While the competition is in full swing at the Concours Voix Nouvelles, which has revealed Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout, Karine Deshayes, Anne Catherine Gillet, Eva Zaicik, etc., one candidate has already made a name for herself by winning first prize in another competition. Lauranne Oliva, a 23-year-old French soprano, has just won first prize and […]
After his hugely successful performance as Posa in Geneva’s Don Carlos, Stéphane Degout is continuing his love affair with the public, who will soon see him again at the Philharmonie de Paris, on 12 October 2023, in Georges Benjamin’s opera Lessons in Love and Violence. The music lover’s favourite contemporary composer composed this opera with […]
The great conductor Franz Welser-Möst, former Music Director of the Vienna Opera and current Principal Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, will not be making his comeback as expected. Stricken with cancer, he has just undergone surgery, which now requires rest and treatment. He is therefore forced to cancel his engagements until the end of the […]
With the Rossini Opera Festival 2023 barely over, the titles of the 2024 season have just been announced. On the programme for this 45th edition, five operas by the great Rossini will be performed from 7 to 23 August 2024. Bianca e Falliero, in a new production by Jean-Louis Grinda, will open the festival, followed […]
The Orchestre national de Lyon will not be returning to the stage in September, as is the case for most major orchestras, but in October. The reason is simple: for the whole of September, the auditorium’s Grande Salle will be closed for acoustic work. A grand re-opening has therefore been announced, with three prestigious concerts […]
2024 is sure to be a great Puccini year to mark the hundredth anniversary of his death. The Opernhaus Zürich has decided not to wait, programming La rondine, a delicate masterpiece that will be performed for the very first time in Switzerland! From 17 September 2023, the sensitive Ermonela Jaho and the magnificent Benjamin Bernheim […]
With its legendary acoustics, Carnegie Hall has announced a number of changes for the new 2023-2024 season. The talented young pianist Alexandre Kantorow has confirmed that he will replace Maurizio Pollini on 22 October 2023. Handel’s Rodelinda gets a new cast (December 10). The Boston Symphony Orchestra adds a new work by Tania León to […]
Has William Tell’s homeland become the new land of ecology? While the Gstaad Menuhin Festival is committed to the subject of protecting nature by tackling the theme of global change (notably with Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s ‘Music for the Planet’ concert series), it is the Lucerne Festival that has just made headlines. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski was conducting […]
Nancy’s superb opera house, set on the Place Stanislas, will open its 2023-2024 season with Mozart‘s early opera, the great masterpiece Idomeneo, on 29 September 2023. In the meantime, the Opéra is organising a competition in partnership with Vitrines de Nancy. To take part, all you have to do is visit one of the participating […]
In Paris, the Opéra-Comique, always at the cutting edge, is preparing to host (from 27 September to 5 October 2023) La Fille de Madame Angot, a huge popular success by Charles Lecocq. Under the musical direction of Hervé Niquet, Richard Brunel‘s staging brings together the great names of Hélène Guilmette, Véronique Gens, Pierre Derhet, Julien […]
