For its 2025-2026 season, Opéra de Québec offers a joyful foray into Rossini’s Cinderella tale, La Cenerentola, as well as a moving portrait of artists’ lives in 19th-century Paris, with Puccini’s La bohème.
The Opéra de Québec is delighted to call on Québec creators for each of this season’s productions, created by Jean-François Lapointe. For this final program, he has chosen a lesser-known work that will appeal to a wide audience, thanks to its humor and universal theme of the triumph of goodness over arrogance, as well as a favorite opera for which he has assembled a cast of which he is particularly proud.
In terms of musical direction, music lovers are particularly pampered for this season, which features the reassuring presence of Jean-Marie Zeitouni and marks the debut of Clemens Schuldt at the Opéra de Québec. They will be able to maintain the indispensable cohesion between music and theatricality and will deliver a burst of emotions to the audience thanks to the sparkling energy of Rossini and the poignant lyricism of Puccini.
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
er 30, 2025 at 7:30 pm
November 1, 2025 at 2 p.m.
For her first production at the Opéra de Québec, Véronika Makdissi-Warren brings to life her passion for clowning and unleashes her talent for youth productions with a transposition of Rossini’s La Cenerentola into the bubbling world of fashion. Here, it’s no longer a prince looking for his princess, but rather a haute couture designer in search of his new muse. It’s a proposition that will appeal to young fashionistas as well as fans of marvelous tales of all ages.
May 16, 2026 at 7:30 pm
May 19, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
May 21, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
May 23, 2026 at 2 p.m.
La bohème is one of opera’s most beautiful love stories. A flame that burns brightly, only to be extinguished too soon… This production marks Clemens Schuldt’s debut at the Opéra de Québec. The conductor’s complicity with his orchestra brings a unique energy to the production, which offers its fabulous cast the ideal musical setting in which to shine. And we can count on Jacques Leblanc’s talent as stage director to move us with this magnificent poetry of everyday life!
