While major highlights have already been announced (such as Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila starring Anita Rachvelishvili), the magnificent Teatro San Carlo in Naples will close its doors from January to March 2023 for renovation, forcing the orchestra, chorus and corps de ballet to move. During the three months of work in one of Italy’s most […]
The renowned and prestigious Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia opens its 2022-23 season with, for once, an opera in concert version. On 18, 20 and 22 October 2022, the furious music of Elektra, Richard Strauss’ stunning opera, will resound in the Sala Santa Cecilia of the Parco della Musica. Music director Antonio Pappano‘s cast […]
The Champs-Elysées will welcome Orpheus and Eurydice as it should, but from 21 September to 1 October 2022, this is not mythology! The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées reprises Robert Carsen’s magnificent production of Gluck’s opera to offer the superb Jakub Józef Orliński the iconic and much-anticipated role of Orfeo. With his golden voice and magazine cover […]
From 11th to 29th of September 2022, La Monnaie in Brussels is back in the game with Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, directed by David Marton, who had been waiting for its premiere for two years. In addition to the engaging cast (Dmitry Golovnin, Anna Nechaeva, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Jacques Imbrailo, Laurent Naouri…), the trump […]
The Philharmonie de Paris is back with a bang, with a line-up of great conductors. On the 6th and 7th of September 2020, Yannick Nézet-Séguin opens the ball with the Philadelphia Orchestra (and a fine programme with, in particular, the soprano Angel Blue, the revelation of Gounod’s Faust at Bastille). On the 8th and 9th, […]
The climate situation is also an issue for the world of culture. The prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy has unveiled a new strategy to reduce its carbon footprint, which amounted to 82 kg of CO2 per spectator in 2019. Christoph Müller, the artistic director, has set his 2023-2025 programme under the sign of change with […]
While the new production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is a success, another production by Damiano Michieletto will soon be on the bill. Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, an absolute masterpiece of the buffa genre, is on at the Opéra Bastille from 30 May to 19 June 2022. The cast, conducted […]
While the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris has just announced its new 2022-2023 season, a press release announces the very first change and it is a happy news! She was scheduled to perform Offenbach’s La Périchole, directed by Marc Minkowski and staged by Laurent Pelly, from 13 November 2022 but Marianne Crebassa is expecting a […]
With bookings already in full swing, the Chorégies d’Orange is looking forward to lyrical and symphonic productions with some changes. Following the sad death of Nicholas Angelich, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard has agreed to perform Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto No. 5 alongside Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (7/7). Fabio Sartori has given up […]
While the new production of Offenbach’s La Périchole is delighting such a large audience that the performances are almost sold out, the Opéra Comique is hosting on Saturday 11 June 2022 at 8pm, the concert version of another opera no less delightful. Phryné, the only “comic” opera by Camille Saint-Saëns and one of his most […]
