The Mozarteumorchester Salzburg (the Mozart Foundation’s orchestra founded in 1841 by Constance Mozart, the divine composer’s wife) is getting a new music director. From the 2024-25 season, the Spanish conductor Roberto González-Monjas will preside over the destiny of the Austrian orchestra. A former student of the Mozarteum University, he admits to an interest in and […]
What if the best Parsifal of the season was Viennese? Wagner‘s opera will be performed at the prestigious Vienna State Opera from 6 to 16 April 2023, during Easter week as tradition demands. The sacred stage festival is conduted by Philippe Jordan, who has assembled a prestigious cast with Klaus Florian Vogt succeeding Jonas Kaufmann […]
The Aix premiere made a lot of noise, since Innocence, Kaija Saariaho‘s new opera has been heard in Amsterdam and Helsinki. Before San Francisco where it is scheduled for June 2024, Simon Stone’s production will be performed at Covent Garden at the Royal Opera House in London from April 17 to May 4, 2023 under […]
The Richard-Strauss-Tage (Richard Strauss Days Festival) will be held in Dresden from 2 to 16 April 2023, in the hall where many of his creations were performed, the Semperoper. Concerts and operas are on the programme, but Christian Thielemann, the Staatskapelle’s principal conductor, will not be attending for health reasons. Der Rosenkavalier is now conducted […]
Maria Callas was born Anna Maria Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulou on 2 December 1923 in New York but it was in Athens that she began her incredible career. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her birth, the Greek National Opera pays tribute to her with a wonderful production of Cherubini’s Medea (directed by David […]
Lars Von Trier’s movie made a lasting impression on the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 and then on audiences around the world. Breaking the Waves has since become an opera with music by Missy Mazzoli and a libretto by Royce Vavrek. Premiered in September 2016 at Opera Philadelphia, the production received the 2017 International Opera […]
In April, May and June 2023, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia will welcome no fewer than four artists who will be making their debut with one of Italy’s most prominent orchestras. On 4, 5 and 6 May, the German conductor Markus Stenz, who has conducted all over the world, will lead the Roman […]
As the 2023-2024 season of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris has just been unveiled, the Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli seems to be taking the lion’s share of the spotlight by interpreting three emblematic roles of the great Baroque repertoire. In May 2023, he will be Orlando in Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso (with Jean-Christophe Spinosi […]
After Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout, Karine Deshayes or Anne-Catherine Gillet, who will be the new winner of Voix Nouvelles 2023? The competition is entering its final phase with the semi-finals to be held at the Opéra de Massy on 28 and 29 June 2023. With the sponsorship of Agnès Jaoui, the grand national final will […]
