As the programme for the next 2022 Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence is unveiled, the music lovers’ party seems to be confirmed on all floors and in all halls with Mozart’s Idomeneo and Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon at the l’Archevêché theater, Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Strauss’s Salome, concert […]
A masterpiece of Italian opera that is rather rare on European Opera stages, Giordano’s Andrea Chénier will open the 2022 season of the Greek National Opera, from 20 January to 13 February 2022 (conducted by Philippe Auguin with alternating Marcelo Puente and Marcelo Álvarez, Cellia Costea and Eva-Maria Westbroek, Dimitri Platanias and Elchin Azizov…) before […]
On 29 December 2021, at the end of the last performance of Verdi’s Macbeth, which opened the new season at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Patrizia Cappuccilli, the daughter of the great baritone, presented Luca Salsi with the Cappuccili Prize in the presence of the Superintendent Dominique Meyer and the Artistic Director of La Scala, […]
While a Covid peak is expected in Austria in the middle of Mozart Week, the Festival and its artistic director, the famous tenor Rolando Villazón, have taken the sad decision to cancel the 2022 edition of the Mozartwoche, making Mozart another Covid victim! Book your tickets for a show in Austria. Photo : […]
While Manon is expected at the Opéra Bastille from 5 to 26 February 2022, performed by Ailyn Pérez in Jules Massenet’s masterpiece, her Chevalier des Grieux will not be Joshua Guerrero as announced. The tenor having withdrawn from the production for health reasons, he leaves his place to three other colleagues, Roberto Alagna (on 5, […]
On 5 January, the great pianist Maurizio Pollini celebrated his 80th birthday. With few opportunities to see him on stage, aficionados will be scrambling for the last available seats in Rome or Milan. On 28 March, Pollini will give his 150th concert at the Teatro alla Scala. More info / Book your tickets here […]
While a cast of Tosca had been announced at the beginning of the season with Ildar Abdrazakov making his role début as Barone Scarpia, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples has surreptitiously changed the names. The baritone is still on board, but the good surprise comes from his tenor colleague, a certain Jonas Kaufmann, […]
From 13 to 27 February 2022 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, a new triumph is expected for the German soprano Marlis Petersen who, after the success of her Marietta in Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt in Munich, takes on a new golden role as Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case. Janácek’s rarely performed masterpiece is […]
As part of the TranscenDanses, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris will host Schubert’s Winterreise danced by the Ballet Preljocaj from 28 to 30 January 2022. Angelin Preljocaj, a talented choreographer who needs no introduction, was inspired by Schubert’s masterpiece, performed on stage by the baritone Thomas Tatzl and pianist James Vaughan. More info […]
Anna Netrebko was due to perform as Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco from 14 to 23 January 2022, but will not be coming to London to the Royal Opera House in Convent Garden due to the UK’s current travel restrictions. Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska will sing in her place alongside Amartuvshin Enkhbat in this Nabucco conducted by […]
