2024 is sure to be a great Puccini year to mark the hundredth anniversary of his death. The Opernhaus Zürich has decided not to wait, programming La rondine, a delicate masterpiece that will be performed for the very first time in Switzerland! From 17 September 2023, the sensitive Ermonela Jaho and the magnificent Benjamin Bernheim […]
With its legendary acoustics, Carnegie Hall has announced a number of changes for the new 2023-2024 season. The talented young pianist Alexandre Kantorow has confirmed that he will replace Maurizio Pollini on 22 October 2023. Handel’s Rodelinda gets a new cast (December 10). The Boston Symphony Orchestra adds a new work by Tania León to […]
Has William Tell’s homeland become the new land of ecology? While the Gstaad Menuhin Festival is committed to the subject of protecting nature by tackling the theme of global change (notably with Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s ‘Music for the Planet’ concert series), it is the Lucerne Festival that has just made headlines. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski was conducting […]
Nancy’s superb opera house, set on the Place Stanislas, will open its 2023-2024 season with Mozart‘s early opera, the great masterpiece Idomeneo, on 29 September 2023. In the meantime, the Opéra is organising a competition in partnership with Vitrines de Nancy. To take part, all you have to do is visit one of the participating […]
In Paris, the Opéra-Comique, always at the cutting edge, is preparing to host (from 27 September to 5 October 2023) La Fille de Madame Angot, a huge popular success by Charles Lecocq. Under the musical direction of Hervé Niquet, Richard Brunel‘s staging brings together the great names of Hélène Guilmette, Véronique Gens, Pierre Derhet, Julien […]
While the season opener at New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera is often drawn from the great operatic repertoire, Peter Gelb has chosen a contemporary opera for his 2023-2024 season for a change! Jake Heggie and his opera Dead Man Walking, first performed in San Franciso in 2000, will headline the season with superstar Joyce DiDonato. […]
Laurent Pelly‘s superb production thrilled audiences at the Opéra Comique in Paris, and now Lakmé, Léo Delibes’s absolute masterpiece, is on the bill at the Opéra de Nice for three exceptional performances on 29 September, 1 and 3 October 2023 with a new cast. Kathryn Lewek, who made a big impression last season in Donizetti’s […]
After the choices of his predecessor (who died prematurely) and the revivals after Covid, Stefano Pace, the enlightened director of the Opéra royal de Liège, inaugurates his first full programme with a masterpiece by Mozart from his youth. Idomeneo opens the series of eight new productions scheduled for this 2023-2024 season. The excellent conductor Fabio […]
The Konzert-Direktion Hans Adler is the perfect architect of a series of concerts in the Bavarian capital. Thanks to the Konzert-Direktion, Munich can boast some of the biggest stars in classical music, including the Freiburger Barockorchester (5 October 2023), Emmanuel Pahud and Antonello Manacorda (2 November), Teodor Currentzis (14 November), Hilary Hahn (20 November) and […]
Are the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Philharmonie, the French capital’s two great symphony concert halls, fighting it out in 2023? The line-up on both sides is very strong, with, Porte de Pantin, the Berliner Philharmoniker led by Kirill Petrenko (2 September), the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Klaus Mäkelä (6 and 7 September) and […]
