A new General Music Director, a world premiere and a festival for the composer Albert Lortzing: Oper Leipzig is starting the 2025/26 season with a varied program. At the annual press conference in Leipzig, Artistic Director Tobias Wolff presented the program together with the future General Music Director Ivan Repušić.
This is the last season for Wolff, who has been at the helm of Oper Leipzig since 2022. He is to become director of the Braunschweig State Theater in summer 2026. "The fact that this season is my farewell season in Leipzig due to the early call to the Staatstheater Braunschweig makes me wistful." At the same time, he is looking forward to the coming season, which has a packed program.
A total of 14 premieres are planned between mid-September 2025 and June 2026 - including Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff", directed by Marlene Hahn and conducted by Repušić. The world premiere of the opera "Coming Up for Air", a composition by Bernd Franke based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Sarah Leipciger, has been announced for March 2026.
