The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma opens its new season on November 27, 2024, at the Teatro Costanzi. Unsurprisingly, Verdi, Italy’s greatest opera composer, was chosen for the occasion, with Simon Boccanegra, an opera set in Venice. The almost entirely Italian cast includes Eleonora Buratto, born in Mantua, Luca Salsi and Michele Pertusi, both from Parma […]
Conductor Eun Sun Kim is in demand on opera stages across both Europe and the United States, especially in San Francisco, where she has been music director since 2021. Recognizing her talent, the renowned San Francisco Opera has just extended her contract through 2031, announcing some upcoming productions already. Eun Sun Kim is expected to […]
At nearly 78, John Adams is one of the greatest living American composers. Unsurprisingly, the New York Philharmonic, one of the Big 5 orchestras in the US, is offering him an artistic partnership. In November, Adams, who is also a conductor, will lead this celebrated ensemble (on November 14-16, 2024) in a program featuring works […]
Raffaele Pe has more than one string to his bow. The superb Italian countertenor is also the artistic director of a baroque ensemble that brings together experienced musicians and musicologists, La Lira di Orfeo. After a European tour that took them to London and Bologna in October 2024, they will return to their all-Vivaldi program […]
As the International Opera Awards 2024 have just recognized Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s production, created at the Aix Festival this summer, as Best New Production, Iphigenia seems to be in vogue. Indeed, Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride, the two operas by Gluck, are currently on stage (from October 10 to 30, 2024) at the Greek […]
Caroline Shaw is a complete artist. A renowned composer, violinist, and singer, she is the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, which she won in 2013 for Partita for 8 Voices at the age of thirty! From November 20 to 23, 2024, the Philharmonie de Paris is dedicating a series of concerts to […]
A highly popular romantic opera, Weber’s Der Freischütz once graced opera houses worldwide, with its melodies hummed everywhere, before gradually fading from the stage. Created for the inauguration of the famous Konzerthaus in Berlin, the work is still performed in Germany. It can be discovered in the spectacular production by Philipp Stölzl at the Bregenz […]
A return to her roots for the voluptuous soprano Sonya Yoncheva, who reunites with William Christie after participating in one of the early editions of Le Jardin des Voix, the academy for young singers by Les Arts Florissants. On November 1, 2024, at the Philharmonie de Paris, November 5 at La Halle aux Grains in […]
Rarely has an opera production been so highly praised by critics and embraced by the public. Co-produced by the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, and the Opéra national de Paris, Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten, directed by Deborah Warner, is scheduled for five exceptional performances at the Teatro […]
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi was born at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice. Like the famous phoenix that gives the theater its name, the opera house has burned down several times, the most recent in 1996. For the reopening of the restored venue, “Dov’era, com’era” (“as it was and where it was“), it was only fitting […]
