While it remains closed at least until the end of December due to the current health crisis, the Metropolitan Opera House launched on 18 July the “MET Stars Live in Concert” project, a series of 12 paid online and live recitals featuring the greatest opera stars of the moment. Throughout the summer and until the […]
The famous Turin and Milan Festival, the MITO SettembreMusica will be held from September 4 to 19, 2020. As a precaution, the major international orchestras have not been invited this year, where 80 prestigious concerts are still scheduled starring great artists such as Ottavio Dantone, Michele Mariotti, Daniele Rustioni, Andrea Lucchesini, Enrico Dindo, Giovanni Sollima,… […]
Tous à l’Opéra! The French event will fortunately take place this season 2020. On Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October 2020, the French opera houses open their doors to all Opera goers and curious. The event especially important this year is part of the World Opera Day. The wonderful mezzo Karine Deshayes is the godmother […]
At the Philharmonie de Paris, from Monday 16 to Thursday 19 March 2020, will take place the very first edition of the International Competition for Women Conductors, La Maestra (originally scheduled on March 2020). The jury chaired by Ewa Bogusz-Moore (director of National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice) and composed by chefs such as […]
A young talent to follow very closely. The 23 year’s old pianist Alexandre Kantorow will perform in the serie particulary well named The Great Performers in Toulouse. On Friday October 23, 2020, at the Toulouse’s Halle aux Grains, the first French winner of the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow performs Liszt’s Concerto No. 2 with […]
The Opera is back in Rome. The summer season of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma at the Baths of Caracalla has been canceled but fortunatly, the great Italian Opera House has found another place as exceptional. The Circo Massimo has been fitted out with all the safety measures to welcome summer opera goers, from July […]
First scheduled last June and postponed, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, the comédie ballet by Molière and Lully will be performed at the Opéra Comique in September 2020. From September 28 to October 8, 2020, Marc Minkowski (alternating with Thibault Noally) conducts the Lully part with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Jérôme Deschamps directs the Molière part. […]
2020-2021 is the season of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège. The superb Opera House is celebrating its bicentennial with many events that should be booked as soon as possible (the subscribers in Liège being particularly assiduous). The program features a Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet and Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment starring Jodie Devos, Offenbach’s La Belle […]
The exhibitions are back soon at the Philharmonie de Paris. From September 22, 2020 to January 3, 2021, “Les Musiques de Picasso” will be proposed. Cécile Godefroy, artistic director of the project, selected some 250 works to evoke the great painter who, facetious, declared “not to love music”! Photo : Philharmonie © William Beaucardet / […]
The famous Australian Company is about to present director Chen Shi-Zheng’s production in a three complete cycles of Wagner’s masterpiece from November 10 to December 5, 2020. Not as usual, Sydney nor Melbourne will host the colorful productions, but the Queensland Performing Arts Center in Brisbane. Photo : Queensland Performing Arts Centre de Brisbane […]
