Long before Fort-de-France, the charming city of Saint-Pierre in Martinique was the great capital of culture with its theater, a magnificent building that was designed on the same plans as the one in Bordeaux. In 1902, the eruption of Mount Pelee completely devastated the city, which retains the ruins as a trace of its glorious […]
December 7, the day of St. Ambrose, the patron saint of the city of Milano, is the season opening date of the temple of opera, La Scala in Milan. For 2022-2023, Dominique Meyer, Intendant and Riccardo Chailly, Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of La Scala, have chosen the masterpiece of Russian opera, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. […]
The movie MAESTRO(S), a film by Bruno Chiche will be out on 7 December 2023 starring Yvan Attal and Pierre Arditi as two conductors, Miou-Miou, Nils Othenin-Girard and Pascale Arbillot. Caroline Anglade is also part of the cast, coached by Anne Gravoin for her role as a violinist. Yvan Attal has worked with conductors Dominique Trottein to prepare […]
Two halls with perfect acoustic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Philharmonie de Paris have just signed a partnership agreement built around the Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä. The teams of the current music director of the Orchestre de Paris and soon to be principal conductor of the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam will develop several projects such as […]
The International Opera Awards 2022, founded in 2013 by Harry Hyman, a British businessman, and John Allison, editor of the British magazine Opera, were presented earlier this week at the Teatro Real in Madrid, outside the UK for the first time in their history. Sabine Devieilhe and Stéphane Degout were chosen as Best Singers of […]
After Offenbach’s La Périchole, a superb success, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is already announcing an equally interesting stage production. From 10 to 19 March 2023, a double bill will see Sabine Devieilhe as Stravinsky’s Nightingale and as Thérèse-Tirésias in Poulenc‘s rare yet succulent Mamelles de Tirésias. With Olivier Py as director and François-Xavier Roth as […]
The end of year celebrations will be particularly royal at the Château de Versailles with shows in all the spaces of the historic site. While the Galerie des glaces will host a dramatised tour “The King’s Journey”, the Royal Chapel will host a series of sacred music concerts from 11 to 18 December 2022. At […]
After several months of discussions between the danseur étoile François Alu and the Opera National de Paris about his professional aspirations and his career as an artist, the departure of the danseur étoile has been announced. In full agreement with the Opera National de Paris management, François Alu will soon be leaving the Ballet de […]
The Opéra Comique, the Parisian venue with the most original programme in the French capital, is innovating once again by presenting Little Shop of Horrors (La Petite Boutique des horreurs). Alan Menken and Howard Ashman‘s hit musical, which will be on show for the holidays from 10 to 25 December 2022, once again brings together […]
The big event of the Paris season arrives at the Opéra Bastille. From 12 to 30 December 2022, the Opéra national de Paris will revive Jean-Claude Auvray’s elegant production of Verdi‘s La forza del destino to serve as the backdrop for a luxurious cast. Two Annas share the role of Donna Leonora, Anna Netrebko, who […]
