“Habemus distributionem!” For once, unusually so early in the season, the Verona Arena Festival has unveiled the casts of the five operas scheduled this summer (Aida, Carmen, Nabucco, Rigoletto, and La Traviata). From June 13 to September 6, 2025, on one of the world’s largest opera stages, a parade of superstars is expected. In addition […]
The celebrated Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi continues her streak of triumphs. Following a fiery performance as Maddalena di Coigny in Andrea Chénier by Giordano in Paris and Lyon, she will take on the role of Aida, Verdi’s famed Ethiopian slave, in London in a production directed by Robert Carsen (from January 28 to February 12, […]
Their December 2022 visit to Paris brought spectators at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to tears. This winter, the ballet and orchestra of the National Opera of Ukraine are returning for 17 exceptional performances from December 21, 2024, to January 5, 2025, on the Avenue Montaigne stage. Despite enduring extremely difficult living and working conditions for […]
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 […]
The year 2025 will be a grand celebration of Ravel, who would have turned 150 on March 7. To mark the occasion, the Philharmonie de Paris is devoting to him an exhibition of a new kind for this major centre of French musical life. From December 3, 2024, to June 15, 2025, at the Musée […]
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 […]
Two of the greatest voices of the moment join forces to offer themselves mainly to Puccini. Begun last week in Barcelona, a tour brings together soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczała that takes them to Seville, Madrid and Valencia before Germany as in Baden Baden where they are expected on 29 November 2024. With […]
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 […]
Who would believe it? Chopin isn’t dead, as he’s still composing! An incredible discovery was just made in New York in the vault room of the Morgan Library & Museum. The New York Times reports that an unpublished waltz score has been lying there, undisturbed, for nearly 200 years. Initially skeptical, curator Robinson McClellan consulted […]
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 […]
