The Metropolitan Opera has awarded the 2022 Beverly Sills Artist Award with $50,000 to help launch the recipient’s career. After Erin Morley, Brenda Rae, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Ben Bliss and Ryan Speedo Green were awarded as a group in 2021 due to Covid, baritone Will Liverman is the new star with a bright future. He […]

From 22 May to 12 June 2022, the Zürich Opera House will stage Tatjana Gürbaca’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti’s masterpiece. A few days after Vienna, Lisette Oropesa will be joined by her partner Benjamin Bernheim, who has just made a remarkable debut at the Vienna State Opera as Edgardo.   More info and […]

It is 100 years since he joined his muses, Camille Saint-Saëns has been celebrated throughout this year 2021, which ends in a climax in Berlin. From 5 to 19 December 2021, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden will present an exceptional cast in Samson et Dalila. The exceptional Wagnerian tenor Andreas Schager will fall under the […]

While some performances of Lakmé at the Opéra Comique in September and October 2022 are already almost sold out, soprano Sabine Devieilhe is making headlines. She is scheduled to appear in Handel’s Alcina at the Palais Garnier from 28 November to 17 December 2021 as Morgana for the first time. She will then fly to […]

It is always good to remember the importance of Singing Competitions in the career of young artists who can become better known to professionals and the public. While the final of the Voix des Outre-mer competition is scheduled on 10 January 2022 at the Opéra national de Paris, former winners have just made a name […]

For this new 2021-2022 season, ABAO Bilbao is offering an ambitious programme of new productions with 8 titles covering the French, Italian and German repertoire. (Verdi, Rossini, Offenbach, Poulenc…) The season just began with a major premiere: a new performance at the ABAO of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann with an exceptional cast (Michael Fabiano, Jessica […]

The great pianist  Evgeny Kissin  has just celebrated his 50th birthday (on October 10, 2021) and 40 years of career! On Tuesday 18 January 2022, he will give an exceptional piano recital in Toulouse for the Grands Interprètes series with a Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin programme that you should not miss…   More info […]

The most Italian of French operas, Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, has not been performed at the  Opéra national de Paris  since 1985 (sic). From 13 to 21 December 2021, the  Opéra Comique  will once again perform the great masterpiece with an ideal cast (Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Borras, Adèle Charvet, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Jérôme Boutillier with Laurent […]

Bologna’s Teatro Communale is making Italian history by appointing for the very first time a woman as head of an opera house. After having been Music Director of the Graz Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra, Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv will step on her new role in January 2022. She is also well known to be the […]

After his triumph in Paris in Beethoven’s Fidelio, the exceptional tenor Michael Spyres is now expected at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 21 and 23 October 2021, where he will perform for the first time as Idomeneo in Mozart’s opera. More info / Book your tickets HERE.    Photography : Michael Spyres ©  Marco Borrelli