It was to be one of the highlights of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s season, but in agreement with director Romeo Castellucci, the performances of Bach’s Matthäus-Passion scheduled for 10-13 April have been postponed until 2024. Due to the continuing pandemic, the project for the production directed by James Conlon could not be completed. From […]
The prestigious Baden-Baden Easter Festival is forced to change its line-up with the announcement of a reorganisation. It has been agreed with the interested party that Anna Netrebko will not perform with the Berliner Philharmoniker on 13 April 2022. Kirill Peternko is considering a new programme. Perhaps most sadly, while she was the other star […]
The war in Ukraine has had many repercussions on the world of culture and especially on classical music. In addition to the temporary withdrawal of Anna Netrebko, the cancellation of Denis Matsuev’s concerts, the resignation of Valery Gergiev and, more surprisingly, Tugan Sokhiev’s, musical director of the Bolshoi in Moscow and of the Orchestre national […]
The final of the second edition of the international La Maestra competition, which took place on Sunday 6 March 2022 at the Philharmonie de Paris, crowned Anna Sulkowska-Migon, a young Polish chef aged 26. Her compatriot Joanna Natalia Slusarczyk won second prize ahead of the Spanish Beatriz Fernandez Aucejo. Congratulations and best wishes for success […]
The Teatro alla Scala in Milan is once again performing the Italian repertoire with Adriana Lecouvreur, a masterpiece by Francesco Cilea. The greatest sopranos have performed in the role, such as Maria Agresta and Anna Netrebko now, who will alternate between 4 and 19 March 2022. The lovers of his ladies Freddie De Tommaso and […]
César Franck is the composer at the heart of the 2022 celebrations. Born in Liège on 10 December 1822, he is one of the great figures of the musical world of the XIXᵉ century. It is not surprising that the brilliant Palazzetto Bru Zane, a great specialist in French Romantic music, should propose a cycle […]
On 1 and 3 March 2022, the Teatro Real in Madrid will be the scene of a new summit meeting before Paris. After having performed Ophelia and Hamlet (in Thomas’s Hamlet), soprano Sabine Devieilhe reunites with baritone Stéphane Degout in Lakmé, the sublime masterpiece by Léo Delibes. The Madrid concert version conducted by Leo Hussain […]
Platée, Rameau’s masterpiece, will be performed at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse from 19 to 24 March 2022 and then at the Opéra Royal in Versailles from 18 to 22 May. Conducted by fellow conductor Hervé Niquet (at the head of the Concert Spirituel), the eagerly awaited production by Corinne and Gilles Benizio (Shirley […]
With the Collegium 1704 conducted by Vaclav Luks, the new production of Handel’s Alcina, recently staged by Jiri Herman at the National Theatre in Brno, will make a stopover in Caen and the Royal Opera of Versailles. On 10, 12 and 13 March 2022, Karina Gauvin will be back in the magical role of Alcina, […]
On Saturday 19, Sunday 20 and Monday 21 February 2022, lovers of Bach’s music will be in Paris in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez of the Philharmonie for one of three concerts. Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble performs three oratorios devoted to the great Christian festivals (Christmas, Easter, Ascension) completed by the St John […]
