Seong-Jin Cho, one more year Laureate ! The world famous Chopin Piano Competition is postponed till 2021. Seong-Jin remains the winner of the last competition one more year !   Photo : Seong-Jin Cho © Harald Hoffmann / DG

Like all major opera houses in the world, the Lyon Opera offers opera streaming but also this audio version of Verdi’s Nabucco. On France Musique website which has the good idea to ​​place its microphones at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on November 9, 2018, to record Daniele Rustioni conducting Verdi’s masterpiece performed by fabulous Amartuvshin […]

When the 2020 Festival becomes the 2021 ! Further to the cancellation of the stage productions of 2020 Festival, the Arena di Verona Foundation announced the complete postponement of all performances in 2021. Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Puccini’s Turandot, Verdi’s Aida, Nabucco & La Traviata will be performed next season. Jonas Kaufmann, the most […]

The Chorégies d’Orange are partly saved ! Four events on the seven scheduled are postponed to 2021. Finally, the Béjart Ballet Lausanne will dance on the stage of the Ancient Theater, Nemanja Radulović will play the violin, Cecilia Bartoli will make her debut there and, the production of Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Dalila will no doubt […]

In Australia too! The famous Sydney Opera House is closed like all the other theaters in the world but fortunatly he is also on the web broadcasting opera performances such as Lehàr’s Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) performed by the greatest Australian artist ever, Dame Joan Sutherland, to discover here.   Opéra de Sydney © […]

Let’s talk about 2023 in Leipzig? Gotthold Schwarz, the current Cantor of Leipzig will retire in June 2021. His successor will have a real challenge. Indeed, he will take over from another great Cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach who was appointed to this position on April 22, 1723, exactly 300 years in 2023. Celebrations are coming […]

All is not lost in Versailles ! Even if some brilliant performances have been canceled, the end of the 2019-2020 season is partly saved. Some recitals are postponed such as Jakub Józef Orlinski’s (scheduled on April 20, 2020 and postponed to December 14, 2020), Cecilia Bartoli’s (from March 30, 2020 to October 10, 2020) or […]

While the 2020 edition has been canceled, the Berliner Philharmoniker with his brilliant Music Director Kirill Petrenko and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden just announced the extention of their collaboration around the prestigious Osterfestspiele (the Easter Festival) beyond 2022. While the 2021 and 2022 editions will focus on the Russian repertoire, Richard Strauss will be at the […]

Piano recitals can be watched also through virtual webcast. The Gilmore Piano Festival, canceled this season like so many others, schedules two very interesting performances to discover two of the most promising pianists of the new generation. Seong-Jin Cho performs Chopin’s Preludes on May 1, 2020 and Igor Levit, Beethoven’s sonatas, on the 5th on […]

Madness in Quarantine! The Monte-Carlo Opera offers each week to watch or re-watch one of its prestigious productions. This week, Act III of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor directed by Jean Louis Grinda starring Olga Peretyatko, can be discovered as an example of what could happen if we are locked up way too long! Photo : […]