The highlight of the Lille National Orchestra’s season returns with the Lille Piano(s) Festival, which will be held on 9, 10 and 11 June 2023 in five different venues (Nouveau Siècle, Lille Conservatory, Notre-Dame de la Treille Cathedral, etc.). The 2023 programme features electronic music and Chopin with artists as diverse as Molécule, Abdel Rahman […]
Every season the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden offers a fine Whitsun Festival. In its 25th year, it has chosen Richard Wagner and two prominent but unexpected conductors. Teodor Currentzis and Pablo Heras-Casado (with Alexandre Kantorow) will pay tribute to the master, while Sonya Yoncheva, Andreas Schager, Fazıl Say and Patricia Kopatchinskaja will be featured in other events. […]
The end of season event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris will indeed take place but without the lively conductor Lorenzo Viotti. Indeed, he has just withdrawn from the production of Puccini’s La Bohème directed by Eric Ruf which will take place from 15 to 24 June 2023. Lorenzo Passerini replaces as musical director […]
The Italian Council of Ministers and its far-right president Giorgia Meloni have passed a decree banning foreign superintendents of the country’s opera and symphony foundations from holding office past the age of 70, effective 10 June. In the firing line is Frenchman Stéphane Lissner, former director of La Scala in Milan and the Opéra national […]
In anticipation of the grand final to be held on Friday 23 February 2024 at the Opéra national de Paris, the Voix des Outre-Mer competition is awaiting its audience for the very first Ile-de-France final on 3 July 2023. The young artists of tomorrow can be discovered at the Ile-de-France Region’s premises in Saint-Ouen. […]
From 6 to 22 June 2023 in Milan, the world’s most famous opera house will be hosting a masterpiece for the very first time, even though it has been performed everywhere else! Surprising as it may seem, Teatro alla Scala has never before performed Rusalka, Dvořák’s masterpiece. This will be done with Emma Dante’s new […]
After a contemporary Romeo and Juliet at the Seine Musicale, born from the collaboration between Solenne du Hays Mascré and Benjamin Millepied (founder of the L.A. Dance Project), the duo is creating a new project called Paris Dance Project around transmission and sharing. This artistic and social approach is based on 4 fundamentals: dance everywhere […]
As it sometimes does for dance companies, the Opéra national de Paris is preparing to host Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu on 10 June 2023. Josep Pons, music director of the Liceu orchestra, will conduct a concert version of Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. After his Barone Scarpia in Tosca in 2022, the famous Welsh baritone […]
The Maison du Cygne in Six-Fours les Plages near Marseille in France will host the Nuits du Cygne from 27 May to 18 June 2023, the first part of the La Vague Classique season. Renaud Capuçon, Paul Zientara, Stéphanie Huang and Guillaume Bellom will open the new edition which includes 11 prestigious concerts. After another […]
