The Teatro alla Scala is performing for the second time at the Chorégies d’Orange. After a major concert with Maestro Riccardo Chailly last season, it is now the turn of the ballet company, directed since 2020 by Manuel Legris, to perform on the vast stage of the impressive ancient theatre. On 15 July 2023, La […]
Joyce DiDonato was due to take on the role of Carmen in Strasbourg, but will not be taking part in the production. Elena Maximova is replacing her. Other Carmens are expected in France in the near future, such as Marie-Nicole Lemieux at the Chorégies d’Orange or, closer, the flamboyant Gaëlle Arquez, who will be on […]
And three! The ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris has just acquired a third star by naming Guillaume Diop as étoile after a performance of Giselle in Seoul on Saturday 11 March 2023. This distinction follows shortly after those of Hannah O’Neill and Marc Moreau during the performance of Balanchine at the Palais Garnier. The […]
On May 6, 2023, all the world’s television stations will broadcast the crowning of the new king of the United Kingdom. It is said at Buckingham Palace that the future Charles III would have chosen himself the music for this ceremony which will take place at Westminster Abbey. Byrd, Elgar and Handel are on the […]
While Martina Franca mourns the death of the President of the Paolo Grassi Foundation (organiser of the Festival della Valle d’Itria), Berlin has chosen Aviel Cahn, the current General Director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, to lead the Berlin Deutsche Oper from the 2026-2027 season. Dubai Opera also has a new General Director in […]
After performing the premiere of an Aucoin, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky and Verdi concert at Carnegie Hall in New York (22 June 2023), Yannick Nézet-Séguin is taking his orchestra to Europe. The Met Orchestra is expected to perform on 27 June 2023 at the Philharmonie de Paris and on 2 July at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with soprano […]
You have to wait two more days to acquire a rare album devoted to French women composers thanks to the Palazzetto Bru Zane, which is publishing a boxed set of 8 discs built around their works that have been ignored for too long. Today (International Women’s Rights Day), we should remember that even the French […]
While he has just published a book of interviews with Antoine Boulay (Marc Minkowski – Chef d’orchestre ou centaure, Séguier edition), while he is coming out of a triumphant tour of Handel’s Alcina and while he is expected to conduct Massenet’s Manon in April 2023 at the Liceu, Marc Minkowski has had a fall, not […]
From 17 March to 4 April 2023, the Opéra de Lyon is holding its festival on the theme of “Crossing the gates” with three operas on the bill. With Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Bluthaus (The House of Crime) by Haas and Monteverdi. It will be a question of thresholds to be […]
Brilliant winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth Competition, pianist Jonathan Fournel is still too discreetly scheduled in the major Parisian venues. The Philharmonie de Paris is now making up for this anomaly by inviting him and the Orchestre national d’Ile de France, conducted by Lio Kuokman, on Wednesday 19 April 2023 for a second Brahms […]
