With the fifth edition of the competition just completed, the Voix des Outre-mer are taking off once again with a large-scale show based on Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. After the premiere in Nancy and the revival in Martinique on the occasion of the FILAO festival, the singers (including Axelle Saint Cirel, the 2023 winner, Raphaël […]
The King’s Singers, arguably one of the world’s most renowned vocal ensembles, have found themselves in the spotlight despite themselves. While the group is currently touring the United States, one of their concerts has been cancelled due to the sexual orientation of one of their singers, with his ” lifestyle that contradicts Scripture” being cited […]
The popular Gustavo Dudamel, current music director of the Paris National Opéra, has just been officially appointed to lead the New York Philharmonic where he is expected in 2025-26 to start his first real season 2026-27. He will be the first Hispanic principal conductor since the orchestra was founded in 1842. The Venezuelan conductor who […]
Shakespeare’s mythical couple to be celebrated on Valentine’s Day, Romeo and Juliet were immortalised by the Prokofiev’s ballet and above all by Charles Gounod’s opera, his masterpieces. Several productions have been announced for 2023, such as in Savonlinna, where they will be a ménage à quatre with Lisette Oropesa and Marjukka Tepponen as Juliette and […]
Premiered in 2014, the production of Puccini’s of Madama Butterfly makes an eagerly awaited return to the open air on the shores of Sydney Harbour as part of the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour summer season. Running from 24 March 2023 for 32 performances, Sydney residents and visitors will be attending Àlex Ollé‘s visionary staging […]
The Semperoper continues the great tradition by regularly programming Richard Strauss‘s operas, many of which were first performed here in Dresden. For the revival of Ariadne auf Naxos directed by David Hermann (from 23 February 2023), the great French voice Catherine Hunold, Sarah Aristidou and Angela Brower will make their debut in loco, while Gregory […]
Last December, the Opéra de Tours had the privilege of discovering Reynaldo Hahn’s O mon bel inconnu, the latest production from the Palazzetto Bru Zane, well known for giving back to France a large part of its culture. The three-act musical, with a libretto by Sacha Guitry and directed by the delightful Emeline Bayard (who […]
Earthquakes in the region have complicated the maintenance operations of the Teatro Rossini, currently underway in Pesaro. It will not be possible for the Rossini Opera Festival to use the hall, where a number of events are already scheduled, which creates a certain earthquake. The production of Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira is therefore moved to […]
On 12 February 2023, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will present an all-French concert at the Berlin Philharmonie with Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, followed by Francis Poulenc’s Concert champêtre performed by Jean Rondeau on the harpsichord and Camille Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 with organ, featuring Thomas Ospital, the current organist at Saint-Eustache church in […]
The white smoke was eagerly awaited and it is finally Olivier Py who has been appointed Director of the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. A great theatre and opera director, actor, author, director of the Théâtre national de l’Odéon from 2007 to 2012 and of the Festival d’Avignon from 2013 to 2022, Olivier Py is […]
