‘Les Misérables’ will raise the curtain again in Madrid on September 11, 2026 to begin its second season at the Apollo Theatre with a plot that cannot be ignored: the Spanish production has accumulated 14 awards during 2026, including three different recognitions for Best Musical. The return comes just a month after closing its first run in the capital and in a particularly competitive autumn for Madrid’s musical theatre scene.
The 14 awards backing ‘Les Misérables’ in 2026
The tally stems from three different prizes. At the Talía Awards 2026, awarded by the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts, ‘Les Misérables’ swept the four categories in which it was nominated: Best Musical Theatre Show, Best Actor for Adrián Salcedo, Best Actress for Teresa Ferrer, and Best Musical Direction for Enric García.
To those four recognitions were added nine BroadwayWorld Spain 2026 Audience Awards. The production was chosen as Best Musical and also won in categories such as Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Ensemble, Adaptation, Set Design, Lighting, Video/Stage, and Costume. It was, in fact, the production with the most awards at that edition.
The fourteenth arrived at the Godot Awards 2026, where the ATG Entertainment production received the award for Best Theatrical Musical Work. The sum of the three honours thus positions it as the most awarded musical of the year in Spain.
When does the second season of ‘Les Misérables’ begin in Madrid
After concluding its first season on August 9 following more than 250 performances, ‘Les Misérables’ will return to Madrid’s Apollo Theatre on Friday, September 11. Turismo Madrid confirms that there will be no performances between August 10 and September 10 and currently tickets are on sale through November 1.
According to information provided by ATG Entertainment in its media briefing, this new production has already been seen by more than 250,000 spectators in Madrid. It is a figure from the company itself that reinforces the commercial context of the return, although it does not appear published in the independent sources consulted.
The show runs for approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes, including the intermission, and the recommended age is seven and up. Practical information and ticket sales can be consulted on the production’s official website.
The second season also arrives at a moment quite different from its premiere. As we already analyzed on ActualTV when reviewing the eight major musicals coinciding this autumn in Madrid, September and October will concentrate a particularly strong lineup, with titles such as Wicked, SIX, The Lion King, Dear Evan Hansen, or The Addams Family. For a classic as established as ‘Les Misérables’, the awards also function as a differentiating element in a billboard that is increasingly saturated.
A musical entering its fifth decade in London
The international scale helps explain why this production operates with a brand recognizable even to those who do not regularly follow musical theatre. The official London site currently estimates its history at over 150 million spectators, 57 countries, 455 cities, and 22 languages. The West End production celebrated its 40th anniversary in October 2025 and continues at the Sondheim Theatre into its 41st year.
It is also worth updating here some numbers that are often repeated in promotional materials. Cameron Mackintosh now raises the international tally of ‘Les Misérables’ to **more than 275 major awards**, including eight Tony Awards and five Olivier Awards, counting the special recognition granted in 2025. The film adaptation released in 2012 also won three Oscars.
Madrid also has a special relationship with the work. ‘Les Misérables’ previously played at the Apollo in 1992, before returning to the capital in 2010. The current Cameron Mackintosh production revisited precisely that venue in 2025, coinciding with the London anniversary. On ActualTV we already reviewed the keys of this version and its return to the same theatre.
Jean Valjean, Javert, and a score that remains its best calling card
Based on Victor Hugo’s novel, the musical follows Jean Valjean, a former convict trying to rebuild his life while Inspector Javert relentlessly pursues him. The appearance of Fantine and her daughter Cosette ultimately connects that personal struggle with the young idealists who raise the barricades in a Paris marked by inequality and political turmoil.
The music of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil continues to yield some of the most recognizable pieces in contemporary musical theatre, from I Dreamed a Dream and On My Own to Bring Him Home, Do You Hear the People Sing? and One Day More.
That is probably the main selling point of this second season. ‘Les Misérables’ does not return to Madrid needing an introduction, but faces the opposite challenge: to keep justifying its relevance four decades after its London premiere and to do so on a Madrid bill that has never gathered so many major musicals at the same time.
