As dancer Cédric Andrieux prepares to take over the director of the Lyon Opera Ballet, the institution announced that it has been forced to cancel all performances of On purge Bébé! the last Philippe Boesmans opera, initially scheduled for 5 to 17 June 2023. Following a Board of Directors meeting on 12 April, decisions were […]
A little over 20 years ago, the opera world was in an uproar as Milan’s Scala was about to be completely renovated. A lot of ink was spilled, not forgetting the architect responsible, Mario Botta, who has just celebrated his 80th birthday. The protagonist of the structural transformation of La Scala has enabled the legendary […]
The La Maestra International Female Conductors’ Competition has brought to the fore young talents such as laureates Rebecca Tong and Anna Sułkowska-Migoń but also Stephanie Childress. While registrations for the third edition have just opened, the date is already announced. With a grand final at the Philharmonie de Paris, the competition will take place from […]
The Saint-Saëns centenary of 2021 continues to bear fruit. Postponed due to the pandemic, La Monnaie in Brussels is offering a new production of a rare gem with Henry VIII. The opera is one of its many little-known masterpieces and will benefit from the musical direction of Alain Altinoglu and the staging of Olivier Py […]
Few conductors like him have left an indelible mark, John Eliot Gardiner returns to Berlioz by conducting Les Troyens, the fresco opera by the great French composer. The Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique are of course involved, as is tenor Michael Spyres who takes on the role of Aeneas. The event will […]
It seems that Iphigénie en Tauride, one of Gluck‘s great masterpieces, is enjoying a revival. After several fine productions, it is now the Opéra Comédie de Montpellier that is hosting the lyrical tragedy from 19 to 23 April 2023, directed by Rafael R. Villalobos. After the great success of Hamlet at the Opéra national de […]
The city of Montpellier will once again make bodies vibrate from 20 June to 4 July 2023 by inviting dancers, choreographers, companies, panels, dance lessons… For its 43rd edition, the Montpellier Danse festival is questioning the place of memory in contemporary dance. “This edition should have echoed the noise and fury of the world… perhaps […]
A former Kapellmeister at the court of Dresden, Wagner, who created Rienzi, Der Fliegende Holländer and Tannhäuser in the Saxon capital, invites himself to the Dresdner Musikfestspiele in an original version. At the instigation of its director Jan Vogler and Kent Nagano, the artistic director of the project, the festival wants to rediscover Wagner’s sound […]
Having just founded the musical association Sourire Music, the superb soprano Chen Reiss received a few privileged guests in Paris, on 26 March 2023, in the Parisian mansion Le Sourire de Passy for a private concert in the spirit of the salons of the 18th and 19th centuries. On this occasion, she presented this new […]
The Mozarteumorchester Salzburg (the Mozart Foundation’s orchestra founded in 1841 by Constance Mozart, the divine composer’s wife) is getting a new music director. From the 2024-25 season, the Spanish conductor Roberto González-Monjas will preside over the destiny of the Austrian orchestra. A former student of the Mozarteum University, he admits to an interest in and […]
