The Music & Opera Guide 2023-2024 is the bible for music lovers, the only publication to offer the full programme of over 500 institutions worldwide. The 27th edition contains the full programmes of 574 (a record!) orchestras, opera houses, concert and recital organisers, venues and all the details of opera, concert, recital and ballet performances. […]
The scandal of the summer will have allowed a new talent to blossom. After John Eliot Gardiner slapped one of the artists in the cast of Berlioz’s Les Troyens at La Côte-Saint-André, the great anticipated event of the season turned into a sordid news item. John Eliot Gardiner was undoubtedly one of the greatest Berlioz […]
The great conductor Riccardo Chailly is fulfilling his wish to take La Scala’s music outside its home in Milan. Under his direction, the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala will perform their finest repertoire, the choruses and overtures from Verdi’s operas, on tour from 31 August to 12 September 2023 in Verona, Grafenegg, Vienna, […]
A last-minute change of venue did not prevent the Voix des Outre-mer Ile-de-France final (originally scheduled to take place at the Ile-de-France region headquarters in Saint-Ouen) from taking place. As the Ile-de-France regional executive was forced to cancel all the events scheduled for the evening of 3 July 2023, the candidates, members of the jury […]
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Kaija Saariaho on 2 June 2023. The great Finnish composer died this weekend in Paris after a long illness. She left a prolific body of work that made her one of the best-known figures in contemporary classical music. Her compositions, in a recognisable […]
The highlight of the Lille National Orchestra’s season returns with the Lille Piano(s) Festival, which will be held on 9, 10 and 11 June 2023 in five different venues (Nouveau Siècle, Lille Conservatory, Notre-Dame de la Treille Cathedral, etc.). The 2023 programme features electronic music and Chopin with artists as diverse as Molécule, Abdel Rahman […]
Every season the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden offers a fine Whitsun Festival. In its 25th year, it has chosen Richard Wagner and two prominent but unexpected conductors. Teodor Currentzis and Pablo Heras-Casado (with Alexandre Kantorow) will pay tribute to the master, while Sonya Yoncheva, Andreas Schager, Fazıl Say and Patricia Kopatchinskaja will be featured in other events. […]
The end of season event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris will indeed take place but without the lively conductor Lorenzo Viotti. Indeed, he has just withdrawn from the production of Puccini’s La Bohème directed by Eric Ruf which will take place from 15 to 24 June 2023. Lorenzo Passerini replaces as musical director […]
The Italian Council of Ministers and its far-right president Giorgia Meloni have passed a decree banning foreign superintendents of the country’s opera and symphony foundations from holding office past the age of 70, effective 10 June. In the firing line is Frenchman Stéphane Lissner, former director of La Scala in Milan and the Opéra national […]
In anticipation of the grand final to be held on Friday 23 February 2024 at the Opéra national de Paris, the Voix des Outre-Mer competition is awaiting its audience for the very first Ile-de-France final on 3 July 2023. The young artists of tomorrow can be discovered at the Ile-de-France Region’s premises in Saint-Ouen. […]
