While Martina Franca mourns the death of the President of the Paolo Grassi Foundation (organiser of the Festival della Valle d’Itria), Berlin has chosen Aviel Cahn, the current General Director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, to lead the Berlin Deutsche Oper from the 2026-2027 season. Dubai Opera also has a new General Director in […]
After performing the premiere of an Aucoin, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky and Verdi concert at Carnegie Hall in New York (22 June 2023), Yannick Nézet-Séguin is taking his orchestra to Europe. The Met Orchestra is expected to perform on 27 June 2023 at the Philharmonie de Paris and on 2 July at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with soprano […]
You have to wait two more days to acquire a rare album devoted to French women composers thanks to the Palazzetto Bru Zane, which is publishing a boxed set of 8 discs built around their works that have been ignored for too long. Today (International Women’s Rights Day), we should remember that even the French […]
While he has just published a book of interviews with Antoine Boulay (Marc Minkowski – Chef d’orchestre ou centaure, Séguier edition), while he is coming out of a triumphant tour of Handel’s Alcina and while he is expected to conduct Massenet’s Manon in April 2023 at the Liceu, Marc Minkowski has had a fall, not […]
From 17 March to 4 April 2023, the Opéra de Lyon is holding its festival on the theme of “Crossing the gates” with three operas on the bill. With Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Bluthaus (The House of Crime) by Haas and Monteverdi. It will be a question of thresholds to be […]
Brilliant winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth Competition, pianist Jonathan Fournel is still too discreetly scheduled in the major Parisian venues. The Philharmonie de Paris is now making up for this anomaly by inviting him and the Orchestre national d’Ile de France, conducted by Lio Kuokman, on Wednesday 19 April 2023 for a second Brahms […]
The Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet is rocking the Parisian programme with Coups de Roulis by André Messager. From 10 to 19 March 2023, the Frivolités Parisiennes, specialists in the French light opera repertoire, will revive the composer’s last work after the success of their production of Maurice Yvain’s Là-Haut! Your tickets for Coups de Roulis […]
Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who recently renewed his contract with the Philadelphia Orchestra, has his work cut out for him. The artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera is preparing to conduct the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s opera Champion from 10 April 2023 (after the success of Fire Shut Up in My Bones). Since 26 February […]
One of the most photographed façades in the world will be discreet until the end of 2024. The famous Palais Garnier in Paris, built in 1875 and classified as a historic monument since 1923, is to have its main façade restored. Cleaning, depollution, replacement of damaged elements, restoration of gilding, sculptural elements and sculptures, anti-graffiti […]
