Great Conductor : Conductor Bernard Haitink who is about to celebrate his 90th birthday on 9th March 2019 planes not to retire but to take a complete sabbatical from all conducting during the 2019-2020 season. Enjoy your sabbatical Maestro and please, come back in perfect condition!
Début: Great tenor Piotr Beczala had not yet performed the role of Mario Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca. He will perform as Mario for the first time on February 7, 2019 at the Wiener Staatsoper for his international debut with dream partners (Sondra Radvanovsky and Thomas Hampson). With such a distribution, the show of course is […]
Mozart in Madrid: from February 19, 2019, Madrid’s Teatro Real presents Robert Carsen’s new production. In co-production with the Canadian Opera Company of Toronto and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Mozart’s Idomeneo is directed in Madrid by Ivor Bolton with double cast such as Eric Cutler and Jeremy Ovenden as Idomeneo and surprisingly, a tenor, […]
New discovery: The Italian composer Giovanni Legrenzi is the about to be discovered in France thanks to Christophe Rousset and his Talens Lyriques. Less known than Monteverdi or Cavalli, he was probably, Caldara and Vivaldi’s teacher. His opera The divisione del mondo created for the carnival of Venice in 1675 is staged by the Dutch […]
A masterpiece: The Royal Opera House of Covent Garden in London performs Deborah Warner’s production of Britten’s Billy Budd. This production premiered at Madrid’s Teatro Real has received an unanimous praise from the press as the most perfect success of the season. The same outstanding cast iso on stage with brilliant Jacques Imbrailo, Toby Spence […]
A new Cheffe to follow closely, the young Finnish Conductor Dalia Stasevska has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. By giving this direction to a woman, the orchestra follow the movement of equality in classical music and finally allows to appreciate the diversity of talents without prejudice. For a long time […]
Extravaganza: Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, extravagant opera is performed at the Zürich Opera from February 3rd, 2019. The new production from the famous Tatjana Gürbaca is conducted by the expert Tito Ceccherini. A wind of madness is blowing on Zurich!
Baroque Star: Before the Aix Festival, Raphaël Pichon and his ensemble Pygmalion perform at the Château de Versailles a varied and thrilling programme. On 9 & 10 February 2019 at the Chapelle Royale, he conducts the famous Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine starring Lea Desandre, Eva Zaïcik and Lucile Richardot. The singers performs also on […]
Gershwin in Vienna: A new production is expected at the Vienna’s Volksoper. Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess is premiered on February 10, 2019. Gershwin’s masterpiece, directed by Joseph R. Olefirowicz, will be performed by Melba Ramos (Bess), Morris Robinson (Porgy), Lester Lynch (Crown) and Ray M. Wade Jr. (Sportin ‘Life). Rebecca Nelsen as Clara sings the […]
The winners of the Paris Opera Competition 2019 further to the finale held at the Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on Friday 18 January 2019 are French soprano Mélissa Petit, third prize, French baritone Jérôme Boutillier, second prize and Russian baritone Ilya Kutyukhin who wins both first prize and the public prize. All the young singers […]
