The end of season event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris will indeed take place but without the lively conductor Lorenzo Viotti. Indeed, he has just withdrawn from the production of Puccini’s La Bohème directed by Eric Ruf which will take place from 15 to 24 June 2023. Lorenzo Passerini replaces as musical director […]
The Italian Council of Ministers and its far-right president Giorgia Meloni have passed a decree banning foreign superintendents of the country’s opera and symphony foundations from holding office past the age of 70, effective 10 June. In the firing line is Frenchman Stéphane Lissner, former director of La Scala in Milan and the Opéra national […]
In anticipation of the grand final to be held on Friday 23 February 2024 at the Opéra national de Paris, the Voix des Outre-Mer competition is awaiting its audience for the very first Ile-de-France final on 3 July 2023. The young artists of tomorrow can be discovered at the Ile-de-France Region’s premises in Saint-Ouen. […]
From 6 to 22 June 2023 in Milan, the world’s most famous opera house will be hosting a masterpiece for the very first time, even though it has been performed everywhere else! Surprising as it may seem, Teatro alla Scala has never before performed Rusalka, Dvořák’s masterpiece. This will be done with Emma Dante’s new […]
After a contemporary Romeo and Juliet at the Seine Musicale, born from the collaboration between Solenne du Hays Mascré and Benjamin Millepied (founder of the L.A. Dance Project), the duo is creating a new project called Paris Dance Project around transmission and sharing. This artistic and social approach is based on 4 fundamentals: dance everywhere […]
As it sometimes does for dance companies, the Opéra national de Paris is preparing to host Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu on 10 June 2023. Josep Pons, music director of the Liceu orchestra, will conduct a concert version of Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. After his Barone Scarpia in Tosca in 2022, the famous Welsh baritone […]
The Maison du Cygne in Six-Fours les Plages near Marseille in France will host the Nuits du Cygne from 27 May to 18 June 2023, the first part of the La Vague Classique season. Renaud Capuçon, Paul Zientara, Stéphanie Huang and Guillaume Bellom will open the new edition which includes 11 prestigious concerts. After another […]
The new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Rome Opera, from 16 to 25 June 2023, is likely to be the talk of the town. Although it marks the return of Italian soprano Eleonora Buratto as Cio-cio-san after her success at the Metropolitan in New York, and although Roberto Abbado, the highly experienced conductor, […]
The Palazzetto Bru Zane has been accustomed to rediscoveries for almost fifteen years now, but the announcement of the programme for the 10th edition of its Festival in Paris (from 19 June to 4 July 2023) is still surprising. On the programme, the rare Grisélidis by Jules Massenet, created in 1901 at the Opéra-Comique, will […]
At 63, George Benjamin is one of the most prominent composers of our time. After the huge success of Written on Skin, premiered in 2012 in Aix-en-Provence, Lessons in Love and Violence, his third opera, premiered in London in 2018, will be performed at the Zurich Opera House from 21 May to 11 June 2023 […]
