Daniele Rustioni, current musical director of the Opéra National de Lyon, has just been appointed principal guest conductor of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York. Having already conducted operas in this legendary venue, as well as a concert at Carnegie Hall with the Met Orchestra, he will take up his new role starting in […]
This production will undoubtedly stand as one of the most memorable of the Michel Franck era. For his final season as general and artistic director of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, he has made the excellent decision to revive Dialogues des Carmélites in Olivier Py’s unforgettable staging, running from December 4 to 12, 2024. Poulenc’s masterpiece […]
The curse has struck again on the opera whose name superstitious Italians never utter. Even though it remains the highlight of the international season, Verdi’s La forza del destino, which opens La Scala in Milan on December 7, 2024, has just lost one of its headliners. Jonas Kaufmann, the celebrated tenor, has announced that family […]
A rising star in the world of opera, soprano Golda Schultz returns to the Paris Opera, this time in a leading role. After performing as Micaëla at Bastille in 2023, she will make her debut at the Palais Garnier as Ann Trulove in The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky, running from November 30 to December 23, […]
True to its mission of programming prestigious works never before performed at the Opéra royal de Liège, Stefano Pace, the director of the Belgian institution, is addressing an incredible oversight. From January 28 to February 8, 2025, the very first performances of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde will be staged in Liège. The masterpiece of German […]
Founded in 2021, the Opera a Palazzo troupe continues to light up the evenings of Parisian museums and palaces. Since fall 2024, the artists have returned to the salons of the Musée Jacquemart-André, which serve as a natural backdrop for an exceptionally lifelike production of La Traviata. Buoyed by success, a new title is now […]
On its website, our colleagues at BBC Music Magazine published a ranking of the 30 greatest conductors of all time, selected by their peers. In response to the question, “Which maestros have inspired you?”, a hundred of today’s top conductors overwhelmingly named Carlos Kleiber. Only two women appear in this ranking, and — cocorico! — […]
“Habemus distributionem!” For once, unusually so early in the season, the Verona Arena Festival has unveiled the casts of the five operas scheduled this summer (Aida, Carmen, Nabucco, Rigoletto, and La Traviata). From June 13 to September 6, 2025, on one of the world’s largest opera stages, a parade of superstars is expected. In addition […]
The celebrated Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi continues her streak of triumphs. Following a fiery performance as Maddalena di Coigny in Andrea Chénier by Giordano in Paris and Lyon, she will take on the role of Aida, Verdi’s famed Ethiopian slave, in London in a production directed by Robert Carsen (from January 28 to February 12, […]
Their December 2022 visit to Paris brought spectators at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to tears. This winter, the ballet and orchestra of the National Opera of Ukraine are returning for 17 exceptional performances from December 21, 2024, to January 5, 2025, on the Avenue Montaigne stage. Despite enduring extremely difficult living and working conditions for […]
