It was to be expected. After the announcement of the end of all performances for the entire 2020-2021 season, the MET Orchestra in New York cancelled its European tour in June and July 2021. Yannick Nézet-Séguin was supposed to conduct the great orchestra at the Philharmonie with a much-anticipated Berlioz concert, performed by Joyce DiDonato. […]

On 3 November 2020 in Paris, the hall under the dome of the rue de Volny welcomes (at 7pm) the 54th Instant Lyrique with a recital by the marvellous soprano Sandrine Piau. The soprano leads an exemplary career in all discretion. Her latest recording of melodies (Si j’ai aimé) has just been awarded the prestigious […]

Currently scheduled at the Paris wonderful Palais Garnier, Les Étoiles et Premiers Danseurs du Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris offers an anthology of solos and duets, partly accompanied by Ophélie Gaillard‘s cello. The artist in duet with the star dancers Sae Eun Park and Hugo Marchand performs La Mort du cygne and A Suite […]

On Monday 20th October 2020, the audience who were expecting to attend a performance of Verdi’s Aida at La Scala were unpleasantly surprised to learn that two members of the cast have been tested positive at Covid. The good surprise is that the performance has been replaced by a concert with… Jonas Kaufmann. The tenor […]

As we recently announced, on November 11, 2020, the Philharmonie de Paris welcomes Anna Netrebko who has agreed to perform twice, now at 3:00 pm and 6:30 pm (there are still tickets left for 3:00 pm). One star may hide another, the great Cecilia Bartoli will also double her recital at the Philharmonie, on November […]

In the current situation with the complexity of traveling, Daniel Barenboim is forced to cancel the tour around Beethoven’s symphonies scheduled from November 6 to 22, 2020 in Paris, Athens and Vienna. It is possible to attend a Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 perforrmance conducted by Barenboim with the Staatskapelle Berlin. The concert is still scheduled […]

Recently awarded Artist of the Year by the German magazine Opernwelt, the divine soprano Marlis Petersen once again takes on the role of Marietta in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Brussels La Monnaie-De Munt from 22 October 2020. Her partner is no longer Jonas Kaufmann, as in Munich, but Roberto Saccà, who performs as […]

Gaétan Jarry, the musical director of the Marguerite Louise Ensemble, is no longer leaving Versailles. While Georges Dandin, the comedy-ballet by Molière and Lully directed by Michel Fau is announced at the Royal Opera of Versailles from 24th to 28th March 2021, the conductor will conduct on November 1st, 2020 Mathias Vidal’s Rameau recital  (also […]

On 11 November 2020, the Philharmonie de Paris welcomes Anna Netrebko. The superstar soprano with mezzo Elena Maximova, pianist Malcolm Martineau and violinist Giovanni Andrea Zanon performs melodies, Songs and Lieder by Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Debussy, Fauré, Charpentier, Offenbach, Bridge, Leoncavallo and Dvorák. Given the new distances rules, the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez can […]

After two missed concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris due to health constraints on air traffic, the great Russian conductor Tugan Sokhiev will conduct two concerts with the Orchestre de Paris, on October 18 and 19, 2020. Two newly scheduled evenings with a suite of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (in a revised version by Tugan Sokhiev) […]