Following a performance of Richard Strauss‘s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Wiener Staatsoper on 14 October 2023, conductor Christian Thielemann (who is particularly in the news after being appointed to replace Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin) has been made an Honorary Member of the Vienna State Opera. Since his […]
The Grands Interprètes series in Toulouse invites Laurence Equilbey to conduct the Insula Orchestra and the Accentus Choir on Wednesday 20 December 2023 at the Halle aux Grains for a seasonal programme. Surrounded by Sandrine Piau, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Dijan, Stuart Jackson and Alex Rosen, the conductor will conduct Handel’s Messiah. Get your tickets for Messiah to […]
Legendary conductor Riccardo Muti is taking his orchestra – the Chicago Symphony Orchestra – on a European tour from 11 to 29 January 2024. This new year will start on the theme of excellence, given the dedication and professionalism this great artist is renowned for. Cologne, Essen, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Milan, Paris, Rome, Turin, Vienna as […]
2023 is the year of Maria Callas, because on 2 December she would have been 100 years old. Tributes to the Diva assoluta have already been paid around the world (notably in Athens, where she made her debut), but Paris is rolling out the finest red carpet with a gala evening on 2 December 2023, […]
With the Rossini Opera Festival 2023 barely over, the titles of the 2024 season have just been announced. On the programme for this 45th edition, five operas by the great Rossini will be performed from 7 to 23 August 2024. Bianca e Falliero, in a new production by Jean-Louis Grinda, will open the festival, followed […]
With its legendary acoustics, Carnegie Hall has announced a number of changes for the new 2023-2024 season. The talented young pianist Alexandre Kantorow has confirmed that he will replace Maurizio Pollini on 22 October 2023. Handel’s Rodelinda gets a new cast (December 10). The Boston Symphony Orchestra adds a new work by Tania León to […]
The scandal of the summer will have allowed a new talent to blossom. After John Eliot Gardiner slapped one of the artists in the cast of Berlioz’s Les Troyens at La Côte-Saint-André, the great anticipated event of the season turned into a sordid news item. John Eliot Gardiner was undoubtedly one of the greatest Berlioz […]
For eleven seasons now, Christian Spuck has presided over the destiny of Ballett Zürich as director and chief choreographer. After shaping Switzerland’s largest company, he is now leaving to become artistic director of the Staatsballett Berlin. For his farewell to the Ballett Zürich, several events are being organised at the Opernhaus, such as the recording […]
One of the highlights of the 2022-2023 dance season at the Opéra national de Paris, The Dante Project by British choreographer Wayne McGregor enters the Paris Opera Ballet repertory on 3 May 2023 (until 31) at the Palais Garnier. Premiered in London in October 2021, the ballet is based on Dante’s Divine Comedy and features […]
In April, May and June 2023, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia will welcome no fewer than four artists who will be making their debut with one of Italy’s most prominent orchestras. On 4, 5 and 6 May, the German conductor Markus Stenz, who has conducted all over the world, will lead the Roman […]
