Staged by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq, Auber’s Le Domino Noir performed at the Lièges’ Opéra Royal de Wallonie has been received with enthousiasm. Coproducted with the Paris’ Opéra-Comique, the opera is performed in Paris from 26 March. Tickets are yet available for this « must seen » production…
For the first time in January, tenor Charles Castronovo performed as Don José in Bizet’s Carmen at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where he will be back from 30 May 2018 with mezzo Clémentine Margaine as Carmen.
Famous Maestro Zubin Mehta still in convalescence is forced to postpone the concert initially scheduled on March 7th at Teatro Massimo of Palermo.
On March 30, 2018, two remarkable Saint John Passion will be performed on Good Friday. The best known Bach’s Johannes-Passion opens the first weekend of the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, starring Raphael Pichon and his ensemble Pygmalion. Another great conductor, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon offers to discover Gaetano Venziano’s Passio per il Venerdi Santo, at the Chapelle […]
A World Premier is always a big event even more in a prestigious Opera House such as the Wiener Staatsoper, Gottfried von Einem’s Dantons Tod conducted by Susanna Mälkki and directed by Josef Ernst Köpplingerwill be premiered on 24 March 2018.
At London’s Royal Opera House from 7–24 March Janáček’s From the House of the Dead will be premiered in a new production directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski.
The return of great baritone Bryn Terfel is expected at Zurich Opera in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer in Andreas Homoki production, from 18 March.
The London’s Barbican Center brigthly celebrates the International Women’s Day on 8 March 2018, with the Insula Orchestra conducted by Laurence Equilbey to perform Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto starring Alexandra Conunova, Natalie Clein and Alice Sara Ott.
The great Catalan artist Jordi Savall offers to discover an unknown Bach on 26 March at the Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles with a recreation of the Saint Mark Passion.
From 23 March, Australian Autumn welcomes a new open air production outside the walls, from the other side of the bay, Puccini’s La Bohème staged by Andy Morton is performed on Sydney Harbour Mrs Macquaries Point facing the famous Sydney Opera and Harbour Bridge, like a theatre set !
