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 […]
French conductor François-Xavier Roth’s contract as Principal Conductor of the Gürzenich-Orchester and Music Director of Köln City has been extended to 2022.
Is Damiano Michieletto the best director of the Teatro La Fenice de Venice? For the 2018/2019 season opening of the most prestigious and gorgeous Italian Opera (and certainly in all other the world), Michieletto is staging a new production of Verdi’s Macbeth. It is his ninth production at La Fenice in Venice after Gounod’s Roméo […]
Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska makes her debut as Leonora from Verdi’s Il Trovatore in Staatsoper Berlin on the 27th of October 2018 in Philipp Stölzl’s production.
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 !
After the fantastic performances of Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots at the Opéra national de Paris, soprano Lisette Oropesa is jumping to another new role as Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore at Opéra Bastille, from October 25. In the hit production by Laurent Pelly, she performs with tenor Vittorio Grigòlo as Nemorino. After her huge success as […]
On 20 october 2018, the Aix-en-Provence’s Grand Théâtre de Provence opens his symphonic season with Boris Berezovsky and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Poga to perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Tchaïkovski’s Pathetic.
In November at Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts it’s Christmas before Christmas. Superstars are visiting like conductor Valery Gergiev (on 18) to perform Stravinsky and Tchaïkovsky. Two days later, (on 20), La Bartoli, the fantastic Cecila Bartoli performs aria by her dear Vivaldi. The day after, great pianist Arcadi Volodos performs Schubert, Rachmaninov and Scriabin. And […]
