The Opera of Lyon announces that for personal reasons, Olivier Assayas, the well-known filmmaker, will not stage Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, scheduled from March 17 to April 4, 2023. Eugen Jebeleanu signs this new production in his place with a newcomer in the role of Marcellina, the great French mezzo-soprano Sophie Pondjiclis, on stage […]

The little Mozart was introduced to the Grand Couvert of King Louis XV at the Court of Versailles when he was only 7 years old. To commemorate this event, the Royal Opera of Versailles will program four operas of the divine composer in December and January. From December 27, 2022 to January 1, 2023, Hervé […]

Long before Fort-de-France, the charming city of Saint-Pierre in Martinique was the great capital of culture with its theater, a magnificent building that was designed on the same plans as the one in Bordeaux. In 1902, the eruption of Mount Pelee completely devastated the city, which retains the ruins as a trace of its glorious […]

December 7, the day of St. Ambrose, the patron saint of the city of Milano, is the season opening date of the temple of opera, La Scala in Milan. For 2022-2023, Dominique Meyer, Intendant and Riccardo Chailly, Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of La Scala, have chosen the masterpiece of Russian opera, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. […]

After Offenbach’s La Périchole, a superb success, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is already announcing an equally interesting stage production. From 10 to 19 March 2023, a double bill will see Sabine Devieilhe as Stravinsky’s Nightingale and as Thérèse-Tirésias in Poulenc‘s rare yet succulent Mamelles de Tirésias. With Olivier Py as director and François-Xavier Roth as […]

Ever since Trisha Brown, it has been known that Monteverdi’s Orfeo is an opera that can be danced to. The choreographer Sasha Waltz has created a production that will be staged at the Teatro Real in Madrid from 20 to 24 November 2022, with the astonishing baritone Georg Nigl in the title role and the […]

After her triumph in Pesaro, the exceptional Karine Deshayes returns to the role of Elizabeth of England in Rossini‘s opera, Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra at the Opéra de Marseille on 8, 10 and 13 November 2022. The concert version conducted by Roberto Rizzi Brignoli is also performed by Giuliana Gianfaldoni, Julien Dran and Ruzil Gatin. Royal […]

After the Opéra Comique’s production last May, La Périchole, Jacques Offenbach‘s delightful opera buffa, is once again on stage in Paris. The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées will host a brand new production by Laurent Pelly from 13 to 27 November 2022. After the great success of his Lakmé at the Salle Favart (with Sabine Devieilhe), the […]

As Bizet’s Carmen, the most performed French opera in the world, returns to the Opéra Bastille from 15 November to 3 December 2022 (then from 28 January to 25 February 2023) in Calixto Bieito‘s production, the bill holds a surprise. Alongside Michael Spyres’ Don José, Carmencita is perfomed by Gaëlle Arquez, who will then be […]

A real craze or a coincidence of the calendar, it seems that Gluck’s operas are arousing new interest in Paris. After Jakub Józef Orliński‘s magnificent Orfeo (at the TCE), and Julien Chauvin‘s surprising and successful exhumation of Iphigénie en Aulide (at Soissons and at the TCE), there are two titles soon to be performed that […]