While Cecilia Gasdia, Sovrintendente of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, is touring the major cities to present the 2024 programme of the famous Verona Arena Festival, the 2025 season has already been announced. 2024, the great Puccini year, will of course include the masterpieces Tosca, Turandot and a new Bohème, as well as the eagerly […]
Don Quichotte, the last opera composed by Jules Massenet, will return to the Opéra national de Paris from 10 May to 11 June 2024, after a 20-year absence. Damiano Michieletto‘s new production of Don Quichotte at the Opéra Bastille has been through quite a few upheavals. After the defection of Ildar Abdrazakov and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, […]
Mozart‘s Così fan tutte offers six golden roles, including that of Don Alfonso the cynic. The Orchestre national de Lyon and its conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider are offering two performances of the famous opera, on 24 and 26 May 2024, with the great American baritone Thomas Hampson in the role. Accompanied by young artists and the […]
Paris is the capital of the 2024 Olympic Games, but music lovers are not left out of the equation at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Opéra de Nice. Along with Vivaldi‘s L’Olimpiade, which is very much in the news, the same title will be performed from 30 April to 4 May 2024 at the […]
While enjoying an exemplary career, the young French pianist Jonathan Fournel (winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition) is continuing his meteoric rise. After a recent recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the holy of holies of concert halls, he returns to Beethoven at the Concertgebouw in Bruges this time, with […]
The Verona Arena Festival events have been announced with some exceptional Toscas, including the one on 30 August 2024 featuring Elena Stikhina, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier in the role of the horrible Barone Scarpia. The superstar baritone has a surprise in store for lucky festival-goers where he performs as Amonasro in a deluxe Aida […]
From 19 April to 14 May 2024, the marvellous soprano Nadine Sierra finds herself in the midst of drama when she returns to the iconic role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Katie Mitchell‘s heart-rending and profound staging at London’s Royal Opera House – Covent Garden. Her partner is the superb Xabier Anduaga and Ioan […]
Although he remains the world’s most famous gambist, Jordi Savall is an exciting conductor, leading the Hespèrion XXI ensemble in medieval, Renaissance and Baroque repertoire and Le Concert des Nations in repertoire ranging from Baroque to Romanticism. The great artist is also artistic director of a festival that bears his name. The next Jordi Savall […]
The news has just broken, and it’s bound to make a few waves. At just 28, conductor Klaus Mäkelä has been chosen to succeed Riccardo Muti at the helm of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He will become the eleventh conductor at the start of the 2027/28 season. In 2027, Mäkelä is also due to take […]
