Music & Opera’s Festival Magazine is back in full swing with its new publication featuring 176 festivals around the world. So many ideas to find your way back to the summer classical music scene!   Read the magazine here : 

Just one year ago, a rather special venue opened in Paris. For one evening, the magnificent salons of the Dosne-Thiers Foundation (on the Place Saint-Georges in the perfectly suitable district of New Athens) were transformed into the home of Violetta Valéry, the Palazzo of La Traviata. To celebrate the event, Opera a Palazzo, the organiser, […]

The lovers of Verona come down to Naples at the Teatro di San Carlo where, from 22 to 28 May 2022, Romeo and Juliet, the famous Prokofiev’s ballet, is performed. The great Italian institution is hosting the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production and, above all, Kenneth MacMillan’s beautiful choreography, which will be performed by the étoiles […]

From 22 May to 12 June 2022, the Zürich Opera House will stage Tatjana Gürbaca’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti’s masterpiece. A few days after Vienna, Lisette Oropesa will be joined by her partner Benjamin Bernheim, who has just made a remarkable debut at the Vienna State Opera as Edgardo.   More info and […]

Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice has just appointed its new music director with Riccardo Minasi taking up his post in September 2022. But it doesn’t stop there as Fabio Luisi has been appointed honorary conductor, Donato Renzetti emeritus conductor and Francesco Filidei composer in residence.   See all shows at Teatro Carlo Felice here :

After celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Ensemble Matheus, the 20th anniversary of the Concert d’Astrée and Marielle Nordmann’s 81st birthday, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées now welcomes the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées to celebrate its 30th anniversary. For the occasion, the orchestra will perform Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) […]

In June 2022, lucky Parisians don’t have to go far because the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is hosting three great European orchestras. On 2 June, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden opens the ball with Christian Thielemann and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9. The following day, András Schiff plays and conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment from […]

Maestro Zubin Mehta is no longer able to conduct Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in Florence as part of the Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, as he is scheduled to undergo shoulder surgery. Thanks to a few adjustments in dates, the director emeritus of the prestigious event has been replaced by Marc Minkowski, a sought-after […]

Due to an illness that has prevented him from taking part in rehearsals, Maestro Riccardo Chailly, Music Director of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, will not be conducting the performances of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera on the prestigious Italian stage scheduled for 4 to 22 May 2022. In the pit, Nicola Luisotti and Giampaolo […]

While the Bru Zane Foundation defends the heritage of French Romantic music all over the world, its headquarters are located in the heart of the City of the Doges. In Venice, the Palazzetto Bru Zane, a little jewel of Venetian architecture from the end of the 17th century, hosts a very fine series of concerts […]