First scheduled last June and postponed, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, the comédie ballet by Molière and Lully will be performed at the Opéra Comique in September 2020. From September 28 to October 8, 2020, Marc Minkowski (alternating with Thibault Noally) conducts the Lully part with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Jérôme Deschamps directs the Molière part. […]
2020-2021 is the season of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège. The superb Opera House is celebrating its bicentennial with many events that should be booked as soon as possible (the subscribers in Liège being particularly assiduous). The program features a Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet and Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment starring Jodie Devos, Offenbach’s La Belle […]
The exhibitions are back soon at the Philharmonie de Paris. From September 22, 2020 to January 3, 2021, “Les Musiques de Picasso” will be proposed. Cécile Godefroy, artistic director of the project, selected some 250 works to evoke the great painter who, facetious, declared “not to love music”! Photo : Philharmonie © William Beaucardet / […]
The famous Australian Company is about to present director Chen Shi-Zheng’s production in a three complete cycles of Wagner’s masterpiece from November 10 to December 5, 2020. Not as usual, Sydney nor Melbourne will host the colorful productions, but the Queensland Performing Arts Center in Brisbane. Photo : Queensland Performing Arts Centre de Brisbane […]
The famous Spanish opera house, just reopened on July 1, 2020, has received the seal of the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification, which guarantees that the plans drawn up by the theater guarantee the safe return of the public. Photo : Teatro Real Madrid © Javier de el Real
Paris’ gem, the Palais Garnier welcomes visitors but not only. The legendery Opera House will host a concert on July 13 and 14, 2020. As a tribute to the medical staff and those who fight the virus, the Orchestra and the Choirs of the Paris National Opera will perform works by Mozart, Fauré and Dukas […]
Cristian Macelaru’s contract as principal conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester has been extended till the end of the 2024-2025 season. Macelaru, Solti Conducting Award laureate, is also expected in Paris from September 1st, 2021, to lead the Orchestre National de France as the new music director. Photo : Cristian Macelaru © Thomas Brill
Ennio Morricone, the most famous composer of film music, has just passed away at the age of 91. His name remains associated with film director Sergio Leone but he composed also for many movie directors such as Brian de Palma, John Huston, Bernardo Bertolucci or Quentin Tarantino. Morricone lived in Rome and composed so many […]
The Vienna Volksoper will soon reopen by welcoming its public with a reduced capacity to 65% of the seats, for the moment. On September 13, 2020, the musical Sweet Charity (immortalized on Broadway by the couple Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon) is the first on the 2020/21 season list of ten new productions. In September, revivals […]
The Teatro Real in Madrid welcomes his public again since July 1, 2020. 27 performances of Verdi’s La Traviata are scheduled for a limited number of music lovers with strict health and safety measures imposed by the pandemic. Despite all these precautions, Violetta will die on stage, every night in a cough! Photo : […]
