After the Paris premiere of the violin concerto entitled “Le sommeil a pris ton empreinte”, Berlin is preparing to welcome the work by French composer Camille Pépin for the very first time. Conductor Robin Ticciati leads the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the German premiere on 15 October 2023 at the Philharmonie with, as in Paris, […]
A major event of the season, a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen is on the cards, with the first episode of Wagner’s tetralogy on show from 24 October to 9 November 2023. La Monnaie de Bruxelles is decked out in gold with Das Rheingold, conducted as it should be by its musical director […]
The great conductor Franz Welser-Möst, former Music Director of the Vienna Opera and current Principal Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, will not be making his comeback as expected. Stricken with cancer, he has just undergone surgery, which now requires rest and treatment. He is therefore forced to cancel his engagements until the end of the […]
2024 is sure to be a great Puccini year to mark the hundredth anniversary of his death. The Opernhaus Zürich has decided not to wait, programming La rondine, a delicate masterpiece that will be performed for the very first time in Switzerland! From 17 September 2023, the sensitive Ermonela Jaho and the magnificent Benjamin Bernheim […]
The scandal of the summer will have allowed a new talent to blossom. After John Eliot Gardiner slapped one of the artists in the cast of Berlioz’s Les Troyens at La Côte-Saint-André, the great anticipated event of the season turned into a sordid news item. John Eliot Gardiner was undoubtedly one of the greatest Berlioz […]
The great conductor Riccardo Chailly is fulfilling his wish to take La Scala’s music outside its home in Milan. Under his direction, the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala will perform their finest repertoire, the choruses and overtures from Verdi’s operas, on tour from 31 August to 12 September 2023 in Verona, Grafenegg, Vienna, […]
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Kaija Saariaho on 2 June 2023. The great Finnish composer died this weekend in Paris after a long illness. She left a prolific body of work that made her one of the best-known figures in contemporary classical music. Her compositions, in a recognisable […]
As it sometimes does for dance companies, the Opéra national de Paris is preparing to host Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu on 10 June 2023. Josep Pons, music director of the Liceu orchestra, will conduct a concert version of Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. After his Barone Scarpia in Tosca in 2022, the famous Welsh baritone […]
The Maison du Cygne in Six-Fours les Plages near Marseille in France will host the Nuits du Cygne from 27 May to 18 June 2023, the first part of the La Vague Classique season. Renaud Capuçon, Paul Zientara, Stéphanie Huang and Guillaume Bellom will open the new edition which includes 11 prestigious concerts. After another […]
The news would almost have gone unnoticed, but on 23 April 2023, after an acclaimed performance of Lohengrin in which she performed as Ortrud, the great Wagnerian soprano Nina Stemme was made an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera, a title that crowns an exemplary career… Your tickets for Nina Stemme’s performances […]
