Not to be missed on 28 & 29 July 2018 at Festival Castell Peralada, two huge events with Jonas Kaufmann recital with orchestra (on 28) and a concert version of Massenet’s Thaïs starring Ermonela Jaho and Plácido Domingo (on 29). Tickets are already available!
Huge event at Brussels’ La Monnaie-De Munt, from 10 December where great Olivier Py’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites is performed conducted by Alain Altinoglu with two beautiful casts as Patricia Petibon & Anne-Catherine Gillet, Véronique Gens & Marie-Adeline Henry, Sophie Koch & Karine Deshayes, Sandrine Piau & Hendrickje Van Kerckhove, etc.
The Béjart Ballet Lausanne celebrates its 30th anniversary on tour to stop in Paris from 7 to 11 February 2018 where the ballet La Flûte enchantée will be performed at Palais des Congrès, booking is already opened!
At Aix, an exceptional piano recital is announced at Grand Théâtre de Provence on Friday 1 December 2017, fantastic painist Daniil Trifonov performs Chopin and variations on his works by Schumann, Grieg Tchaïkovski or Rachmaninov.
Conducting the new production of Puccini’s La Bohème from 1 December 2017 at Opéra Bastille, famous Venezulian conductor Gustavo Dudamel makes his debuts at the Opéra national de Paris.
We are very sad to learn the death of baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, at age 55, R.I.P.
And the Winner is : Swedish soprano Cornelia Beskow who won the first prize of the Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition 2017. Congrats !
A new Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia is announced at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées from 5 December staged by brilliant Laurent Pelly and directed by great Jérémie Rhorer but Kate Lindsey announced to perform as Rosina is pregnant, Catherine Trottmann replaces.
A superb December month at the Vienna’s Opera with the Richard Strauss’ days and 4 masterpieces performed : Daphne, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Arabella.
Two great artists at Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts on 20 December, pianist Alice Sara Ott joins le violinist Ray to perform legendary Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata.
