While bad news are still coming from across the Atlantic with season cancellation announcements (the San Francisco Opera will not reopen until spring 2021), this is a good news to brighten up the lyric scene in Europe. The famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice is about to welcome audiance again from July 5, 2020 with […]

Hard times also for the Opera Contests since the edition of the Long Thibaud Crespin Singing competition, scheduled for November 2020, the Paris Opera Competition which was supposed to take place at the Palais Garnier in January 21 and Operalia the famous Placido Domingo competition expected in October in Tel Aviv are all postponed.   […]

The greatest Festival in the world, the Salzburger Festspiele was pugnacious enough to maintain what was to be its 100th edition. Scheduled over 30 days it will open on August 1, 2020. As usual great artists are announced but a big part of the special events scheduled for the 100th anniversary are postponed to 2021. The […]

Before a great 2020-2021 season, the Dresden Semperoper unexpectedly ends its 19-20 season with excerpts from Verdi’s Don Carlo performed by superstar Anna Netrebko and tenor Yusif Eyvazov. A Beethoven concert conducted by Christian Thielemann is also scheduled for a restricted audience obeying the current hygiene regulations…   Photo : Anna Netrebko et Yusif Eyvazov © Julian Hargreaves

Dear readers, Each year, many of you look forward to the release of the new Music & Opera Guide around the World. As you know, the unprecedented crisis that we are still going through has considerably changed cultural life by imposing silence in the halls where classical music usually resonates. Even if Operas and Concert […]

Life is back in Paris in a strange way! The Opéra Comique is the first lyric stage of the French Capital to welcome again his audience with the revival of a horribly funny show, the Horrific Cabaret by the brilliant Valérie Lesort (reviewed in french on CCC ). From June 27 to July 4, 2020, […]

After the announcement of an anticipated end of season due to the pandemic, the Swiss scene can welcome spectators again and take this opportunity to open again. The 2019-2020 season will finally end with a Festival starring great artists such as Diana Damrau, Thomas Hampson, Sabine Devieilhe and Benjamin Bernheim and many others, Piotr Beczala, […]

Domino effect at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The cancellation of the beginning of the opera season 2020-2021 has consequence on the 2021 season. For scheduling reasons, the Met cancels the revival of Berg’s Lulu production and replaces it with additional performances of Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia starring Brenda Rae who is switching from […]

New York is still in the crisis! After the cancellation of the beginning of the Metropolitan Opera’s season, it is now the New York Philharmonic who announce the cancellation of his concerts through January 5, 2021. In a country where the number of deaths remains very high, the safety of the audience, musicians, and employees […]

The rumor about Jonas Kaufmann denied! Here and there on social media, the cancelation of the famous tenor’s Christmas tour 2020 is announced, but this is fake news. Jonas Kaufmann has confirmed that the tour will be held unless of course COVID-19 prevents it. Munich, Frankfort and Paris are awaiting to welcome the event.   […]