Tugan Sokhiev will defintly perform at Toulouse’s La Halle aux Grains but Eugene is not expected anymore. As part of the prestigious concert series, Les Grands Interprètes – Toulouse, the two events scheduled for March 10 & 11, 2020 at the Halle aux Grains performed the Bolshoi troupe are not canceled. The concert version of […]
Sixth week of Opera streams. The Metropolitan Opera offers to watch exciting productions on this new week of confinement like R. Strauss’s Elektra directed by Esa-Pekka Salonen and starring Nina Stemme or Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann starring Joseph Calleja and Anna Netrebko, Verdi’s La Traviata starring Natalie Dessay and the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Puccini’s Tosca […]
Culture is in danger everywhere but it is particularly essential in certain countries. Luckily, the 48th Istanbul Music Festival scheduled to take place on 2-25 June 2020 is not canceled but postponed to the second half of September 2020 thanks to the fantastic entousiasm of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). Photo […]
A tragic thunderbolt jut hit the South of France. Two of the major opera festivals, the Festival d’Aix and the Chorégies d’Orange announced yesterday the complete cancellation of their 2020 edition. Because of the coronavirus, many opera lovers in the world are completely lost. They are now impatiently awaiting for the next step. Plans to […]
Even if Austria has maintained the interdiction of meetings involving the closing of theaters, the Bregenz Festival which will start on July 22, 2020 remains open with the revival of Verdi’s Rigoletto. On the floating stage, the production created last season requires less preparation. Rehearsals should begin on mid-June if everything goes well. Photo […]
Music lovers from all other the world hold their breath. Futher to the announcement by the President of the French Republic not to authorize the gatherings before mid-July, the Director of the Chorégies of Orange Jean-Louis Grinda has just announced that “The question is not only to cancel or not the performances; it is also, […]
Wagner stays at home in his birth town. While Oper Leipzig (his hometown) just annonced its 20-21 season, it is already organizing a major festival dedicated to the famous composer, in 2022. From June 20 to July 14, 2022, all of 13 Wagner’s operas will be performed. This season already, the institution gives an overview […]
News from Japan … Also forced to cancel its performances (until May 10, 2020), the New National Theater in Tokyo joins the list of Operas that broadcast their productions online. On their website, opera fans can appreciate Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and then Puccini’s Turandot and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Program : 10 April, 15:00 – […]
Despite the speculations and the birds of ill omen, it is still supposed to take place and it promises to be exceptional! The Festival dell’Arena di Verona should welcome stars such as: Roberto Alagna, Marcelo Álvarez, Roberto Aronica, Angel Blue, Jorge de León, Plácido Domingo, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Yusif Eyvazov, Barbara Frittoli, Sonia Ganassi, Aida Garifullina, […]
Excellent news, great conductor Mirga Grazinytė-Tyla (the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) is expecting her second child in August 2020. The bad news is she won’t be able to conduct the first concerts of her 2020-2021 season. Photo : Mirga Grazinytė-Tyla © Frans Jansen
