Concert

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Dudamel in Concert with the Catalans

After a first European tour in January 2025, Gustavo Dudamel returns to the Old Continent—this time, to its southern lands. Indeed, it is in Catalonia, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Palau de Musica, that the renowned Venezuelan conductor, leading the prestigious London Symphony Orchestra, will reunite with his European audience […]

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A First for Vienna’s New Year’s Concert

After the broadcast of the Vienna New Year’s Concert, with champagne and petits fours barely digested, the Wiener Philharmoniker has just announced the name of the next guest conductor for the world’s most famous concert, watched by millions of viewers each year — and it’s a first! Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a renowned star in the conducting […]

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Jérémie Rhorer Announces the Festivities Program

On January 10, 2025, celebrations will take place at the Grand Théâtre de Provence with a New Year’s concert, whose program has just been unveiled. Jérémie Rhorer, leading the Cercle de l’Harmonie—an ensemble in residence in Aix-en-Provence for eight years—will perform works by the two composers being honored in 2025. Johann Strauss II, the king […]

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Pierre Boulez Reborn in Baden-Baden

The renowned conductor and celebrated composer Pierre Boulez would have turned 100 in 2025. Thus, a “Boulez Year” is on the horizon, already making waves in Germany, particularly in Baden-Baden, the musical city of the Black Forest. Boulez lived and worked there for more than 60 years and was named an honorary citizen of the […]

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At Almost 150 Years Old, Ravel Exhibits His Boléro

The year 2025 will be a grand celebration of Ravel, who would have turned 150 on March 7. To mark the occasion, the Philharmonie de Paris is devoting to him an exhibition of a new kind for this major centre of French musical life. From December 3, 2024, to June 15, 2025, at the Musée […]

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Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała perfect couple

Two of the greatest voices of the moment join forces to offer themselves mainly to Puccini. Begun last week in Barcelona, a tour brings together soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczała that takes them to Seville, Madrid and Valencia before Germany as in Baden Baden where they are expected on 29 November 2024. With […]

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John Adams, New York’s New Master

At nearly 78, John Adams is one of the greatest living American composers. Unsurprisingly, the New York Philharmonic, one of the Big 5 orchestras in the US, is offering him an artistic partnership. In November, Adams, who is also a conductor, will lead this celebrated ensemble (on November 14-16, 2024) in a program featuring works […]

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Raffaele Pe Takes La Lira on Tour!

Raffaele Pe has more than one string to his bow. The superb Italian countertenor is also the artistic director of a baroque ensemble that brings together experienced musicians and musicologists, La Lira di Orfeo. After a European tour that took them to London and Bologna in October 2024, they will return to their all-Vivaldi program […]

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Bruckner enters the Champs-Elysées !

2024 is the great Bruckner year, as the Austrian symphonist just turned 200 years old (on September 4)! Bruckner remains in the spotlight during the 2024-2025 season at the Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, where he will be featured in four unmissable events. On November 15 at 8 p.m., the Orchestre National de France will kick […]

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Happy Birthday, Dorota!

Dorota Anderszewska has held the position of concertmaster violinist with the Orchestre National de Montpellier since 2004! Twenty years later, to celebrate this milestone, three concerts will showcase her talent, including the evenings of October 25 and 26, 2024, where she will perform Bruch‘s magnificent Violin Concerto No. 1 under the baton of Ainars Rubikis […]