A new production is always an event at the Wiener Staatsoper. What can we say when we’re talking about three operas! On 4 October 2023, Austria’s leading opera house will welcome Puccini’s Il trittico. Philippe Jordan conducts the three operas that make up this famous triptych in one evening: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni […]
A few years ago, the revelation Elina Garanca took her first steps on an international stage in the role of Angelina. Following on from Irina Brook’s production in 2004, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is staging Rossini’s Cenerentola again from 9 to 19 October 2023, this time offering the emblematic role to a leading mezzo. Marina […]
After the Paris premiere of the violin concerto entitled “Le sommeil a pris ton empreinte”, Berlin is preparing to welcome the work by French composer Camille Pépin for the very first time. Conductor Robin Ticciati leads the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the German premiere on 15 October 2023 at the Philharmonie with, as in Paris, […]
While pianist Víkingur Ólafson devotes his entire 2023-2024 season to Bach‘s masterpiece, another great keyboardist will be performing the Goldberg Variations on 4 October 2023 at the Salle Cortot in Paris. Familiar with these virtuoso pieces, Pierre Hantaï has recorded them and often performed them in concert, deepening his interpretation each time. A great concert […]
A major event of the season, a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen is on the cards, with the first episode of Wagner’s tetralogy on show from 24 October to 9 November 2023. La Monnaie de Bruxelles is decked out in gold with Das Rheingold, conducted as it should be by its musical director […]
While the competition is in full swing at the Concours Voix Nouvelles, which has revealed Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout, Karine Deshayes, Anne Catherine Gillet, Eva Zaicik, etc., one candidate has already made a name for herself by winning first prize in another competition. Lauranne Oliva, a 23-year-old French soprano, has just won first prize and […]
After his hugely successful performance as Posa in Geneva’s Don Carlos, Stéphane Degout is continuing his love affair with the public, who will soon see him again at the Philharmonie de Paris, on 12 October 2023, in Georges Benjamin’s opera Lessons in Love and Violence. The music lover’s favourite contemporary composer composed this opera with […]
The great conductor Franz Welser-Möst, former Music Director of the Vienna Opera and current Principal Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, will not be making his comeback as expected. Stricken with cancer, he has just undergone surgery, which now requires rest and treatment. He is therefore forced to cancel his engagements until the end of the […]
With the Rossini Opera Festival 2023 barely over, the titles of the 2024 season have just been announced. On the programme for this 45th edition, five operas by the great Rossini will be performed from 7 to 23 August 2024. Bianca e Falliero, in a new production by Jean-Louis Grinda, will open the festival, followed […]
The Orchestre national de Lyon will not be returning to the stage in September, as is the case for most major orchestras, but in October. The reason is simple: for the whole of September, the auditorium’s Grande Salle will be closed for acoustic work. A grand re-opening has therefore been announced, with three prestigious concerts […]
