In London, Sweeney Todd is a well-known barber on Fleet Street and yet it is the Barbiere di Siviglia that is most often visited. In Bow Street, at the Royal Opera House, from 2 February to 6 March 2023, Andrzej Filończyk performs as Rossini’s hero accomplice Count Almaviva, the great Rossinian tenor Lawrence Brownlee, who […]
While Maestro Long Yu was expected with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra at the Opéra Comique from 24 April to 4 May 2023 to conduct Bizet’s Carmen (in the hall where the opera was first performed), the Covid, still too virulent in China, prevented them from coming to Paris. Love being a rebellious and fickle bird, […]
A regular guest of the Teatro Regio di Torino, the conductor Riccardo Frizza will conduct the Holocaust Memorial Day Concert on 27 January 2023 in Turin. In this regard, he states: “While remembrance of what happened is a universally shared legacy that is marked every year on this memorial day, I personally feel the need […]
Renowned conductor Nathalie Stutzmann leads the prestigious New York Philharmonic from 22 to 24 February 2023 at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall in New York, in a Wagner, Prokofiev and Dvorák programme with Alisa Weilerstein. Since Marin Alsop‘s departure from Baltimore, Nathalie Stutzmann, who has just been appointed to lead the Atlanta Symphony […]
His state of health had prevented him from conducting since October 2022, but his return to the Berlin stage for the New Year’s Eve concerts gave reason to hope. Unfortunately, Daniel Barenboim, the legendary conductor and pianist, has just officially announced his retirement. The 80-year-old Music Director of the great German institution since 1992 will […]
The Greek National Opera has announced the renewal of Giorgos Koumendakis‘ mandate as Artistic Director for another three years. A renowned composer, Giorgos Koumendakis enters his third consecutive term with some challenges. After focusing on establishing the foundations of the artistic identity of a new venue (the superb Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center), after redefining […]
January is a fruitful month for the Philharmonie de Paris, which welcomes three of the most prominent conductors. Sir Simon Rattle opens the ball on 14 and 15 January 2023 with the London Symphony Orchestra and two fine programmes, Sibelius/Bruckner then Beethoven/Stravinsky. The Orchestre de Paris meets Esa-Pekka Salonen on 25 and 26 January for […]
While Covid prevented him from making his debut in the role at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Stéphane Degout will be Tchaikovsky‘s Eugene Onegin, at last! at La Monnaie in Brussels from 29 January to 14 February 2023. In Laurent Pelly‘s production, the baritone recently crowned ‘Singer of the Year’ at the International Opera […]
Double news for Tugan Sokhiev obliged to renounce to come to New York to conduct a concert on May 10-12, 2023, because of a schedule conflict (James Gaffigan is replacing him at the head of the New York Philharmonic). On the other hand, the Russian conductor who presided over the destiny of the Orchestre national […]
In 2023, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées gives carte blanche to the pianist David Fray who has composed the program for three exceptional concerts on January 26, March 31 and May 26, 2023. For the Winterreise (26/1), he accompanies the great baritone Peter Mattei before a solo recital on 31/3 (with Liszt also on the program) […]
