Ever since Trisha Brown, it has been known that Monteverdi’s Orfeo is an opera that can be danced to. The choreographer Sasha Waltz has created a production that will be staged at the Teatro Real in Madrid from 20 to 24 November 2022, with the astonishing baritone Georg Nigl in the title role and the […]

After her triumph in Pesaro, the exceptional Karine Deshayes returns to the role of Elizabeth of England in Rossini‘s opera, Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra at the Opéra de Marseille on 8, 10 and 13 November 2022. The concert version conducted by Roberto Rizzi Brignoli is also performed by Giuliana Gianfaldoni, Julien Dran and Ruzil Gatin. Royal […]

After the Opéra Comique’s production last May, La Périchole, Jacques Offenbach‘s delightful opera buffa, is once again on stage in Paris. The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées will host a brand new production by Laurent Pelly from 13 to 27 November 2022. After the great success of his Lakmé at the Salle Favart (with Sabine Devieilhe), the […]

London’s Royal Opera House has announced the name of Antonio Pappano’s successor as Music Director of the great English institution, who will take up his post in 2025. He is the excellent Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa, 41, currently Principal Conductor of the Bamberger Symphoniker, Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and of the […]

She had not returned to the Grands Interprètes serie since 2018, Khatia Buniatishvili will be at the Halle aux Grains on Tuesday 13 December 2022 to perform works by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt Rachmaninov and Prokofiev. The popularity of the great pianist is so important that it is best to rush for the last remaining […]

A real craze or a coincidence of the calendar, it seems that Gluck’s operas are arousing new interest in Paris. After Jakub Józef Orliński‘s magnificent Orfeo (at the TCE), and Julien Chauvin‘s surprising and successful exhumation of Iphigénie en Aulide (at Soissons and at the TCE), there are two titles soon to be performed that […]

Spectacular is the adjective often used to describe the Aida that Hugo de Ana conceived in 1998 with almost 300 artists. For the opening of its 2022-2023 opera season on 24 October, Madrid’s Teatro Real is reviving Verdi’s masterpiece with different casts. There will be 20 performances conducted by Nicola Luisotti, Daniel Oren and Diego […]

It’s not just Nobel Prizes in Stockholm, where classical music is also in the spotlight thanks to the Birgit Nilsson Foundation, which will present its 2022 Prize to the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at a ceremony at Konserthuset on Tuesday 18 October. The award ceremony will be live streamed on Konserthuset Play.   Find all […]

Daniele Rustioni, musical director of the Opéra de Lyon, continues his cycle of Massenet operas in concert version. After Werther and Manon, it is now Hérodiade which is on the bill at the Auditorium-Orchestre national de Lyon on 23 November 2022 and then in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on 25 November with […]

The Berliner Philharmoniker, which is in residence in Baden-Baden every season for the famous Osterfestspiele, has announced some changes in the programme for the tenth edition, which will be held from 1 to 10 April 2023. Richard Strauss’s opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, which is at the heart of the season, requires a large number […]