The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma opens its new season on November 27, 2024, at the Teatro Costanzi. Unsurprisingly, Verdi, Italy’s greatest opera composer, was chosen for the occasion, with Simon Boccanegra, an opera set in Venice. The almost entirely Italian cast includes Eleonora Buratto, born in Mantua, Luca Salsi and Michele Pertusi, both from Parma […]
The year 2025 will be a grand celebration of Ravel, who would have turned 150 on March 7. To mark the occasion, the Philharmonie de Paris is devoting to him an exhibition of a new kind for this major centre of French musical life. From December 3, 2024, to June 15, 2025, at the Musée […]
Conductor Eun Sun Kim is in demand on opera stages across both Europe and the United States, especially in San Francisco, where she has been music director since 2021. Recognizing her talent, the renowned San Francisco Opera has just extended her contract through 2031, announcing some upcoming productions already. Eun Sun Kim is expected to […]
At nearly 78, John Adams is one of the greatest living American composers. Unsurprisingly, the New York Philharmonic, one of the Big 5 orchestras in the US, is offering him an artistic partnership. In November, Adams, who is also a conductor, will lead this celebrated ensemble (on November 14-16, 2024) in a program featuring works […]
Who would believe it? Chopin isn’t dead, as he’s still composing! An incredible discovery was just made in New York in the vault room of the Morgan Library & Museum. The New York Times reports that an unpublished waltz score has been lying there, undisturbed, for nearly 200 years. Initially skeptical, curator Robinson McClellan consulted […]
Raffaele Pe has more than one string to his bow. The superb Italian countertenor is also the artistic director of a baroque ensemble that brings together experienced musicians and musicologists, La Lira di Orfeo. After a European tour that took them to London and Bologna in October 2024, they will return to their all-Vivaldi program […]
A hit on Broadway, in London, and on the big screen with over 130 million viewers worldwide, the musical Les Misérables returns to Paris from November 20, 2024, to January 2, 2025, at the Théâtre du Châtelet. Let’s remember that this record-breaking masterpiece premiered at the Palais des Sports in Paris in 1980. Since then, […]
The Ballets de Monte-Carlo are giving pride of place to creation for this new 2024-2025 season. The company will be offering no less than three world premieres at the Grimaldi Forum. In the spring of 2025, the German choreographer Marco Goecke will present his new work Transfigured Night. This will be followed in the summer […]
‘Without others, I don’t exist… or so little’ writes Jean-Christophe Maillot in Dance Feast. The famous director and choreographer of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo tells the story of his life in his biography illustrated by 300 photos. Following the watchwords of transmission and openness, he reveals himself with sensitivity and emotion to show the world […]
Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble a nocte temporis have already demonstrated their affinity with the repertoire of Rameau. A new project brings them closer once again to the great French composer of the 17th century with the famous Pygmalion, a one-act ballet created in 1748. In collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de […]
