The famous Festival della Valle d’Itria celebrates its 50th anniversary this season with two major events. Bellini’s Norma conducted by Fabio Luisi and Handel’s Ariodante conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli are scheduled with, as always for the institution, historically informed performances. To mark the occasion, M&O in partnership with Classica magazine are taking their readers […]
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The terrible Armide has inspired many opera composers of genius. The Opéra Comique welcomes the heroine back from 17 to 25 June 2024, but it’s not the same music. Music lovers who heard Gluck‘s Armide last season will be able to draw comparisons with Lully‘s Armide, with the same libretto by Philippe Quinault and the […]
With its three major halls, the Národní divadlo, the Prague National Opera ends its season in style with a sensational Festival. The Opera Nova Festival, to be held from June 14 to 22, 2024, will focus on modernity, with exceptional productions of works from the 20th and 21st centuries. György Ligeti‘s demented opera Le Grand […]
While Cecilia Gasdia, Sovrintendente of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, is touring the major cities to present the 2024 programme of the famous Verona Arena Festival, the 2025 season has already been announced. 2024, the great Puccini year, will of course include the masterpieces Tosca, Turandot and a new Bohème, as well as the eagerly […]
Don Quichotte, the last opera composed by Jules Massenet, will return to the Opéra national de Paris from 10 May to 11 June 2024, after a 20-year absence. Damiano Michieletto‘s new production of Don Quichotte at the Opéra Bastille has been through quite a few upheavals. After the defection of Ildar Abdrazakov and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, […]
Mozart‘s Così fan tutte offers six golden roles, including that of Don Alfonso the cynic. The Orchestre national de Lyon and its conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider are offering two performances of the famous opera, on 24 and 26 May 2024, with the great American baritone Thomas Hampson in the role. Accompanied by young artists and the […]
Paris is the capital of the 2024 Olympic Games, but music lovers are not left out of the equation at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Opéra de Nice. Along with Vivaldi‘s L’Olimpiade, which is very much in the news, the same title will be performed from 30 April to 4 May 2024 at the […]
While enjoying an exemplary career, the young French pianist Jonathan Fournel (winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition) is continuing his meteoric rise. After a recent recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the holy of holies of concert halls, he returns to Beethoven at the Concertgebouw in Bruges this time, with […]
The Verona Arena Festival events have been announced with some exceptional Toscas, including the one on 30 August 2024 featuring Elena Stikhina, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier in the role of the horrible Barone Scarpia. The superstar baritone has a surprise in store for lucky festival-goers where he performs as Amonasro in a deluxe Aida […]
