For the first time, Les Étés de la Danse Festival will be held at La Seine Musicale on the Seguin Island on the Seine river, from 4 to 22 juillet 2017 starring the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

On 28 June at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, superb soprano Pretty Yende performs her first Paris recital in a French & Italian opera arias concert

As it is now harder to visit the USA for an artist, Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov prefers not to leave the country and cancels the concert in Baden-Baden on 21 July 2017. Behzod Abduraimov replaces him and performs with Valery Gergiev.

The opera season is not finished yet at Zurich for example, Wagner’s Lohengrin staged by Andreas Homoki, is conducted by Fabio Luisi from July 4th!

The 2017 edition just ended with Herbert Blomstedt conducting Bach’s Messe in B minor, the 2018 programme of the famous Bachfest Leipzig is already announced, the Festival will be held from June 8th to 17th 2018!

Beautiful Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko-Mariotti performs a role-debut as Leila in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles on June 24th at Staatsoper Berlin.

Conductor Daniel Harding has hurt his wrist and is forced to cancel his next opera production at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Eivind Gullberg Jensen replaces him and conducts Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.

From June 19th, all opera lovers will attend Richard Strauss’ Elektra at Wiener Staatsoper starring the fanstatic Nina Stemme!

Congrats to superb French soprano Sabine Devieilhe for her début tomorrow at Teatro alla Scala de Milano in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem serail (her interview in French here)!

Superstar pianist Lang Lang needs a physical therapy on his left arm and must cancel his concerts until the end of the summer such as London Symphony Orchestra’s on July 11th and 12th conducted by Simon Rattle. Denis Kozhukhin replaces him.