New productions punctuate the 2022-2023 season of the Deutsche Oper Berlin with some highly anticipated operas. From 18 March 2023, Richard Strauss’s beautiful Arabella will be portrayed by Rachel Willis-Sørensen, the rising star of the sopranos. Donald Runnicles, the German institution’s artistic director, is conducting the production by Tobias Kratzer, who is back after his […]
While Maestro Long Yu was expected with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra at the Opéra Comique from 24 April to 4 May 2023 to conduct Bizet’s Carmen (in the hall where the opera was first performed), the Covid, still too virulent in China, prevented them from coming to Paris. Love being a rebellious and fickle bird, […]
A regular guest of the Teatro Regio di Torino, the conductor Riccardo Frizza will conduct the Holocaust Memorial Day Concert on 27 January 2023 in Turin. In this regard, he states: “While remembrance of what happened is a universally shared legacy that is marked every year on this memorial day, I personally feel the need […]
Double news for Tugan Sokhiev obliged to renounce to come to New York to conduct a concert on May 10-12, 2023, because of a schedule conflict (James Gaffigan is replacing him at the head of the New York Philharmonic). On the other hand, the Russian conductor who presided over the destiny of the Orchestre national […]
Les Siècles, the orchestra formed in 2003 by François-Xavier Roth, celebrates its twentieth anniversary at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées where they are in residence this season. On January 10, 2023, the conductor will conduct a concert dedicated to French late romanticism (Debussy, Lalo, Roussel, Massenet, Dukas and Ravel) in the very particular spirit of the […]
As the Mozartwoche 2023 prepares to open its doors on January 26, 2023 in Salzburg, its charming artistic director, the truculent Rolando Villazón, is faced with the predictable cancellation of Daniel Barenboim. The pianist and conductor is unwell and has to give up conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and performing with his friend Martha Argerich. The […]
Klaus Mäkelä‘s impressive career takes him to New York from 8 to 10 December 2022, where the young conductor will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic. With Truls Mørk unwell, a change of programme has been announced. Shostakovich‘s Cello Concerto No. 2 is replaced by the Symphony No. 6 by the same composer, […]
The end of year celebrations will be particularly royal at the Château de Versailles with shows in all the spaces of the historic site. While the Galerie des glaces will host a dramatised tour “The King’s Journey”, the Royal Chapel will host a series of sacred music concerts from 11 to 18 December 2022. At […]
Under the leadership of its conductor Cristian Măcelaru, the Orchestre National de France is going on a European tour from 26 November to 8 December 2022 with works by Ravel, Scriabin, Glière, Saint-Saëns and Franck. Two great artists have been invited to join them. First, Daniil Trifonov will perform Scriabin‘s Piano Concerto, and then Xavier […]
The Palazzetto Bru Zane, which gives back to France a large part of its culture by exhuming the great forgotten works of the opera repertoire, knows how to keep things light. Based on a text by Sacha Guitry, Reynaldo Hahn’s O mon bel inconnu is the new production on the bill at the Opéra de […]
