Festival Cap Rocat 2026
For three evenings at the height of summer, a 19th-century coastal fortress on the southern tip of the Bay of Palma becomes one of the Mediterranean's most spectacular opera stages. Festival Cap Rocat 2026 runs 31 July–2 August, staging opera and classical galas in the open-air amphitheatre of the Cap Rocat fortress (now a Small Luxury Hotel of the World) at Cala Blava, just south of Palma. The festival opens on 31 July with a Grand Opera Gala headlined by Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez — one of the most celebrated voices in opera today — alongside conductor Pablo Mielgo, the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears and the Festival Cap Rocat Choir, sweeping from Rossini's bel canto through Verdi and Offenbach to Spanish zarzuela. Across the three nights the bill also brings soprano Lise Davidsen, tenor Freddie De Tommaso and baritone Ludovic Tézier, under the artistic direction of Ilias Tzempetonidis. Seating is limited and the setting is the draw as much as the music — book well ahead.
