Since 2024, when the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s passing was celebrated, the Festival of Torre del Lago, dedicated to the renowned Italian opera composer, has been changing its traditions. Indeed, the cast lists for the 2025 season have already been announced. Featured at the 71st edition of the Puccini Festival 2025, five of the composer’s […]
You have to browse the Teatro San Carlo’s website in Naples to find the information. Although he was scheduled to perform in a series of Puccini’s Tosca performances in September 2025, alongside Sondra Radvanovsky and Anna Pirozzi in alternating casts, Jonas Kaufmann has mysteriously disappeared from the lineup. However, on January 31, in the “News” […]
The Chorégies d’Orange have unveiled their 2025 program, packed with prestigious events. Highlights include unmissable concerts (Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique conducted by Michele Spotti, Mozart’s Requiem under the baton of Diego Ceretta featuring Jessica Pratt, a recital by Renaud Capuçon, and Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio), Swan Lake performed by the Ballet Preljocaj, and two operas in […]
“Habemus distributionem!” For once, unusually so early in the season, the Verona Arena Festival has unveiled the casts of the five operas scheduled this summer (Aida, Carmen, Nabucco, Rigoletto, and La Traviata). From June 13 to September 6, 2025, on one of the world’s largest opera stages, a parade of superstars is expected. In addition […]
The celebrated Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi continues her streak of triumphs. Following a fiery performance as Maddalena di Coigny in Andrea Chénier by Giordano in Paris and Lyon, she will take on the role of Aida, Verdi’s famed Ethiopian slave, in London in a production directed by Robert Carsen (from January 28 to February 12, […]
The Verona Arena Festival events have been announced with some exceptional Toscas, including the one on 30 August 2024 featuring Elena Stikhina, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier in the role of the horrible Barone Scarpia. The superstar baritone has a surprise in store for lucky festival-goers where he performs as Amonasro in a deluxe Aida […]
The great tragedienne Adrienne Lecouvreur inspired an opera, Adriana Lecouvreur, Cilea‘s masterpiece, which is set to delight the Parisian stage. While the actress will be played by Anna Netrebko and Anna Pirozzi in alternation from 16 January to 7 February 2024 at the Opéra national de Paris, a concert version is performed at the Théâtre […]
From 6 to 29 November 2023, the Opéra Bastille once again welcomes the aesthetic universe of Bob Wilson with his production of Puccini’s Turandot. For the occasion, two sopranos were to alternate on stage. While Tamara Wilson will make her Paris Opéra debut before playing Beatrice di Tenda in Bellini’s opera on the same stage […]
While Cherubini’s Medea is expected in Athens next April, the united forces of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles summon the spirit of M.-A. Charpentier by performing a concert version of his Medea on the stage of the Théâtre de l’avenue Montaigne. Anna Pirozzi in Athens and Véronique Gens […]
While Parisian music lovers were eagerly awaiting her stage debut, Anna Pirozzi fulfilled expectations in La forza del destino at the Opéra national de Paris by replacing Miss Netrebko at short notice. And now, from 21 January to 17 February 2023, audiences at the Opéra Bastille will be able to see her in Leonora in […]
