The reference book on the coming season, the Music & Opera 2022-2023 Guide is out of stock. With music lovers back in theatres rushing to buy all copies, sales forecasts have been greatly exceeded. For those who are behind, a digital version is now available for €40 on the M&O website. As for the lucky […]
A real craze or a coincidence of the calendar, it seems that Gluck’s operas are arousing new interest in Paris. After Jakub Józef Orliński‘s magnificent Orfeo (at the TCE), and Julien Chauvin‘s surprising and successful exhumation of Iphigénie en Aulide (at Soissons and at the TCE), there are two titles soon to be performed that […]
New director Tobias Wolff opens the Leipzig Opera’s 2022/23 season with a rarity. The first performance of Albert Lortzing’s Undine on 29 October 2022 marks the beginning of the great Lortzing cycle, which will culminate in a festival in honour of the German composer in 2026. A former Kapellmeister (music director) of the Leipzig City […]
It is no secret that the love story between conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France continues. Honorary conductor of the orchestra where he was music director for 15 years, Chung will be back with his orchestra on Wednesday 7 December 2022 at the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse to conduct Mahler’s […]
Spectacular is the adjective often used to describe the Aida that Hugo de Ana conceived in 1998 with almost 300 artists. For the opening of its 2022-2023 opera season on 24 October, Madrid’s Teatro Real is reviving Verdi’s masterpiece with different casts. There will be 20 performances conducted by Nicola Luisotti, Daniel Oren and Diego […]
From 10 to 12 November 2022, Château de Versailles Spectacles presents Charpentier‘s moving David and Jonathas directed by Marshall Pynkoski, not at the Opera but in the Royal Chapel of Versailles and this is a first in the history of the place. Gaétan Jarry, who directs the Ensemble Marguerite Louise, has assembled a superb cast […]
In 1941, the deportation camp of Terezin was the scene of a sinister masquerade. In order to make the world believe that they cared, the Nazis allowed Red Cross visits to the camp and occasionally staged performances by incarcerated Jewish artists. During an hour of authorised music, Verdi’s Requiem has been performed several times on […]
It’s not just Nobel Prizes in Stockholm, where classical music is also in the spotlight thanks to the Birgit Nilsson Foundation, which will present its 2022 Prize to the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at a ceremony at Konserthuset on Tuesday 18 October. The award ceremony will be live streamed on Konserthuset Play. Find all […]
Daniele Rustioni, musical director of the Opéra de Lyon, continues his cycle of Massenet operas in concert version. After Werther and Manon, it is now Hérodiade which is on the bill at the Auditorium-Orchestre national de Lyon on 23 November 2022 and then in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on 25 November with […]
The Berliner Philharmoniker, which is in residence in Baden-Baden every season for the famous Osterfestspiele, has announced some changes in the programme for the tenth edition, which will be held from 1 to 10 April 2023. Richard Strauss’s opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, which is at the heart of the season, requires a large number […]
