Overview
- The season opens on February 1 with Britten and Beethoven, followed on February 8 by a gala in which tenor Arturo Chacón Cruz pays tribute to Mexican popular song.
- The operatic slate begins March 22 with the Mexican premiere of Weill and Brecht’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, conducted by Srba Dinic and staged by Marcelo Lombardero.
- In April the company teams with the National Dance Company to present El amor brujo and La vida breve as a single dramaturgy marking Manuel de Falla’s 150th birth anniversary.
- May features a new Werther with Ramón Vargas in the title role, presented in the context of the Mexico–France cultural bicentennial.
- October brings a new Tosca with Arturo Chacón Cruz, Alfredo Daza and María Fernanda Castillo that the company plans to take to the Festival Internacional Cervantino, before December’s double bill uniting Elena Garro and Luis Sandi’s La señora en su balcón with Cavalleria rusticana as a musicological rescue.