While she is a great success every night at the Opéra Bastille as Ophelia (alongside Ludovic Tézier’s Hamlet until 30 March 2023), while she completed a half-marathon last week at the Stade de France and while she has just been named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Lisette Oropesa is continuing her beautiful […]
The director Ted Huffman is flying from success to success. After his acclaimed Monteverdi in Aix-en-Provence last summer, his new production is eagerly awaited at the Oper Zürich, especially as it is a Shakespearean drama. From 10 April to 18 May 2023, Charles Gounod‘s masterpiece Romeo and Juliet will be conducted by Roberto Forés Veses […]
On Monday 17 April 2023, the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse will host a recital by a great lady of the piano. Maria João Pires was only 4 years old when she gave her first concert. Since then, she has lit up the great stages of the world, performing with the greatest. After deciding to […]
The talented conductor Omer Meir Wellber has been appointed as General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and its orchestra, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg. He succeeds Kent Nagano and will take up his new post from autumn 2025 while retaining his position as Music Director of the Volksoper Wien in Austria until the end […]
The Teatro alla Scala is performing for the second time at the Chorégies d’Orange. After a major concert with Maestro Riccardo Chailly last season, it is now the turn of the ballet company, directed since 2020 by Manuel Legris, to perform on the vast stage of the impressive ancient theatre. On 15 July 2023, La […]
Joyce DiDonato was due to take on the role of Carmen in Strasbourg, but will not be taking part in the production. Elena Maximova is replacing her. Other Carmens are expected in France in the near future, such as Marie-Nicole Lemieux at the Chorégies d’Orange or, closer, the flamboyant Gaëlle Arquez, who will be on […]
And three! The ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris has just acquired a third star by naming Guillaume Diop as étoile after a performance of Giselle in Seoul on Saturday 11 March 2023. This distinction follows shortly after those of Hannah O’Neill and Marc Moreau during the performance of Balanchine at the Palais Garnier. The […]
The Opéra de Paris is breaking new ground by hosting Nixon in China, the first opera by John Adams to enter the repertoire. The production will be performed at the Opéra Bastille from 25 March to 16 April 2023 and is directed by Valentina Carrasco in her first staging at the Opéra national de Paris. […]
On May 6, 2023, all the world’s television stations will broadcast the crowning of the new king of the United Kingdom. It is said at Buckingham Palace that the future Charles III would have chosen himself the music for this ceremony which will take place at Westminster Abbey. Byrd, Elgar and Handel are on the […]
