In 2020, Covid almost overshadowed the appointment of Esa-Pekka Salonen as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony. For his very first tour, the great conductor has chosen three European institutions with which he has strong ties. The Paris Philharmonie (9 to 12 March 2023), the Luxembourg Philharmonie (13 March) and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie will […]
On Friday 27 January 2023, the Salle Gaveau in Paris welcomes Lionel Meunier and his famous Ensemble Vox Luminis to perform Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur in a concert version. The English masterpiece has already been recorded by Meunier and his troupe (published by Alpha Classics in 2018), in which they offer a new expanded orchestration […]
In London, Sweeney Todd is a well-known barber on Fleet Street and yet it is the Barbiere di Siviglia that is most often visited. In Bow Street, at the Royal Opera House, from 2 February to 6 March 2023, Andrzej Filończyk performs as Rossini’s hero accomplice Count Almaviva, the great Rossinian tenor Lawrence Brownlee, who […]
While Maestro Long Yu was expected with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra at the Opéra Comique from 24 April to 4 May 2023 to conduct Bizet’s Carmen (in the hall where the opera was first performed), the Covid, still too virulent in China, prevented them from coming to Paris. Love being a rebellious and fickle bird, […]
The great baroque conductor Christophe Rousset, who is very much on top of his game at the head of his Talens Lyriques, is conducting a complete set of Schubert’s symphonies at the Théâtre du Châtelet in three concerts, on 27 January 2023 (Symphonies Nos. 2, 4 & 6), 29 January (Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 & […]
A regular guest of the Teatro Regio di Torino, the conductor Riccardo Frizza will conduct the Holocaust Memorial Day Concert on 27 January 2023 in Turin. In this regard, he states: “While remembrance of what happened is a universally shared legacy that is marked every year on this memorial day, I personally feel the need […]
Renowned conductor Nathalie Stutzmann leads the prestigious New York Philharmonic from 22 to 24 February 2023 at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall in New York, in a Wagner, Prokofiev and Dvorák programme with Alisa Weilerstein. Since Marin Alsop‘s departure from Baltimore, Nathalie Stutzmann, who has just been appointed to lead the Atlanta Symphony […]
His state of health had prevented him from conducting since October 2022, but his return to the Berlin stage for the New Year’s Eve concerts gave reason to hope. Unfortunately, Daniel Barenboim, the legendary conductor and pianist, has just officially announced his retirement. The 80-year-old Music Director of the great German institution since 1992 will […]
The great violinist Isabelle Faust has joined the English Baroque Soloists to perform Mozart‘s Symphony Concertante in E flat major with Antoine Tamestit and Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting. Lucky audiences will travel to London, Budapest or Munich on 16 January 2023, the last date of a concluding European tour. Your tickets to see […]
