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A new film festival in Cannes

The Cannes Dance Festival is offering the first edition of MOV’IN Cannes, its dance film competition. For its twenty-fourth edition, the event is breaking new ground while forging a natural link with cinema, an art form that is in the DNA of the city of Cannes. Seven professional judges from the two artistic fields, including […]

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43 years for 88 keys

The International Piano Festival of La Roque d’Anthéron reaches number 43 this season. 43th edition and as usual, the great keyboard stars and also the young artists of tomorrow are programmed. On the programme from 20 July to 20 August 2023, the different piano schools are represented with Mao Fujita for Japan, Maria João Pires […]

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The Summer Classical Music essential !

Music & Opera Magazine – Special Festival is out! In this issue, the programmes of 203 Festivals in 27 countries and as many ideas to find the paths of summer and autumn in classical music! The big institutions as well as the smaller but no less interesting ones can be found in the pages to […]

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More openings in Barcelona

A great city of tourism and classical music, Barcelona is offering the fourth edition of the Barcelona Obertura Festival from 8 to 31 March 2023. Organised jointly by the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Gran Teatre del Liceu and L’Auditori, with the Ajuntament de Barcelona, the event, which welcomes numerous artists (such as Isata […]

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux twice an enchantress

While the Chorégies d’Orange is focusing on her Carmen this summer, Marie-Nicole Lemieux will first enchant the Philharmonie de Paris on 9 January 2023, with the ensemble Les Épopées (then on 11 January at Bozar in Brussels). They present their new programme entitled ‘Enchantress’, in which the superb mezzo tackles the great tragic heroines such […]

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30 years of Aujourd’hui and contemporary music

The Aujourd’hui Musiques Festival, which will be held from 10 to 20 November 2022 at L’Archipel Scène Nationale de Perpignan, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this season. For thirty years now, the Festival has been honouring different contemporary musical writings, composers and their performers. This season’s programme includes composers such as Betsy Jolas, Kaija Saariaho, […]

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The unknowns of Puglia

The titles of the operas to be performed at the 48th edition of the Festival della Valle d’Itria have been revealed. As usual, the famous opera festival in Martina Franca, in the beautiful Italian region of Puglia, is offering little or no known works. From 19 July to 6 August 2022, the new artistic director […]

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Mozart hit by Covid! :

While a Covid peak is expected in Austria in the middle of Mozart Week, the Festival and its artistic director, the famous tenor Rolando Villazón, have taken the sad decision to cancel the 2022 edition of the Mozartwoche, making Mozart another Covid victim!   Book your tickets for a show in Austria.    Photo : […]

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The Italians are back in force at the Chorégies d’Orange

Two staged operas, a ballet, a film-concert, a recital, two beautiful concerts and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, the 2022 season of the Chorégies d’Orange has been unveiled with many highlights. Cancelled last season, the Verdi concert with La Scala de Milano will take conducted by the expert Riccardo Chailly. The opera is back in force with […]

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Rossini to the Rossinians

As the programme for the must-see Rossini Opera Festival 2022 has just been unveiled, the great Italian festival that honours its composer has announced the appointment of its new artistic director, and he is not a stranger. Juan Diego Flórez is without doubt the greatest Rossinian singer of his generation. After being discovered in Pesaro […]