From 9 to 23 December 2018, the blood floods the Zurich Opera stage thanks to Steven Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. As the monstrous Barber, incredible baritone Bryn Terfel will terrify the audience with his fellow mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager as Mrs. Lovett. Andreas Homoki directs and David Charles Abbell conducts.
While waiting for the Easter Festival, The Aix en Provence’s Grand Théâtre de Provence still presents a beautiful season. On December 1st, talented cellist Sol Gabetta performs Schumann’s Cello Concerto with the Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Giovanni Antonini.
A World Premiere is always a special event for an Opera House and particularly when this Opera House is the Wiener Staatsoper. On December 8 is premiered Johannes Maria Staud’s Die Weiden (The Willows) by German lyricist Durs Grünbein. The world premier is conducted by Ingo Metzmacher and staged by Andrea Moses.
New Year’s Eve : Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko will spend the New Year’s Eve in New York on Metropolitan Opera’s stage where she performs as Adriana Lecouvreur. On stage with her, a brilliant cast reminds the brilliant hours of the Met with Piotr Beczala, Anita Rachvelishvili and Ambrogio Maestri. David McVicar’s beautiful production is conducted […]
The Toulouse Grands Interprètes Serie invites the great pianist Murray Perahia, huge artist and Bach, Mozart, Beethoven or Chopin specialist to perform a piano recital on 28 January 2019 at Toulouse’s la Halle aux Grains.
We think we know everything about piano but there is still a lot to explore. The first Pianos Festival, to be held in Paris at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord on December 16 and 17, 2018, offers a new approch on the famous instrument with a programmation clever and amazing. On historical pianos, romantic […]
Music mix, the famous baroque French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm leads the New York Philharmonic on 21, 23 & 24 November 2018 (at Lincoln Center David Geffen Hall) to perform Handel’s Water Music Suites and Selections from Rameau’s Dardanus when Sir Simon Rattle conducts the new Berlin’s Staatsoper unter den Linden production of Rameau’s Hippolyte et […]
This is the hit of the end of Paris’ season. At the gorgeous Opéra Comique from 17 December 2018, Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet conducted by Louis Langrée has the best cast ever starring superlative bariton Stéphane Degout as Hamlet and soprano Sabine Devieilhe the new Ophélie and her debut as Shakespeare heroine! Few tickets are still […]
The sublime Roman diva is back on the concert roads to perform arias from Vivaldi, her beloved composer. The tour begins in November and for exemple at Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts on 20 November, at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on 23 or at Paris’ Philharmonie on 3 December…
After the Chorégies d’Orange and the Opéra de Lyon in France, now the New York Metropolitan Opera performs Boito’s Mefistofele (from 8 November 2018). The cast is composed by brilliant Michael Fabiano facing vilain Christian Van Horn and sweet Angela Meade as the Goethe heros. Robert Carsen’s production is conducted by Carlo Rizzi and Joseph […]
