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How could anyone resist the joint initiative of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Chocolats Foucher, who have designed a special box bearing the effigy of the Avenue Montaigne opera house to house a selection of 12 pralines and ganaches of dark and milk chocolates. These 115 grams of pleasure can be tasted directly in […]

Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera has just announced the name of its new artistic director. In choosing Francesco Giambrone, the Italian institution has acquired a great professional who has already revived the Teatro Massimo in Palermo where he has been in post since 2014. He leaves his hometown of Palermo, where he leaves Music Director Omer Meir […]

After detecting some cases of Covid within the corps de ballet, La Scala in Milan has been forced to postpone the opening of its dance season by a few days. The performances of La Bayadère that should have taken place on 15 and 17 December 2021 have been postponed to 12 and 13 January 2022. […]

Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera presents a new production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller from 8 to 17 February 2022. The beautiful and rarely programmed opera is directed by Damiano Michieletto. The lover couple is performed by Roberta Mantegna and Antonio Poli with Daniela Barcellona, Amartuvshin Enkhbat and Michele Pertusi also on stage.   More info / Book […]

Like all theatres in Italy, the great Teatro Regio in Turin remained closed during the pandemic, but unlike the other opera houses in Italy, it has still not reopened. The theatre took advantage of this period to renovate its entire stage area. The inauguration of the new season will take place on 12 February 2022 […]

From 26 to 30 January 2022, the Queen dances at the famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice, which welcomes her in the gold and velvet of its splendid opera hall. The Malandain Ballet Biarritz presents its ballet Marie Antoinette created by Thierry Malandain at the Royal Opera of Versailles. A triple ticket Venice, Versailles, Biarritz […]

The great British director Deborah Warner, after the superb success of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Opéra Comique and Britten’s Billy Bud at the Teatro Real in Madrid, returns to the Théâtre du Châtelet, where she staged a perfect Beethoven’s Fidelio in 2002. From 19 to 29 January 2022, she will stage Messiah, Handel’s […]

The Opernhaus Zürich wasted no time in announcing the name of its new director, who will succeed Andreas Homoki from the 2025 season. Matthias Schulz is already a well-known figure in the music world, as he is currently the director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (where he joined in 2015). Born in Bavaria, Matthias […]

As in the rest of Austria, the Wiener Staatsoper has closed its doors to avoid contamination. The good news is that the legendary Viennese opera house is reopening its doors to the public and will welcome its audience again from this evening, 13 December 2021. For safety reasons, it was decided to cancel the Vienna […]