In Australia too! The famous Sydney Opera House is closed like all the other theaters in the world but fortunatly he is also on the web broadcasting opera performances such as Lehàr’s Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) performed by the greatest Australian artist ever, Dame Joan Sutherland, to discover here.   Opéra de Sydney © […]

Let’s talk about 2023 in Leipzig? Gotthold Schwarz, the current Cantor of Leipzig will retire in June 2021. His successor will have a real challenge. Indeed, he will take over from another great Cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach who was appointed to this position on April 22, 1723, exactly 300 years in 2023. Celebrations are coming […]

All is not lost in Versailles ! Even if some brilliant performances have been canceled, the end of the 2019-2020 season is partly saved. Some recitals are postponed such as Jakub Józef Orlinski’s (scheduled on April 20, 2020 and postponed to December 14, 2020), Cecilia Bartoli’s (from March 30, 2020 to October 10, 2020) or […]

While the 2020 edition has been canceled, the Berliner Philharmoniker with his brilliant Music Director Kirill Petrenko and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden just announced the extention of their collaboration around the prestigious Osterfestspiele (the Easter Festival) beyond 2022. While the 2021 and 2022 editions will focus on the Russian repertoire, Richard Strauss will be at the […]

Piano recitals can be watched also through virtual webcast. The Gilmore Piano Festival, canceled this season like so many others, schedules two very interesting performances to discover two of the most promising pianists of the new generation. Seong-Jin Cho performs Chopin’s Preludes on May 1, 2020 and Igor Levit, Beethoven’s sonatas, on the 5th on […]

Madness in Quarantine! The Monte-Carlo Opera offers each week to watch or re-watch one of its prestigious productions. This week, Act III of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor directed by Jean Louis Grinda starring Olga Peretyatko, can be discovered as an example of what could happen if we are locked up way too long! Photo : […]

Ballet too! While digital platforms offer many operas, ballets are online too. This is the case, for example, of the Stuttgart Ballet which presents online two productions, Johan Inger’s Out of Breath and John Cranko’s Onegin.   Photo : Stuttgart Ballet © DR site officiel

So many rumors can be found on the social media that it is difficult to sort the truth out. After the announcement of Chancellor Angela Merkel who banned all meetings, sporting events and concerts until August 31, at the earliest in Germany, one can read here and there that the concert venues would not reopen […]

The Opera seasons on line are a real success. La Monnaie De Munt in Brussels, for example, had more than 75,000 views on his website. For the music lover pleasure, the famous Belgian Opera House is now performing online a new selection of seven operas, available for free from Monday April 20 to Sunday May […]

All together at the Met! In this terrible moment, the great New York Opera House flashes by calling no less than 40 quarantined artists to perform a At-Home Gala larger than life. The free concert will take place online on the Met website, on April 25 at 1:00 p.m. local time (which corresponds to 7:00 […]