The Teatro Real in Madrid welcomes his public again since July 1, 2020. 27 performances of Verdi’s La Traviata are scheduled for a limited number of music lovers with strict health and safety measures imposed by the pandemic. Despite all these precautions, Violeta will die on stage, every night in a cough! Photo : […]
Even if New York City has started a gradual deconfinement since June 8, 2020, caution remains the thing to do. The American Ballet Theater has just canceled its fall season while Carnegie Hall, the legendary concert hall has announced that it will only open its doors on January 7, 2021. In the same spirit, the […]
The new musical director of the Orchestre de Paris is twice in the News. It was the suspense of the Parisian season. Finally, the name has been revealed and it’s a nice surprise. Klaus Mäkelä was born in Helsinski in 1996. He therefore became the youngest music director ever appointed and also the eighth. According […]
It was to be a highlight of the Paris season. As part of the Étés de la Danse at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Christopher Wheeldon was supposed to present his own version of Cinderella, danced by the Dutch National Ballet, and Paris was to finally discover the breathtaking Giselle, revisited by choreographer Akram Khan for […]
On his website, the famous company Opera Australia offers recent opera productions (Puccini’s Turandot & Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s Aida & La Traviata, …) but also some gems starring the great Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland such as Delibe’s Lakmé, Donizetti’z Lucrezia Borgia, Lehár’s The Merry Widow with Marilyn Horne and a historic gala concert at […]
While bad news are still coming from across the Atlantic with season cancellation announcements (the San Francisco Opera will not reopen until spring 2021), this is a good news to brighten up the lyric scene in Europe. The famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice is about to welcome audiance again from July 5, 2020 with […]
Hard times also for the Opera Contests since the edition of the Long Thibaud Crespin Singing competition, scheduled for November 2020, the Paris Opera Competition which was supposed to take place at the Palais Garnier in January 21 and Operalia the famous Placido Domingo competition expected in October in Tel Aviv are all postponed. […]
The greatest Festival in the world, the Salzburger Festspiele was pugnacious enough to maintain what was to be its 100th edition. Scheduled over 30 days it will open on August 1, 2020. As usual great artists are announced but a big part of the special events scheduled for the 100th anniversary are postponed to 2021. The […]
Before a great 2020-2021 season, the Dresden Semperoper unexpectedly ends its 19-20 season with excerpts from Verdi’s Don Carlo performed by superstar Anna Netrebko and tenor Yusif Eyvazov. A Beethoven concert conducted by Christian Thielemann is also scheduled for a restricted audience obeying the current hygiene regulations… Photo : Anna Netrebko et Yusif Eyvazov © Julian Hargreaves
Dear readers, Each year, many of you look forward to the release of the new Music & Opera Guide around the World. As you know, the unprecedented crisis that we are still going through has considerably changed cultural life by imposing silence in the halls where classical music usually resonates. Even if Operas and Concert […]
