The Mozarteumorchester Salzburg (the Mozart Foundation’s orchestra founded in 1841 by Constance Mozart, the divine composer’s wife) is getting a new music director. From the 2024-25 season, the Spanish conductor Roberto González-Monjas will preside over the destiny of the Austrian orchestra. A former student of the Mozarteum University, he admits to an interest in and […]
Maria Callas was born Anna Maria Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulou on 2 December 1923 in New York but it was in Athens that she began her incredible career. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her birth, the Greek National Opera pays tribute to her with a wonderful production of Cherubini’s Medea (directed by David […]
Lars Von Trier’s movie made a lasting impression on the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 and then on audiences around the world. Breaking the Waves has since become an opera with music by Missy Mazzoli and a libretto by Royce Vavrek. Premiered in September 2016 at Opera Philadelphia, the production received the 2017 International Opera […]
The Opéra de Paris is breaking new ground by hosting Nixon in China, the first opera by John Adams to enter the repertoire. The production will be performed at the Opéra Bastille from 25 March to 16 April 2023 and is directed by Valentina Carrasco in her first staging at the Opéra national de Paris. […]
While he has just published a book of interviews with Antoine Boulay (Marc Minkowski – Chef d’orchestre ou centaure, Séguier edition), while he is coming out of a triumphant tour of Handel’s Alcina and while he is expected to conduct Massenet’s Manon in April 2023 at the Liceu, Marc Minkowski has had a fall, not […]
While she was announced as the guest star at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Anna Pirozzi will not make her debut as Adriana Lecouvreur in Liège, the soprano reserving her role debut for Paris (as she announced in the interview she gave to CCC). From 11 to 22 April 2023, the Théâtre Royal will host […]
With the fifth edition of the competition just completed, the Voix des Outre-mer are taking off once again with a large-scale show based on Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. After the premiere in Nancy and the revival in Martinique on the occasion of the FILAO festival, the singers (including Axelle Saint Cirel, the 2023 winner, Raphaël […]
Shakespeare’s mythical couple to be celebrated on Valentine’s Day, Romeo and Juliet were immortalised by the Prokofiev’s ballet and above all by Charles Gounod’s opera, his masterpieces. Several productions have been announced for 2023, such as in Savonlinna, where they will be a ménage à quatre with Lisette Oropesa and Marjukka Tepponen as Juliette and […]
Premiered in 2014, the production of Puccini’s of Madama Butterfly makes an eagerly awaited return to the open air on the shores of Sydney Harbour as part of the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour summer season. Running from 24 March 2023 for 32 performances, Sydney residents and visitors will be attending Àlex Ollé‘s visionary staging […]
The legendary baritone Leo Nucci, turned to a stage director when he was 77, will see his production of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera revived at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, from 27 January to 5 February 2023. Impossible loves, betrayals, plots, magic potions and inexorable destiny will be sung on stage by a […]
