The Royal Opera Festival is undoubtedly the greatest showcase of bel canto in Kraków. This year’s event, centred on Gioachino Rossini, will feature three operas by the ‘King of Beautiful Song’ - the farcical L'occasione fa il ladro (stage version), Semiramide, with the title role written for Isabella Colbran, the composer’s wife and muse (concert version), and the opera semiseria The Thieving Magpie (stage version, in collaboration with the Kraków Opera Summer Festival). The programme will be rounded off with Mass in E flat major by Franciszek Mirecki, a largely forgotten Polish composer, for whom Rossini-style Italian comic opera remained the ultimate ideal throughout his life, and Marina, the most famous zarzuela by Emilio Arrieta, which, amidst its Spanish rhythms, clearly reveals that its composer had studied music in Italy.

27 June 2026, 6pm
Kraków Philharmonic
Gioachino Rossini L’occasione fa il ladro (stage version)
Parmenione: Filippo Morace
Martino: Giovanni Accardi
Alberto: Davide Zaccherini
Berenice: Ilaria Monteverdi
Ernestina: Gaja Vittoria Pellizzari
Zio: Timoteo Bene
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra
Jacopo Brussa – conductor
Jochen Schönleber – direction
Eleonora Calabro – assistant director

28 June 2026, 6pm
The Remembrance Museum of Land of Oświęcim Residents
Ilaria Monteverdi – soprano
Davide Zaccherini – tenor
Programme to be announced

4 July 2026, 6pm
Museum of Tarnów Land in Tarnów
Ilaria Monteverdi – soprano
Davide Zaccherini – tenor
Programme to be announced

4 June 2026, 7pm
Consulate General of the Republic of Austria in Kraków
Waldkonzert
Franciszek Mirecki Mass in E-flat major
Kraków Philharmonic Choir
Agnieszka Ignaszewska-Magiera – choir preparation
Alexander Humala – conductor

5 July 2026, 5pm
Kraków Philharmonic
Gioachino Rossini Semiramide (concert version)
Semiramide: Diana Haller
Arsace: Marina Viotti
Assur: Mark Kurmanbayev
Idrène: Patrick Kabongo
Oroes: Nathanaėl Tavernier
Azema: Ilaria Monteverdi
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Agnieszka Ignaszewska-Magiera – choir preparation
Andriy Yurkevych – conductor

11 July 2026, 6pm
Kraków Philharmonic
Emilio Arrieta Marina (concert version)
Marina: Maylin Cruz
Jorge: Antoni Lliteres
Roque: Pietro Spagnoli
Pascual: Emmanuel Franco
Teresa: Gaja Vittoria Pellizzari
Mensajero: Giovanni Accardi
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Agnieszka Ignaszewska-Magiera – choir preparation
José Miguel Pérez-Sierra – conductor

16 July 2026, 7:30pm
18 July 2026, 5pm
Kraków Opera
Gioachino Rossini The Thieving Magpie (stage version)
Giannetto: Patrick Kabongo
Ninetta: Claudia Muschio
Pippo: Francesca Di Sauro
Podesta: Nathanaėl Tavernier
Fernando: Emmanuel Franco
Fabrizio: Matteo Torcaso
Lucia: Gaja Vittoria Pellizzari
Isacco, Pretore: Davide Zaccherini
Antonio: Timoteo Bene
Ernesto, Giorgio: Giovanni Accardi
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Agnieszka Ignaszewska-Magiera – choir preparation
José Miguel Pérez-Sierra – conductor

The map shows Kraków locations of the festival.