A new singer we may heard of very soon, mezzo Catriona Morison, won the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition!

On June 20, mezzo Waltraud Meier has been recognized as a honorary member of the Vienna national Opera (Ehrenmitglied der Wiener Staatsoper)

The Lucerne Piano Festival will be held from November 18th to 26th 2017 is an A-plus festival this season featuring Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Kit Armstrong, and Yulianna Avdeeva but also Evgeny Kissin and Daniil Trifonov.

2017-2018 cast changes : at Wiener Staastoper Anita Hartig as Marguerite replaces Sonya Yoncheva who replaces Kristine Opolais as Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera.

A concert version of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is performed at Sydney Opera House wuth the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit, on 23, 24 & 28 June with Michaela Selinger, Marc Barrard and Jérôme Varnier.

Beautiful Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko-Mariotti performs a role-debut as Leila in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles on June 24th at Staatsoper Berlin.

Conductor Daniel Harding has hurt his wrist and is forced to cancel his next opera production at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Eivind Gullberg Jensen replaces him and conducts Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.

From June 19th, all opera lovers will attend Richard Strauss’ Elektra at Wiener Staatsoper starring the fanstatic Nina Stemme!

Congrats to superb French soprano Sabine Devieilhe for her début tomorrow at Teatro alla Scala de Milano in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem serail (her interview in French here)!

The opening of the 2017-2018 season of the Opéra national de Paris on September 9th will be joyful with Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe conducted by talented young conductor Jakub Hrusa and in the leading roles two great artists Véronique Gens and Thomas Hampson!