Bernstein‘s masterpiece, West Side Story, is on at Opera Australia from 22 March to 21 April 2024, but not in Jørn Utzon‘s famous building. Francesca Zambello‘s production, based on the original production and choreography by Jerome Robbins, will be staged on the open-air stage on Sydney Harbour, with the famous bridge and the iconic opera […]
As he prepares to conduct the revival of Verdi‘s Simon Boccanegra (at the Opéra national de Paris from 12 March to 3 April 2024, directed by Calixto Bieito) with the exceptional Ludovic Tézier, eagerly awaited in the title role, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock has been appointed Music Director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. The […]
Following the announcement that the Berliner Philharmoniker will be returning to Salzburg from 2026, Baden-Baden is calling on a new generation of artists to maintain its prestigious Easter Festival at the same level of excellence. In order to “broaden the European vision”, the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will take over […]
The fine production of Handel’s Saul by the great director Barrie Kosky is on at the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen from 20 March to 5 April 2024, with Handelian bass-baritone Christopher Purves in the title role. For the occasion, the Royal Danish Opera will be joined in the pit by Concerto Copenhagen and its conductor […]
After Toulouse, where Olivier Py‘s production premiered at the start of the 2023-2024 season, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is also losing its star. Matthias Goerne was due to take on the role of Boris Godunov in Mussorgsky‘s masterpiece, but the famous baritone will not be joining the cast in the end. As in Toulouse, bass […]
The Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet has the excellent idea of reviving an intimate and powerful production. Created by the Royaumont Foundation, the production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, runs from 15 to 25 February 2024 with a fresh cast of young artists trained at the abbey. Jean-Christophe Lanièce returns […]
Elena Stikhina (one of the 2016 winners of the Operalia Competition) continues her faultless career, notably as a special guest of the Wiener Staatsoper, a major international stage. The Russian soprano will be performing as Tosca on 2, 5 and 10 February 2024 before taking on the two heroines of Il Trittico, another superb masterpiece […]
Since 21 January 2024, the Semperoper in Dresden has been staging a revival of Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann, marking an eagerly awaited debut for Klaus Florian Vogt in the role of Tristan. After an absence of more than ten years, Marco Arturo Marelli‘s production, first performed in […]
While he is currently appearing at the Opéra Bastille in the role of Maurice de Saxe in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (alongside Anna Netrebko from 16 to 25 January 2024), tenor Yusif Eyvazov is due to give a recital at the Salle Gaveau on 29 January 2024 as part of the Philippe Maillard Productions season. One […]
Raphaël Pichon is a conductor who likes to play with scores. After the success of Miranda (a pasticcio based on a work by Purcell), the Opéra Comique entrusted him with a new production based on excerpts from Schubert’s operas. XWith these pieces put together, director Silvia Costa has built a production in which Stéphane Degout […]
