The white smoke was eagerly awaited and it is finally Olivier Py who has been appointed Director of the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. A great theatre and opera director, actor, author, director of the Théâtre national de l’Odéon from 2007 to 2012 and of the Festival d’Avignon from 2013 to 2022, Olivier Py is […]
While the Bozar in Brussels opens the ball of the Rachmaninov 2023 festivities (on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth), the Opernhaus Zürich and the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich are joining forces for a concert cycle that begins on 12 February 2023, at the Opera House. The Piano Concerto No. 3 will be performed […]
The long-confined city of Sydney appointed the new Principal Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2020-2021, but Simone Young (the first woman to hold the post) was not able to lead her orchestra until July 2022, when the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall reopened. The upcoming 2023 season will therefore be her first full […]
As 2023 is a Rachmaninoff year (150 years since his birth), Bozar in Brussels is opening the ball with a Rachmaninoff Festival to be held from 2 to 5 February 2023. The four piano concertos of the virtuoso composer, his chamber music and his moving Vespers will be performed by the Belgian National Orchestra, the […]
After having cancelled his appearance at the Chorégies d’Orange last summer, at the Arena of Verona and after his defection in La Gioconda at La Scala in Milan, the Italian tenor Fabio Sartori, unavailable, will not be on the stage of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome where he was supposed to perform as Radames either. […]
The Grands Interprètes series is spoiling its audiences in Toulouse by inviting some big names in April 2023. On 4 April, the Halle aux Grains welcomes the prestigious Budapest Festival Orchestra and its legendary conductor Iván Fischer for a Dohnányi, Strauss and Bartók concert with the star violinist Renaud Capuçon. Fans should not miss the […]
Renowned for its interpretations of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies (by Joseph Keilberth or recently Jonhatan Nott), the Bamberger Symphoniker is getting ready to host the seventh edition of the prestigious international competition for young conductors under 35 years old. Like the previous winners Gustavo Dudamel and Lahav Shani, the young conductors will compete for the first […]
New productions punctuate the 2022-2023 season of the Deutsche Oper Berlin with some highly anticipated operas. From 18 March 2023, Richard Strauss’s beautiful Arabella will be portrayed by Rachel Willis-Sørensen, the rising star of the sopranos. Donald Runnicles, the German institution’s artistic director, is conducting the production by Tobias Kratzer, who is back after his […]
The legendary baritone Leo Nucci, turned to a stage director when he was 77, will see his production of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera revived at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, from 27 January to 5 February 2023. Impossible loves, betrayals, plots, magic potions and inexorable destiny will be sung on stage by a […]
