From 9 to 23 December 2018, the blood floods the Zurich Opera stage thanks to Steven Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. As the monstrous Barber, incredible baritone Bryn Terfel will terrify the audience with his fellow mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager as Mrs. Lovett. Andreas Homoki directs and David Charles Abbell conducts.
New Year’s Eve : Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko will spend the New Year’s Eve in New York on Metropolitan Opera’s stage where she performs as Adriana Lecouvreur. On stage with her, a brilliant cast reminds the brilliant hours of the Met with Piotr Beczala, Anita Rachvelishvili and Ambrogio Maestri. David McVicar’s beautiful production is conducted […]
This is the hit of the end of Paris’ season. At the gorgeous Opéra Comique from 17 December 2018, Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet conducted by Louis Langrée has the best cast ever starring superlative bariton Stéphane Degout as Hamlet and soprano Sabine Devieilhe the new Ophélie and her debut as Shakespeare heroine! Few tickets are still […]
After the Chorégies d’Orange and the Opéra de Lyon in France, now the New York Metropolitan Opera performs Boito’s Mefistofele (from 8 November 2018). The cast is composed by brilliant Michael Fabiano facing vilain Christian Van Horn and sweet Angela Meade as the Goethe heros. Robert Carsen’s production is conducted by Carlo Rizzi and Joseph […]
From 9 to 11 November 2018, the Opéra de Lyon welcomes dance performances and pays tribute to great choreographer Merce Cunningham, as part of the 2019 celebration to Honor the 100th Anniversary of his birth. The Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon performs Summerspace and Exchange, two Cunningham’s masterpieces with the quintessence of style of this […]
A masterpiece of the opera and also a masterpiece production is performed at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Strauss’s Elektra directed by genious Patrice Chéreau returns from November 4 to 29, 2018 in the Temple of the Opera. Christoph von Dohnányi conduts the Orchestra of la Scala starring Waltraud Meier as the terrifying Klytämnestra.
On 4 november 2018, at the Opernhaus Zurich Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte will be premiered with a bitter taste. It is so unusual for a Theater director to be under house arrest. For more than a year, Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been kept in Moscow. Thanks to the distance work accomplished with his co-director […]
Donizetti’s comedy La Fille du Régiment will be performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera from February 7 with a brilliant cast starring Pretty Yende in the role of Marie, Javier Camarena as Tonio and Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro sharing the role of Sergeant. Amrerican actress Kathleen Turner join the cast to perfom the non-singing […]
On 13 November, New York’s Carnegie Hall is welcoming the first concert of a serie starring conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra with a Wagner, Bates and Respighi programme and Chausson’s superbe Poème de l’amour et de la mer performed by great mezzo Joyce DiDonato.
The happy few who attended the dress rehearsal of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at Paris’ Opéra-Comique are really enthousiastic. Apparently, this production is a must, one of the most fantastic production ever of the masterpiece. Some tickets are still available… Don’t miss it !
