Classical Music & Opera in Málaga

Málaga has a full classical-music season built around its own symphony orchestra, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga (OFM), which plays a regular subscription series at Teatro Cervantes from autumn through to early summer, usually conducted by a different guest conductor for each programme and often featuring an international soloist.

Teatro Cervantes also hosts the city's Lyric Season, bringing opera productions to its stage, and other venues around the province schedule classical recitals, zarzuela (Spanish light opera) and orchestral concerts through the year, including seasonal programmes such as the Soho's Christmas and Lent concerts.

Most orchestral and operatic programmes need no Spanish at all beyond the printed programme notes, since the music itself carries the evening; zarzuela, on the other hand, is sung and spoken in Spanish throughout, so it's marked separately below.

Below are the upcoming classical and opera dates we've translated into English, in chronological order.