2024 is a year of celebration with the 100th anniversary of Puccini’s death, but the great Italian composer cannot make us forget his compatriot Ferruccio Busoni, who died the same year. Although he spent most of his career in Austria and Germany, it is only natural that the Berlin Philharmonie should be the venue for […]
What better gift than to spend Valentine’s Day in the company of Marina Viotti? In Aix-en-Provence, the Grand Théâtre de Provence has invited the mezzo to perform with the Cercle de l’Harmonie conducted by Jérémie Rhorer on 14 February 2024 in a recital entitled ‘Amor, Furor‘. The special Valentine’s Day programme features arias from Verdi […]
The brilliant choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has added another string to his bow by also directing opera. His arrival at the helm of the Grand Théâtre de Genève ballet in 2022 naturally led him to propose a new production in which all the performing arts will be brought together. From 21 February to 2 March […]
Elena Stikhina (one of the 2016 winners of the Operalia Competition) continues her faultless career, notably as a special guest of the Wiener Staatsoper, a major international stage. The Russian soprano will be performing as Tosca on 2, 5 and 10 February 2024 before taking on the two heroines of Il Trittico, another superb masterpiece […]
Since 21 January 2024, the Semperoper in Dresden has been staging a revival of Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann, marking an eagerly awaited debut for Klaus Florian Vogt in the role of Tristan. After an absence of more than ten years, Marco Arturo Marelli‘s production, first performed in […]
While he is currently appearing at the Opéra Bastille in the role of Maurice de Saxe in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (alongside Anna Netrebko from 16 to 25 January 2024), tenor Yusif Eyvazov is due to give a recital at the Salle Gaveau on 29 January 2024 as part of the Philippe Maillard Productions season. One […]
Raphaël Pichon is a conductor who likes to play with scores. After the success of Miranda (a pasticcio based on a work by Purcell), the Opéra Comique entrusted him with a new production based on excerpts from Schubert’s operas. XWith these pieces put together, director Silvia Costa has built a production in which Stéphane Degout […]
From 5 to 24 March 2024, music lovers will be in Barcelona for the fifth edition of the Barcelona Obertura festival. The three major institutions in the Catalan capital (the Liceu, the Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori) have joined forces to make Barcelona ” the best destination devoted to the most renowned and […]
The Opéra National de Lorraine is offering an opera of a different kind, programming Haydn’s famous oratorio Die Schöpfung (The Creation) from 18 to 23 February 2024 at the Opéra de Nancy. At a time when 38% of Americans still believe that the Earth was created less than 10,000 years ago, director Kevin Barz is […]
