Music & Opera wishes you all the best for a fantastic 2019… Happy New Year!

The Christmas presents are nearly unpacked, some other gifts await music lovers, at Easter in Baden Baden. The Osterfestspiele, led by the Berliner Philharmoniker, offers outstanding performances such as Verdi’s Otello not directed by Daniele Gatti as announced but by Maestro Zubin Mehta. In the Robert Wilson’s production an exceptional cast composd by Sonya Yoncheva, […]

As part of the serie “Les Grandes Voix” at Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on 10 January 2019 and before the Chorégies d’Orange in August, bass-baritone Erwin Schrott wears Don Giovanni’s clothes in a concert version of Mozart’s masterpiece with the Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Giovanni Antonini. His main partners (Julia Kleiter, Lucy Crowe, Christian Senn […]

Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande needs a chef. The New York’s Met offers Yannick Nézet-Séguin to conduct a rare revival of Debussy’s masterpiece staged by Jonathan Miller from 15 to 31 January 2019 starring Isabel Leonard, Paul Appleby, and Kyle Ketelsen.

At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the final of the prestigious Paris Opera Competition is on January 18, 2019. The list of the briliant finalists is composed by soprano Mélissa Petit (France), Julia Sitkovetsky (UK), Yaritza Veliz (Chile), mezzo-sopranos Lilly Jørstad (Norway), Zlata Khershberg (Israel), tenors Shan Huang (China), David Astorga (Costa Rica), baritones Ilya Kutyukhin […]

René Pape honored: the excellent bass has just been named Österreichischer Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera. Congratulations !

Postponement: For health reasons, the beloved tenor Rolando Villazón is forced to postpone his recital at Paris’ Salle Gaveau scheduled on December 20, 2018 to Tuesday, May 14, 2019. He has recently undergone surgery. We wish him all the best for a quick recovery.

The Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts and the Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie are taking a step ahead on Beethoven’s 250th anniversary celebrations (the German iconic composer is born on December 17, 1770). On January 6, 2019 Alain Altinoglu conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies 2 & 4. The world premiere of Mauricio Sotelo’s L’angelo necessario, per clarinetto e […]

Miss France 2019: An étoile of the Ballet among the members of the jury this year composed only by women. Alice Renavand is so familiar in beauty matter, she is one of the leading dancers of the famous Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris.

Music lovers xho want to spend a high-quality New Year’s Eve with a great conductor must run to the Berlin’s Konzerthaus on 30 and 31 December 2018 to attend the concert conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. He leads the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin to conduct Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The solo quartet is harmoniously formed by Genia Kühmeier, […]