truly cinematic flair. But at its heart is a line-up of performers who practically set the stage on fire, with two unquestioned greats – the American mezzo Grace Bumbry and the inimitable Jon Vickers – as Carmen and Don José.

The Barber of Seville

Cond. Jérémie Rohrer

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia is the perfect Italian comic opera – fast, fizzy and very, very funny, with a heart as warm as the Spanish sun. But Beaumarchais, the play's original author, was French, and in 2017 director Laurent Pelly brought the Barber back to its roots at Paris's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with a staging that combined a spirited period-instrument orchestra with an unmistakably Gallic sensibility. The result sparkles like champagne, with Jérémie Rhorer conducting and a cast (headed by Florian Sempey, with Catherine Trottman as a vivacious Rosina) that's as delightful to watch as it is to hear.

Melancholia

On the day of her wedding, Justine suddenly sees a red star in the sky: the planet Melancholia is coming dangerously close to Earth. In an attempt to calm her down, her husband Michael lavishes all his love on her, while her cold and callous mother, Gaby, only adds to her distress. Her sister Claire tries to comfort her with her kindness, but no one can contain the mysterious forces ignited within Justine. And Melancholia is getting closer and closer...