Aix-en-Provence, the beautiful city of culture, will be in the spotlights in 2023. In July, the International Festival international d’art lyrique will celebrate its 75th summer, but before that, from 31 March to 16 April 2023, the 10-year anniversary edition of the Easter Festival will take place. Dominique Bluzet and Renaud Capuçon, respectively Executive Director […]

While the Festival dell’Arena di Verona 2023 is already making news with its 100th anniversary edition, the most famous opera festival in the world announced record profits for the 2022 edition. 342,187 spectators returned to the amphitheatre generating an average revenue per evening of €575,575, the highest in the history of the Fondazione Arena di […]

The Aujourd’hui Musiques Festival, which will be held from 10 to 20 November 2022 at L’Archipel Scène Nationale de Perpignan, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this season. For thirty years now, the Festival has been honouring different contemporary musical writings, composers and their performers. This season’s programme includes composers such as Betsy Jolas, Kaija Saariaho, […]

Spectators at the Festival dell’Arena di Verona who were present at the incredible temple of opera on 28 August 2022 for a performance of Verdi’s Aida were in for a nice surprise. While another tenor had been announced, they were able to witness the Verona stage debut of Jonas Kaufmann as Radames. After the recitals, […]

Not to be missed this summer, the lovely Riches Heures Musicales de la Rotonde festival (in Simiane-La-Rotonde in Haute-Provence) is celebrating an anniversary this year. The fortieth season like a fireworks takes place from 5 to 13 August 2022 with prestigious guests such as Sandrine Piau, Christophe Rousset and the splendid Karine Deshayes.   More […]

With bookings already in full swing, the Chorégies d’Orange is looking forward to lyrical and symphonic productions with some changes. Following the sad death of Nicholas Angelich, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard has agreed to perform Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto No. 5 alongside Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (7/7). Fabio Sartori has given up […]

Although it has participated in the success of many festival evenings, the Orchestre de Paris has not returned to Aix in four years. This 2022 season marks the great return of the Orchestra to the city of Aix, which will even be in residence at the Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence with three events. Richard […]

Maestro Zubin Mehta is no longer able to conduct Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in Florence as part of the Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, as he is scheduled to undergo shoulder surgery. Thanks to a few adjustments in dates, the director emeritus of the prestigious event has been replaced by Marc Minkowski, a sought-after […]

The programme and organisation of the Verbier Festival has just undergone some upheaval following Valery Gergiev’s request to resign as musical director of the Verbier Festival Orchestra. The opening of the 29th edition will be a concert redesigned in favour of a call for peace, solidarity and the inclusion of musicians of all nationalities. Italian […]

The prestigious Baden-Baden Easter Festival is forced to change its line-up with the announcement of a reorganisation. It has been agreed with the interested party that Anna Netrebko will not perform with the Berliner Philharmoniker on 13 April 2022. Kirill Peternko is considering a new programme. Perhaps most sadly, while she was the other star […]