Ballet too! While digital platforms offer many operas, ballets are online too. This is the case, for example, of the Stuttgart Ballet which presents online two productions, Johan Inger’s Out of Breath and John Cranko’s Onegin. Photo : Stuttgart Ballet © DR site officiel
So many rumors can be found on the social media that it is difficult to sort the truth out. After the announcement of Chancellor Angela Merkel who banned all meetings, sporting events and concerts until August 31, at the earliest in Germany, one can read here and there that the concert venues would not reopen […]
The Opera seasons on line are a real success. La Monnaie De Munt in Brussels, for example, had more than 75,000 views on his website. For the music lover pleasure, the famous Belgian Opera House is now performing online a new selection of seven operas, available for free from Monday April 20 to Sunday May […]
Opera but not only … While digital platforms offer a generous supply of opera performances onlibe, orchestras are also offering their best. This week, the Philadelphia Orchestra honors its principal guest conductor, Stéphane Denève with a concert online and also a complete library of performances through Listen On Demand. Photo : Stéphane Denève […]
All together at the Met! In this terrible moment, the great New York Opera House flashes by calling no less than 40 quarantined artists to perform a At-Home Gala larger than life. The free concert will take place online on the Met website, on April 25 at 1:00 p.m. local time (which corresponds to 7:00 […]
Tugan Sokhiev will defintly perform at Toulouse’s La Halle aux Grains but Eugene is not expected anymore. As part of the prestigious concert series, Les Grands Interprètes – Toulouse, the two events scheduled for March 10 & 11, 2020 at the Halle aux Grains performed the Bolshoi troupe are not canceled. The concert version of […]
Sixth week of Opera streams. The Metropolitan Opera offers to watch exciting productions on this new week of confinement like R. Strauss’s Elektra directed by Esa-Pekka Salonen and starring Nina Stemme or Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann starring Joseph Calleja and Anna Netrebko, Verdi’s La Traviata starring Natalie Dessay and the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Puccini’s Tosca […]
Culture is in danger everywhere but it is particularly essential in certain countries. Luckily, the 48th Istanbul Music Festival scheduled to take place on 2-25 June 2020 is not canceled but postponed to the second half of September 2020 thanks to the fantastic entousiasm of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). Photo […]
A tragic thunderbolt jut hit the South of France. Two of the major opera festivals, the Festival d’Aix and the Chorégies d’Orange announced yesterday the complete cancellation of their 2020 edition. Because of the coronavirus, many opera lovers in the world are completely lost. They are now impatiently awaiting for the next step. Plans to […]
Even if Austria has maintained the interdiction of meetings involving the closing of theaters, the Bregenz Festival which will start on July 22, 2020 remains open with the revival of Verdi’s Rigoletto. On the floating stage, the production created last season requires less preparation. Rehearsals should begin on mid-June if everything goes well. Photo […]
