Hosted by soprano Natalie Dessay, the final of the great French Contest “Voix Nouvelles” who awarded the amazing Natalie, Karine Deshayes, Anne-Catherine Gillet or Stéphane Degout among others, will be hel on 10 February at Paris’ Opéra Comique and live on Facebook.
It is still time to party in Venezia where Lehár’s masterpiece Die lustige Witwe (or The Merry Widow or La vedova allegra) is performed from 2 February (promo) at gorgious Teatro La Fenice sateged by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Stefano Montanari.
A superb diptyc is announced at Brussel’s La Monnaie / De Munt from 6 March, Damiano Michieletto’s production of Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci is conducted by Evelino Pidò starring soprano Ainhoa Arteta as Nedda and Eva-Maria Westbroek & Alex Penda sharing the role of Santuzza.
The Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris opens 2018 with choreographer John Cranko’s masterpiece, Onegin on Tchaikovsky’s music is performed from 10 February at Palais Garnier. Un major event of the dance season, not to be missed…
Fantastic artists collaboration at NYC’s Carnegie Hall, on Feb. 6 the greatest liedersänger Matthias Goerne meets the new star of the piano, Daniil Trifonov for an exceptional Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich and Brahms recital.
From 21 January, a major event is scheduled at the Teatro dell’Opera with performances of rare Verdi’s opera I masnadieri conducted by maestro Roberto Abbado and directed by Massimo Popolizio.
Maria João Pires quits! It is confirmed and Lars Vogt replaces on 9 & 10 May at Philharmonie de Paris.
Party goes on at the Scala de Milano with Strauss’ Die Fledermaus performed from 19 January, Cornelius Meister conducts the Cornelius Obonya’s production.
Korean violinist Kyung-Wha Chung won’t be back at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on 23 March as scheduled, the artist must cancel her Paris concert.
New cast change at the Metropolitan Opera from January 22, after Marco Armiliato replacing Maestro James Levine, Verdi’s Il Trovatore is now performed by Jennifer Rowley as Leonora in all performances, she replaces Maria Agresta who is ill.
