The theme of the Versailles Festival 2017 (from 19 May to 14 July) is « Fêtes Royales », royal guests perform such as Cecilia Bartoli, Jordi Savall or young artist Lea Desandre

Superb mezzo Joyce DiDonato is back at New York’s Carnegie Hall on 30 April to perform Handel’s Ariodante in a concert version conducted by Harry Bicket and co-starring also soprano Christiane Karg

Sold out! all tickets to attend Verdi’s Otello at London’s Royal Opera House in June-July 2017 are gone! Antonio Pappano and Keith Warner could be the reason why or maybe it is Maria Agresta, Ludovic Tézier or Jonas Kaufmann perhaps ! Consolation, the performances of June 24 & 28 are filmed.

On 8 April at Philharmonie Berlin, François-Xavier Roth conducts a French-Spanich-Russian programme with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and pianist Javier Perianes, performing Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole, de Falla’s Noches en los jardines de España and Stravinsky’s Petrushka

From 2 April at Zurich Opera, Juan Diego Flórez performs on stage as Werther in Massenet’s opera directed by Tatjana Gürbaca with Anna Stéphany, Mélissa Petit and Audun Iversen

Great talent scout, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire performs Vivaldi’s Orlando at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on 19 avril with Amaya Domínguez and Samantha Louis-Jean as Orlando and Angelica

Discover the 2016-2017 season!   It´s been nearly fifteen years since the majestic Parco della Musica by architect Renzo Piano opened its doors in Rome, readily met by an enthusiastic and ever growing audience. It must be said that the residential orchestra is very prestigious. The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is directed since […]

Discover the 2016-2017 season!   Stéphane Lissner´s second season at the head of the Paris Opera and already the last for Benjamin Millepied, director of dance, fortunately to be replaced by Aurélie Dupont. Dance is predominant at the Palais Garnier, but some opera productions are more than worth a visit as they are quite prestigious. […]

Discover the 2016-2017 season!   ​The great city of Rome has a beautiful opera house, however without the reputation of La Fenice in Venice and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. And yet one should book seats at the Teatro dell’Opera as between ballets, opera performances and concerts, there are many beautiful things to see. […]

Discover the 2016-2017 season!   As everyone knows, December 7 is a special date in the international opera season since this is when the new season of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan takes off. The latest productions from September to November are also praiseworthy. L’incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi in the staging by […]