From 9 May to 9 June 2024, the 47th edition of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele will be held under the title “Horizons“. As always, the programme, built by Jan Vogler, will feature great artists. In the iconic venues of this superb city on the banks of the Elbe, the famous cellist welcomes Jeanine De Bique, Matthias […]
Music & Opera Magazine – Special Festival is out! In this issue, the programmes of 203 Festivals in 27 countries and as many ideas to find the paths of summer and autumn in classical music! The big institutions as well as the smaller but no less interesting ones can be found in the pages to […]
The announced event will take place this summer with the Verona Arena Festival celebrating its 100th anniversary, from 16 June to 9 September 2023, with large-scale productions and ad hoc casts. All the stars of the international opera scene are invited to celebrate the occasion. Among them are the star dancer Roberto Bolle, Jonas Kaufmann […]
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 […]
From 17 March to 4 April 2023, the Opéra de Lyon is holding its festival on the theme of “Crossing the gates” with three operas on the bill. With Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Bluthaus (The House of Crime) by Haas and Monteverdi. It will be a question of thresholds to be […]
Premiered in 2014, the production of Puccini’s of Madama Butterfly makes an eagerly awaited return to the open air on the shores of Sydney Harbour as part of the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour summer season. Running from 24 March 2023 for 32 performances, Sydney residents and visitors will be attending Àlex Ollé‘s visionary staging […]
Earthquakes in the region have complicated the maintenance operations of the Teatro Rossini, currently underway in Pesaro. It will not be possible for the Rossini Opera Festival to use the hall, where a number of events are already scheduled, which creates a certain earthquake. The production of Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira is therefore moved to […]
The Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, which will be held from 4 to 24 July 2023, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Since the first performance of Così fan tutte in 1948, the Festival created by Gabriel Dussurget has become one of the great summer events. As a tribute to the first edition, a […]
The Colmar International Festival is undergoing a revolution. Directed for more than thirty years by the Russian conductor Vladimir Spivakov, the Alsatian institution has just named its new artistic director. From conductor to artistic director, Alain Altinoglu is wearing a new hat. The artist in place at the Monnaie de Bruxelles and the Hr-Sinfonieorchester will […]
The fast-moving and well-loved Rolando Villazón has more than one string to his bow. Singer, TV and radio host, the tenor who has taken over the artistic direction of the famous Mozartwoche in Salzburg in 2019 has just been reappointed. The renowned Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg has renewed its trust in Rolando Villazón for another five […]
