Baritone Erwin Schrott who will perform as Mefistofele at the Chorégies d’Orange 2018 performs a song recital at prestigious Wiener Staatsoper tomorrow 20 September.

At 73 great soprano Kiri Te Kanawa just announced she will not sing in public again.

From 2019 to 2021 at Finnish National Opera, a new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is announced staged by Anna Kelo and conducted by the great conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Conductor Alain Altinoglu who signed the 2017-2018 M&O book, conducts the prestigious Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin on 21-23 September, great programme includes works by Ravel, Bartók, Debussy and Roussel.

Maybe you missed it, the great news of this summer has been announced by the Bayreuth Festival, Roberto Alagna will sing the title-role of Wagner’s Lohengrin in 2018 alongside Anja Harteros and Waltraud Meier.

At Wiener Staatsoper in January 2018, soprano Sabine Devieilhe performs as Marie in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment but announced tenor Javier Camarena as Tonio canceled, John Tessier replaces.

When Paris is already in tears, Vienna can rejoice: conductor Philippe Jordan now Music Director of the Opéra national de Paris has been named Musikdirektor of the Wiener Staatsoper from 2020!

Soprano Adela Zaharia and tenor Levy Sekgapane are the 2017 winners of the famous Placidó Domingo Operalia Contest (still on replay on medici.tv), congrats !

We were waiting for the name of the new Aida at les Chorégies d’Orange on 2 & 5 August, young somparno Elena O’Connor replaces Sondra Radvanovsky as Aida for her debut and for the first time in France. A star is born ?

The great Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt turns 90 today… Happy Birthday Maestro !