Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the temple of opera and the most famous opera house in the world along with the Palais Garnier, has just been given new spaces. As part of the overall reorganisation project, which began in the 2000s with the restoration and extension of the eighteenth-century hall, a new tower has just been […]
The year 2024 commemorates 200 years since the birth of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), whilst also marking the 140th anniversary of his death. The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in cooperation with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava will commemorate these anniversaries by staging the Smetana Opera Cycle Ostrava 2024. Bedřich Smetana’s operatic oeuvre comprised of The Brandenburghers […]
Between Saint-Nicolas and Christmas, the Opéra national de Lorraine has chosen to bring a smile to the face of the world by programming Donizetti‘s joyous Don Pasquale from 15 to 23 December 2023. Tim Sheader‘s new production, with musical direction by Giulio Cilona, features a colourful cast. The great Lucio Gallo in the title role […]
While this season, Avignon, Nice and Bordeaux are discovering the charms of Rusalka, Dvořák‘s masterpiece inspired by Andersen‘s fairy tale The Little Mermaid, Opéra royal de Liège is taking its turn to perform this superb, rarely-performed score. From 25 January to 4 February 2024, a new production by Rodula Gaitanou will mark the entry into […]
After a grandiose 2023 season that marked its 100th anniversary, the Verona Arena Festival has just put the shows for the 2024 edition on sale. From 8 June to 7 September, there will be five special evenings, including a dance show by Roberto Bolle and, above all, seven opera titles, including a tribute to Puccini. […]
The great tragedienne Adrienne Lecouvreur inspired an opera, Adriana Lecouvreur, Cilea‘s masterpiece, which is set to delight the Parisian stage. While the actress will be played by Anna Netrebko and Anna Pirozzi in alternation from 16 January to 7 February 2024 at the Opéra national de Paris, a concert version is performed at the Théâtre […]
The great prima ballerina assoluta Alessandra Ferri has just been appointed the new director of the Vienna Opera Ballet. From 1 September 2025, she will succeed Martin Schläpfer, who has decided not to renew his contract. The Etoile will take over the artistic direction of the ballet company (and also that of the Wiener Staatsoper […]
For three seasons now in Paris, the Opera a Palazzo troupe has been bringing intense emotions to its audiences, welcoming them to the most beautiful venues in the capital. After the Hôtel Dosne-Thiers in the Nouvelle Athènes and the Musée Jacquemart-André, it is now the doors of the Hôtel de La Monnaie, on the Quai […]
From 6 to 29 November 2023, the Opéra Bastille once again welcomes the aesthetic universe of Bob Wilson with his production of Puccini’s Turandot. For the occasion, two sopranos were to alternate on stage. While Tamara Wilson will make her Paris Opéra debut before playing Beatrice di Tenda in Bellini’s opera on the same stage […]
After Trois mélodies sur des poèmes de Pierre de Ronsard recorded for the B Records label, young French composer Othman Louati reunites with his interpreter, soprano Marie-Laure Garnier, for the world premiere of his very first opera, Les Ailes du désir. The libretto by Gwendoline Soublin, based on an original idea by Johanny Bert, is […]
