You have to browse the Teatro San Carlo’s website in Naples to find the information. Although he was scheduled to perform in a series of Puccini’s Tosca performances in September 2025, alongside Sondra Radvanovsky and Anna Pirozzi in alternating casts, Jonas Kaufmann has mysteriously disappeared from the lineup. However, on January 31, in the “News” […]
Among the great Italian Baroque composers who deserve to be rediscovered, Alessandro Scarlatti stands out, especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death. The composer—born in Palermo in 1660 and deceased in Naples on October 22, 1725—is the most distinguished representative of the Neapolitan school, with 114 operas to his name. Far […]
Freshly crowned, the winners of the Voix Nouvelles Competition are heading out on tour, with a stop scheduled for February 17, 2025, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Emy Gazeilles, Livia Louis-Joseph-Dogué, Juliette Mey, Héloïse Poulet, Léo Vermot-Desroches, and Lotte Verstaen are already familiar names and will become even better known during this concert featuring opera […]
The great soprano Lise Davidsen, who recently triumphed by stepping in for Anna Netrebko in Richard Strauss‘s Ariadne auf Naxos in Vienna, has just announced a double happy event. Indeed, the Wagnerian singer is expecting twins. At this time, we do not know if she will name them Sieglinde and Siegmund. However, she is putting […]
An exciting event is brewing at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, which will host Benjamin Bernheim’s first Parisian Werther. Widely considered one of today’s greatest French tenors, he will perform from March 22 to April 6, 2025, in a production directed by Christof Loy. This staging also marks a milestone for another beloved artist, well-known to […]
A masterpiece of German Romanticism, Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber returns to European opera stages, notably at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, which is presenting it as part of its groundbreaking season. Indeed, with Iphigénie en Tauride, Salome, and soon Wozzeck on the program, this season focuses on works that have shaken up the operatic […]
Launched in 2022 with Ariane et Bacchus by Marin Marais, the cycle of Baroque operas presented by Hervé Niquet and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées will come to an end on February 14, 2025. Following Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Iphigénie en Tauride by Henri Desmarest and André […]
The city of Dresden, once considered the cultural jewel of Germany, suffered immense losses during the devastating bombings of February 13–15, 1945. Eighty years later, with Dresden fully restored to its former glory, this somber anniversary will be marked by one of the most anticipated concerts of the season at the Dresden Philharmonie. On February […]
Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů had a deep connection to France, where he settled in 1923. His first opera, Juliette ou la Clé des songes, was completed in Nice (between the Cimiez hills and Port Lympia) and premiered in Czech at the Národní Divadlo in Prague, though the original version was written in French. It is […]
Premiered in Paris at the Opéra Comique on April 30, 1902, Claude Debussy’s masterpiece Pelléas et Mélisande took several decades to enter the repertoire of the Opéra national de Paris, debuting there on March 18, 1977. Similarly, Sabine Devieilhe has waited before taking on this iconic role in a staged production. Having already performed it […]
