Opéra-comique in three acts (1797)

New Production! Join us for the first ever performance of Cherubini's masterpiece at Naples' San Carlo Theatre - the world's oldest continuously active opera venue - with celebrated soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing her acclaimed interpretation of the tour-de-force title role, which she has performed the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.

The opera recounts the tragic tale of Medea, a mythic sorceress betrayed by her husband Jason (Francesco Demuro), when he chooses to abandon her to marry Glauce (rapidly rising Italian soprano Désirée Giove), the princess of Corinth. Overcome with grief and fury, Medea will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance…

Also in the cast is Anita Rachvelishvili as Medea's confidante, Néris, Giorgi Manoshvili as her father Creon, and Maria Knihnytska and Anastasiia Sagaidak as the handmaidens.

Staged by multi award-winning film and theatre director Mario Martone, with Riccardo Frizza on the podium.