The curse has struck again on the opera whose name superstitious Italians never utter. Even though it remains the highlight of the international season, Verdi’s La forza del destino, which opens La Scala in Milan on December 7, 2024, has just lost one of its headliners. Jonas Kaufmann, the celebrated tenor, has announced that family […]
The 2024-2025 season at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is special for many reasons. It marks the final season curated by Michel Franck, the vibrant artistic director who has been at the helm since 2010. To celebrate, he has prepared a dazzling lineup that will delight all music lovers. Some events are bound to be highly […]
Alexander Neef, director of the Paris National Opera, has crafted a 2024-2025 season that now defines his artistic policy. Between new creations, heritage works, and major revivals, music lovers can now rejoice in finding the great institution that everyone admires, especially with José Martínez, the impeccable director of dance. With his international stature, he offers […]
Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the temple of opera and the most famous opera house in the world along with the Palais Garnier, has just been given new spaces. As part of the overall reorganisation project, which began in the 2000s with the restoration and extension of the eighteenth-century hall, a new tower has just been […]
For three seasons now in Paris, the Opera a Palazzo troupe has been bringing intense emotions to its audiences, welcoming them to the most beautiful venues in the capital. After the Hôtel Dosne-Thiers in the Nouvelle Athènes and the Musée Jacquemart-André, it is now the doors of the Hôtel de La Monnaie, on the Quai […]
From 6 to 29 November 2023, the Opéra Bastille once again welcomes the aesthetic universe of Bob Wilson with his production of Puccini’s Turandot. For the occasion, two sopranos were to alternate on stage. While Tamara Wilson will make her Paris Opéra debut before playing Beatrice di Tenda in Bellini’s opera on the same stage […]
María de Buenos Aires, Ástor Piazzolla‘s tango opera combining song, theatre and dance, is on at the Grand Théâtre de Genève from 27 October to 5 November 2023, directed by Ticino-born Daniele Finzi Pasca. Soprano Raquel Camarinha performs as Maria opposite Inés Cuello, a great tango voice, in the male role of Payador. The musical […]
Rusalka, Dvořák‘s superb but rarely performed masterpiece, is the title chosen for the second edition of Opéras au Sud, the regional initiative for opera production. Thanks to a co-production with Arsud, the Opéras de Marseille, Nice, Toulon and with the support of the City of Avignon, Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil‘s production will premiere on […]
After the Paris premiere of the violin concerto entitled “Le sommeil a pris ton empreinte”, Berlin is preparing to welcome the work by French composer Camille Pépin for the very first time. Conductor Robin Ticciati leads the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the German premiere on 15 October 2023 at the Philharmonie with, as in Paris, […]
While the competition is in full swing at the Concours Voix Nouvelles, which has revealed Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout, Karine Deshayes, Anne Catherine Gillet, Eva Zaicik, etc., one candidate has already made a name for herself by winning first prize in another competition. Lauranne Oliva, a 23-year-old French soprano, has just won first prize and […]
