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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
January is a fruitful month for the Philharmonie de Paris, which welcomes three of the most prominent conductors. Sir Simon Rattle opens the ball on 14 and 15 January 2023 with the London Symphony Orchestra and two fine programmes, Sibelius/Bruckner then Beethoven/Stravinsky. The Orchestre de Paris meets Esa-Pekka Salonen on 25 and 26 January for […]
While Covid prevented him from making his debut in the role at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Stéphane Degout will be Tchaikovsky‘s Eugene Onegin, at last! at La Monnaie in Brussels from 29 January to 14 February 2023. In Laurent Pelly‘s production, the baritone recently crowned ‘Singer of the Year’ at the International Opera […]
Double news for Tugan Sokhiev obliged to renounce to come to New York to conduct a concert on May 10-12, 2023, because of a schedule conflict (James Gaffigan is replacing him at the head of the New York Philharmonic). On the other hand, the Russian conductor who presided over the destiny of the Orchestre national […]
In 2023, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées gives carte blanche to the pianist David Fray who has composed the program for three exceptional concerts on January 26, March 31 and May 26, 2023. For the Winterreise (26/1), he accompanies the great baritone Peter Mattei before a solo recital on 31/3 (with Liszt also on the program) […]
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 […]
Les Siècles, the orchestra formed in 2003 by François-Xavier Roth, celebrates its twentieth anniversary at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées where they are in residence this season. On January 10, 2023, the conductor will conduct a concert dedicated to French late romanticism (Debussy, Lalo, Roussel, Massenet, Dukas and Ravel) in the very particular spirit of the […]
