The Verona Arena Opera Festival may be a mainstream event, but it is no joke when it comes to artistic standards. While conducting Puccini’s Turandot last August, Plácido Domingo deeply disappointed the members of the orchestra who criticised him for having botched the rehearsals and the performance. Faced with the criticism, the singer and conductor […]
Two of our greatest sopranos, Jodie Devos and Sabine Devieilhe, will be on stage in the same role in September 2022, each in her native country. At the Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège from 20 September to 1 October 2022, Jodie Devos will have Philippe Talbot and Lionel Lhote as her partners, while Sabine Devieilhe […]
The renowned and prestigious Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia opens its 2022-23 season with, for once, an opera in concert version. On 18, 20 and 22 October 2022, the furious music of Elektra, Richard Strauss’ stunning opera, will resound in the Sala Santa Cecilia of the Parco della Musica. Music director Antonio Pappano‘s cast […]
Italian director Damiano Michieletto is a very busy man especially this autumn. On 18 October 2022, Handel’s Alcina will be premiered at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The title role will be performed by the diva Cecilia Bartoli, who has already performed in Salzburg in 2019. On 28 October, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier conducted […]
The Aujourd’hui Musiques Festival, which will be held from 10 to 20 November 2022 at L’Archipel Scène Nationale de Perpignan, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this season. For thirty years now, the Festival has been honouring different contemporary musical writings, composers and their performers. This season’s programme includes composers such as Betsy Jolas, Kaija Saariaho, […]
As the New York Philharmonic prepares to move back into Lincoln Center, the cultural complex is making a gesture to its generous donors. The renovated David Geffen Hall will now bear the names of Clara Wu Tsai and Joe Tsai. With $50 million donated to accelerate the project, the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall […]
The Champs-Elysées will welcome Orpheus and Eurydice as it should, but from 21 September to 1 October 2022, this is not mythology! The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées reprises Robert Carsen’s magnificent production of Gluck’s opera to offer the superb Jakub Józef Orliński the iconic and much-anticipated role of Orfeo. With his golden voice and magazine cover […]
From 11th to 29th of September 2022, La Monnaie in Brussels is back in the game with Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, directed by David Marton, who had been waiting for its premiere for two years. In addition to the engaging cast (Dmitry Golovnin, Anna Nechaeva, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Jacques Imbrailo, Laurent Naouri…), the trump […]
The Philharmonie de Paris is back with a bang, with a line-up of great conductors. On the 6th and 7th of September 2020, Yannick Nézet-Séguin opens the ball with the Philadelphia Orchestra (and a fine programme with, in particular, the soprano Angel Blue, the revelation of Gounod’s Faust at Bastille). On the 8th and 9th, […]
