Laurent Pelly‘s superb production thrilled audiences at the Opéra Comique in Paris, and now Lakmé, Léo Delibes’s absolute masterpiece, is on the bill at the Opéra de Nice for three exceptional performances on 29 September, 1 and 3 October 2023 with a new cast. Kathryn Lewek, who made a big impression last season in Donizetti’s […]
After the choices of his predecessor (who died prematurely) and the revivals after Covid, Stefano Pace, the enlightened director of the Opéra royal de Liège, inaugurates his first full programme with a masterpiece by Mozart from his youth. Idomeneo opens the series of eight new productions scheduled for this 2023-2024 season. The excellent conductor Fabio […]
The Konzert-Direktion Hans Adler is the perfect architect of a series of concerts in the Bavarian capital. Thanks to the Konzert-Direktion, Munich can boast some of the biggest stars in classical music, including the Freiburger Barockorchester (5 October 2023), Emmanuel Pahud and Antonello Manacorda (2 November), Teodor Currentzis (14 November), Hilary Hahn (20 November) and […]
Are the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Philharmonie, the French capital’s two great symphony concert halls, fighting it out in 2023? The line-up on both sides is very strong, with, Porte de Pantin, the Berliner Philharmoniker led by Kirill Petrenko (2 September), the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Klaus Mäkelä (6 and 7 September) and […]
The Music & Opera Guide 2023-2024 is the bible for music lovers, the only publication to offer the full programme of over 500 institutions worldwide. The 27th edition contains the full programmes of 574 (a record!) orchestras, opera houses, concert and recital organisers, venues and all the details of opera, concert, recital and ballet performances. […]
The scandal of the summer will have allowed a new talent to blossom. After John Eliot Gardiner slapped one of the artists in the cast of Berlioz’s Les Troyens at La Côte-Saint-André, the great anticipated event of the season turned into a sordid news item. John Eliot Gardiner was undoubtedly one of the greatest Berlioz […]
The great conductor Riccardo Chailly is fulfilling his wish to take La Scala’s music outside its home in Milan. Under his direction, the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala will perform their finest repertoire, the choruses and overtures from Verdi’s operas, on tour from 31 August to 12 September 2023 in Verona, Grafenegg, Vienna, […]
A last-minute change of venue did not prevent the Voix des Outre-mer Ile-de-France final (originally scheduled to take place at the Ile-de-France region headquarters in Saint-Ouen) from taking place. As the Ile-de-France regional executive was forced to cancel all the events scheduled for the evening of 3 July 2023, the candidates, members of the jury […]
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Kaija Saariaho on 2 June 2023. The great Finnish composer died this weekend in Paris after a long illness. She left a prolific body of work that made her one of the best-known figures in contemporary classical music. Her compositions, in a recognisable […]
