After Le Timbre d’Argent, a new Camille Saint-Saëns Opera is about to be rediscover, on 24 & 26 November 2017 at Geneva’s Opéra des Nations, Saint-Saëns’s Ascanio is conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire starring Bernard Richter, Karina Gauvin, Ève-Maud Hubeaux and Jean-François Lapointe.
A role debut for American soprano Ailyn Pérez who performs as Thaïs with Gerald Finley as Athanaël in Massenet’s opera directed by John Cox and conducted by Emmanuel Villaume at the Metropolitan Opera from November 11.
L’Arlésienne & Carmen, Roland Petit’s masterpiece are performed by the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon at Lyon’s Opéra from 18 to 24 November.
Great artist Daniel Barenboim will be in Toulouse at the Halle aux grains on 15 January 2018 to perform a all-Debussy piano recital, not to be missed !
As Leokadja Begbick, soprano Karita Mattila performs from 5 November at Oper Zürich, in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny directed Sebastian Baumgarten and conducted by Fabio Luisi co-starring Annette Dasch, Christopher Purves and Christopher Ventris.
Great violinist Isabelle Faust joins Robin Ticciati an the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin on 10 & 11 November at Berlin Philharmonie to perform Robert Schumann’s concerto.
A new production of Puccini’s Il Trittico at the Bayerische Staatsoper from 17 December will be conducted by Kirill Petrenko and staged by Lotte de Beer starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Ermonela Jaho and Ambrogio Maestri.
Superb cast to tour around Europe and on 7 november 2017, Grande salle Pierre Boulez at Paris’ Philharmonie, Beethoven’s very first opera Leonore, draft of Fidelio is conducted by René Jacobs starring Marlis Petersen as Leonore and Maximilian Schmitt as Florestan.
Dates to be booked at London’s Royal Opera House 06, 27 February, 8, 12 & 16 Mars 2018, and why? Just because Gaëlle Arquez performs as Carmen!
In the perfect acoustic of the Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on 18 November, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest directed his chief conductor Marc Albrecht performs Brahms Symphony No. 1 and famous Sibelius’ violin concerto with Simone Lamsma, the real star of Dutch violin.
