A new singer we may heard of very soon, mezzo Catriona Morison, won the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition!

On June 20, mezzo Waltraud Meier has been recognized as a honorary member of the Vienna national Opera (Ehrenmitglied der Wiener Staatsoper)

2017-2018 cast changes : at Wiener Staastoper Anita Hartig as Marguerite replaces Sonya Yoncheva who replaces Kristine Opolais as Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera.

Congrats to superb French soprano Sabine Devieilhe for her début tomorrow at Teatro alla Scala de Milano in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem serail (her interview in French here)!

The Opéra Royal de Versailles is certainly the perfect set that suits the fantastic voice of Cecilia Bartoli who performs a recital of Italian arias (Vivaldi, Caldara, Scarlatti, Händel, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini, Tosti, Donaudy, etc.) on June 12th 2017 !

After the news of the death of conductor Jirí Belohlávek, another great maestro has passed away: Jeffrey Tate died on June 2nd.

Sad news, great czech conductor Jirí Belohlávek died on May 31st, aged 71.

An extra date (December 10th) has been added to the Bayerische Staatsoper’s huge 2017-2018 programme, incredible Jonas Kaufmann performs a French opera arias concert “O Paradis“ composed by Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Halévy, Bizet, Gounod and Massenet!

Great conductor Paavo Järvi has been named Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra from the 2019-2020 season !

Before Così Fan Tutte at Drottningholms’ Theater in Sweden and Versailles’ Opéra Royal in France, Marc Minkowski conducts Mozart, Don Giovanni this time in San Francisco from June 4th to 30th starring Ildebrando D’arcangelo, Erwin Schrott…