The Cannes Dance Festival is offering the first edition of MOV’IN Cannes, its dance film competition. For its twenty-fourth edition, the event is breaking new ground while forging a natural link with cinema, an art form that is in the DNA of the city of Cannes. Seven professional judges from the two artistic fields, including […]

Hot topings at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. As Verdi’s Don Carlo, the big event of the season opening, is being rehearsed, we learn of the defection of René Pape in the role of Filippo II. He is replaced by Michele Pertusi (as is Ekaterina Semenchuk in the role of Eboli by Veronica Simeoni on 30 […]

In keeping with its desire to involve an orchestra in its programming, the Grand Théâtre de Provence is welcoming the Cercle de l’Harmonie and its conductor Jérémie Rhorer to take up residence in Aix-en-Provence. A number of projects have been developed, including immersion courses in the orchestra, backstage tours, discoveries of the different professions involved […]

Jonathan Tetelman, the new tenor the world over has been snapping up, is Werther in Baden-Baden, directed by Robert Carsen. Having already performed the role in Lima and Montevideo, the American-Chilean artist offers his European premiere on 24 and 26 November 2023 to Festspielhaus audiences who will be able to say “I was there”. As […]

While performances of Pascal Dusapin’s Macbeth Underworld have just ended at the Opéra Comique, its director Thomas Jolly is not leaving the Salle Favart, as the production of Offenbach’s Fantasio will be revived from 13 to 23 December 2023. Premiered in 2017 at the Théâtre du Châtelet during the renovation of the Opéra-Comique, this production […]

From 24 November to 10 December 2023, the city of Cannes will be hosting the Festival de Danse Cannes, under the artistic direction of Didier Deschamps, on the theme of the impulses and beauty of the world. With twenty-seven companies invited, three world premieres will be presented (Thierry Malandain, Amala Dianor and Antoine Le Menestrel) […]

Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the temple of opera and the most famous opera house in the world along with the Palais Garnier, has just been given new spaces. As part of the overall reorganisation project, which began in the 2000s with the restoration and extension of the eighteenth-century hall, a new tower has just been […]

The year 2024 commemorates 200 years since the birth of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), whilst also marking the 140th anniversary of his death. The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in cooperation with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava will commemorate these anniversaries by staging the Smetana Opera Cycle Ostrava 2024. Bedřich Smetana’s operatic oeuvre comprised of The Brandenburghers […]

Between Saint-Nicolas and Christmas, the Opéra national de Lorraine has chosen to bring a smile to the face of the world by programming Donizetti‘s joyous Don Pasquale from 15 to 23 December 2023. Tim Sheader‘s new production, with musical direction by Giulio Cilona, features a colourful cast. The great Lucio Gallo in the title role […]

While this season, Avignon, Nice and Bordeaux are discovering the charms of Rusalka, Dvořák‘s masterpiece inspired by Andersen‘s fairy tale The Little Mermaid, Opéra royal de Liège is taking its turn to perform this superb, rarely-performed score. From 25 January to 4 February 2024, a new production by Rodula Gaitanou will mark the entry into […]