A major premiere at the Opéra National du Capitole de Toulouse, which, from 23 to 30 May 2023, is bringing a great masterpiece by Britten into its repertoire. The Rape of Lucretia, a pocket opera created in 1946 at the Glyndebourne Festival, is a poignant work that will be directed by Anne Delbée and conducted […]
Today the dance world is paying its last respects to the great choreographer Pierre Lacotte. On 10 April, his wife Ghislaine Thesmar, danseuse étoile, announced the passing of the master of dance at the age of 91. Student at the Paris Opera School of Dance, then a dancer at the prestigious Paris Opera House, he […]
The Saint-Saëns centenary of 2021 continues to bear fruit. Postponed due to the pandemic, La Monnaie in Brussels is offering a new production of a rare gem with Henry VIII. The opera is one of its many little-known masterpieces and will benefit from the musical direction of Alain Altinoglu and the staging of Olivier Py […]
The city of Montpellier will once again make bodies vibrate from 20 June to 4 July 2023 by inviting dancers, choreographers, companies, panels, dance lessons… For its 43rd edition, the Montpellier Danse festival is questioning the place of memory in contemporary dance. “This edition should have echoed the noise and fury of the world… perhaps […]
Having just founded the musical association Sourire Music, the superb soprano Chen Reiss received a few privileged guests in Paris, on 26 March 2023, in the Parisian mansion Le Sourire de Passy for a private concert in the spirit of the salons of the 18th and 19th centuries. On this occasion, she presented this new […]
What if the best Parsifal of the season was Viennese? Wagner‘s opera will be performed at the prestigious Vienna State Opera from 6 to 16 April 2023, during Easter week as tradition demands. The sacred stage festival is conduted by Philippe Jordan, who has assembled a prestigious cast with Klaus Florian Vogt succeeding Jonas Kaufmann […]
The Aix premiere made a lot of noise, since Innocence, Kaija Saariaho‘s new opera has been heard in Amsterdam and Helsinki. Before San Francisco where it is scheduled for June 2024, Simon Stone’s production will be performed at Covent Garden at the Royal Opera House in London from April 17 to May 4, 2023 under […]
The Richard-Strauss-Tage (Richard Strauss Days Festival) will be held in Dresden from 2 to 16 April 2023, in the hall where many of his creations were performed, the Semperoper. Concerts and operas are on the programme, but Christian Thielemann, the Staatskapelle’s principal conductor, will not be attending for health reasons. Der Rosenkavalier is now conducted […]
As the 2023-2024 season of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris has just been unveiled, the Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli seems to be taking the lion’s share of the spotlight by interpreting three emblematic roles of the great Baroque repertoire. In May 2023, he will be Orlando in Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso (with Jean-Christophe Spinosi […]
While she is a great success every night at the Opéra Bastille as Ophelia (alongside Ludovic Tézier’s Hamlet until 30 March 2023), while she completed a half-marathon last week at the Stade de France and while she has just been named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Lisette Oropesa is continuing her beautiful […]
