An excellent choice at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, with a beautiful serie of concerts starring the young and extremely talented Belgian tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen. On November 4 at the Protestant Chapel, Reinoud Van Mechelen performs a Lieder recital with works by Schumann and Liszt (as Liszt’s Tre Sonetti di Petrarca). At the […]
The beautiful Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival hosts a great Institution 2019. Renaud Capuçon invites the Mozartwoche Salzburg. During the Aix Easter Festival, Rolando Villazón the new artistic director of the famous Austrian Festival offers a series of concerts starring the divine Olga Peretyatko, Robert Levin or Rolando Villazón himself. A couple of concerts are conducted by […]
On 4 november 2018, at the Opernhaus Zurich Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte will be premiered with a bitter taste. It is so unusual for a Theater director to be under house arrest. For more than a year, Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been kept in Moscow. Thanks to the distance work accomplished with his co-director […]
Leading the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor Robin Ticciati performs two outstanding concerts at the Philharmonie Berlin. First on 9 November, starring Julie Boulianne, Paul Appleby, Alastair Miles and the Rundfunkchor Berlin leads by Daniel Reuss, Ticciati conducts Hector Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette. On 16 & 17 November, he performs Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 and starring […]
Donizetti’s comedy La Fille du Régiment will be performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera from February 7 with a brilliant cast starring Pretty Yende in the role of Marie, Javier Camarena as Tonio and Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro sharing the role of Sergeant. Amrerican actress Kathleen Turner join the cast to perfom the non-singing […]
French conductor François-Xavier Roth’s contract as Principal Conductor of the Gürzenich-Orchester and Music Director of Köln City has been extended to 2022.
Is Damiano Michieletto the best director of the Teatro La Fenice de Venice? For the 2018/2019 season opening of the most prestigious and gorgeous Italian Opera (and certainly in all other the world), Michieletto is staging a new production of Verdi’s Macbeth. It is his ninth production at La Fenice in Venice after Gounod’s Roméo […]
Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska makes her debut as Leonora from Verdi’s Il Trovatore in Staatsoper Berlin on the 27th of October 2018 in Philipp Stölzl’s production.
On 13 November, New York’s Carnegie Hall is welcoming the first concert of a serie starring conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra with a Wagner, Bates and Respighi programme and Chausson’s superbe Poème de l’amour et de la mer performed by great mezzo Joyce DiDonato.
The happy few who attended the dress rehearsal of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at Paris’ Opéra-Comique are really enthousiastic. Apparently, this production is a must, one of the most fantastic production ever of the masterpiece. Some tickets are still available… Don’t miss it !
