was cut short due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, on which the COC ceased all productions after March 2020 due to restrictions on large indoor gatherings. The COC hoped to restart the shortened 2020/2021 theatre season by January 2021, however on October 6, 2020, company management announced that the entire 2020/2021 COC theatre season was cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic. Neef became director general of the Paris Opera in September 2020 and was replaced by Briton Perryn Leech in March 2021. Recent productions 2008/2009 season Mozart: Don Giovanni Prokofiev: War and Peace Beethoven: Fidelio Dvořák: Rusalka Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Puccini: La bohème Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream 2009/2010 season Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini The Nightingale and Other Short Fables by Igor Stravinsky Carmen by Georges Bizet Otello by Giuseppe Verdi The Flying Dutchman (opera) by Richard Wagner Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 2010/2011 season Aida by Giuseppe Verdi Death in Venice (opera) by Benjamin Britten The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Nixon in China by John Adams (composer) La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck 2011/2012 season Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi Tosca by Giacomo Puccini L'Amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach Eine florentinische Tragödie by Alexander von Zemlinsky Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini Semele (Handel) by George Frideric Handel 2012/2013 season Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Salome (opera) by Richard Strauss Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti 2013/2014 season La bohème by Giacomo Puccini Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi Hercules (Handel) by George Frideric Handel Roberto Devereux by Gaetano Donizetti Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet 2014/2015 season Falstaff (opera) by Giuseppe Verdi Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Walküre by Richard Wagner The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg 2015/2016 season La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi Pyramus and Thisbe by Barbara Monk Feldman Siegfried (opera) by Richard Wagner The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Carmen by Georges Bizet Maometto II