On March 30, 2018, two remarkable Saint John Passion will be performed on Good Friday. The best known Bach’s Johannes-Passion opens the first weekend of the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, starring Raphael Pichon and his ensemble Pygmalion. Another great conductor, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon offers to discover Gaetano Venziano’s Passio per il Venerdi Santo, at the Chapelle […]
A World Premier is always a big event even more in a prestigious Opera House such as the Wiener Staatsoper, Gottfried von Einem’s Dantons Tod conducted by Susanna Mälkki and directed by Josef Ernst Köpplingerwill be premiered on 24 March 2018.
At London’s Royal Opera House from 7–24 March Janáček’s From the House of the Dead will be premiered in a new production directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski.
The return of great baritone Bryn Terfel is expected at Zurich Opera in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer in Andreas Homoki production, from 18 March.
The London’s Barbican Center brigthly celebrates the International Women’s Day on 8 March 2018, with the Insula Orchestra conducted by Laurence Equilbey to perform Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto starring Alexandra Conunova, Natalie Clein and Alice Sara Ott.
The great Catalan artist Jordi Savall offers to discover an unknown Bach on 26 March at the Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles with a recreation of the Saint Mark Passion.
From 23 March, Australian Autumn welcomes a new open air production outside the walls, from the other side of the bay, Puccini’s La Bohème staged by Andy Morton is performed on Sydney Harbour Mrs Macquaries Point facing the famous Sydney Opera and Harbour Bridge, like a theatre set !
From 31 March, baroque opera is at the top at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper with the production of Cavalli’s La Calisto performed by a perfect cast : Christiane Karg, Tim Mead, Karina Gauvin, Anna Bonitatibus or Dominique Visse.
At Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on 27 March two beautiful baroque voices soprano Julia Lezhneva and countertenor Franco Fagioli perform Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.
One of the major event of the Festtage at Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin is the production of Wagner’s Parsifal conducted by Daniel Barenboim and staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov, starring Nina Stemme, Andreas Schager, René Pape and Falk Struckmann, on 30 March & 2 April.
