While the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden was waiting for the performances of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (17-20 November 2022) conducted by Teodor Currentzis with his MusicAeterna orchestra, the conductor announced that some singers were no longer fully available for the solo parts. So no more Wagner, but an alternative of comparable value has been found with Verdi’s […]
London’s Royal Opera House has announced the name of Antonio Pappano’s successor as Music Director of the great English institution, who will take up his post in 2025. He is the excellent Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa, 41, currently Principal Conductor of the Bamberger Symphoniker, Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and of the […]
Budding Parisian soloists who are used to singing in the shower are invited to get out of their bathroom to show off their vocal organs. In partnership with the BETC communication agency and JCDecaux, on Thursday 27 October from 10am to 7pm, the Opéra Comique is organising “It’s show(er) time”, a happening where everyone is […]
Aix-en-Provence, the beautiful city of culture, will be in the spotlights in 2023. In July, the International Festival international d’art lyrique will celebrate its 75th summer, but before that, from 31 March to 16 April 2023, the 10-year anniversary edition of the Easter Festival will take place. Dominique Bluzet and Renaud Capuçon, respectively Executive Director […]
A real craze or a coincidence of the calendar, it seems that Gluck’s operas are arousing new interest in Paris. After Jakub Józef Orliński‘s magnificent Orfeo (at the TCE), and Julien Chauvin‘s surprising and successful exhumation of Iphigénie en Aulide (at Soissons and at the TCE), there are two titles soon to be performed that […]
New director Tobias Wolff opens the Leipzig Opera’s 2022/23 season with a rarity. The first performance of Albert Lortzing’s Undine on 29 October 2022 marks the beginning of the great Lortzing cycle, which will culminate in a festival in honour of the German composer in 2026. A former Kapellmeister (music director) of the Leipzig City […]
It is no secret that the love story between conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France continues. Honorary conductor of the orchestra where he was music director for 15 years, Chung will be back with his orchestra on Wednesday 7 December 2022 at the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse to conduct Mahler’s […]
Spectacular is the adjective often used to describe the Aida that Hugo de Ana conceived in 1998 with almost 300 artists. For the opening of its 2022-2023 opera season on 24 October, Madrid’s Teatro Real is reviving Verdi’s masterpiece with different casts. There will be 20 performances conducted by Nicola Luisotti, Daniel Oren and Diego […]
From 10 to 12 November 2022, Château de Versailles Spectacles presents Charpentier‘s moving David and Jonathas directed by Marshall Pynkoski, not at the Opera but in the Royal Chapel of Versailles and this is a first in the history of the place. Gaétan Jarry, who directs the Ensemble Marguerite Louise, has assembled a superb cast […]
In 1941, the deportation camp of Terezin was the scene of a sinister masquerade. In order to make the world believe that they cared, the Nazis allowed Red Cross visits to the camp and occasionally staged performances by incarcerated Jewish artists. During an hour of authorised music, Verdi’s Requiem has been performed several times on […]
