The city of Montpellier will once again make bodies vibrate from 20 June to 4 July 2023 by inviting dancers, choreographers, companies, panels, dance lessons… For its 43rd edition, the Montpellier Danse festival is questioning the place of memory in contemporary dance. “This edition should have echoed the noise and fury of the world… perhaps […]
A former Kapellmeister at the court of Dresden, Wagner, who created Rienzi, Der Fliegende Holländer and Tannhäuser in the Saxon capital, invites himself to the Dresdner Musikfestspiele in an original version. At the instigation of its director Jan Vogler and Kent Nagano, the artistic director of the project, the festival wants to rediscover Wagner’s sound […]
Having just founded the musical association Sourire Music, the superb soprano Chen Reiss received a few privileged guests in Paris, on 26 March 2023, in the Parisian mansion Le Sourire de Passy for a private concert in the spirit of the salons of the 18th and 19th centuries. On this occasion, she presented this new […]
The Mozarteumorchester Salzburg (the Mozart Foundation’s orchestra founded in 1841 by Constance Mozart, the divine composer’s wife) is getting a new music director. From the 2024-25 season, the Spanish conductor Roberto González-Monjas will preside over the destiny of the Austrian orchestra. A former student of the Mozarteum University, he admits to an interest in and […]
Lars Von Trier’s movie made a lasting impression on the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 and then on audiences around the world. Breaking the Waves has since become an opera with music by Missy Mazzoli and a libretto by Royce Vavrek. Premiered in September 2016 at Opera Philadelphia, the production received the 2017 International Opera […]
As the 2023-2024 season of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris has just been unveiled, the Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli seems to be taking the lion’s share of the spotlight by interpreting three emblematic roles of the great Baroque repertoire. In May 2023, he will be Orlando in Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso (with Jean-Christophe Spinosi […]
After Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout, Karine Deshayes or Anne-Catherine Gillet, who will be the new winner of Voix Nouvelles 2023? The competition is entering its final phase with the semi-finals to be held at the Opéra de Massy on 28 and 29 June 2023. With the sponsorship of Agnès Jaoui, the grand national final will […]
The director Ted Huffman is flying from success to success. After his acclaimed Monteverdi in Aix-en-Provence last summer, his new production is eagerly awaited at the Oper Zürich, especially as it is a Shakespearean drama. From 10 April to 18 May 2023, Charles Gounod‘s masterpiece Romeo and Juliet will be conducted by Roberto Forés Veses […]
On Monday 17 April 2023, the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse will host a recital by a great lady of the piano. Maria João Pires was only 4 years old when she gave her first concert. Since then, she has lit up the great stages of the world, performing with the greatest. After deciding to […]
The talented conductor Omer Meir Wellber has been appointed as General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and its orchestra, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg. He succeeds Kent Nagano and will take up his new post from autumn 2025 while retaining his position as Music Director of the Volksoper Wien in Austria until the end […]
