When the 2020 Festival becomes the 2021 ! Further to the cancellation of the stage productions of 2020 Festival, the Arena di Verona Foundation announced the complete postponement of all performances in 2021. Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Puccini’s Turandot, Verdi’s Aida, Nabucco & La Traviata will be performed next season. Jonas Kaufmann, the most […]
The Chorégies d’Orange are partly saved ! Four events on the seven scheduled are postponed to 2021. Finally, the Béjart Ballet Lausanne will dance on the stage of the Ancient Theater, Nemanja Radulović will play the violin, Cecilia Bartoli will make her debut there and, the production of Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Dalila will no doubt […]
While the 2020 edition has been canceled, the Berliner Philharmoniker with his brilliant Music Director Kirill Petrenko and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden just announced the extention of their collaboration around the prestigious Osterfestspiele (the Easter Festival) beyond 2022. While the 2021 and 2022 editions will focus on the Russian repertoire, Richard Strauss will be at the […]
Piano recitals can be watched also through virtual webcast. The Gilmore Piano Festival, canceled this season like so many others, schedules two very interesting performances to discover two of the most promising pianists of the new generation. Seong-Jin Cho performs Chopin’s Preludes on May 1, 2020 and Igor Levit, Beethoven’s sonatas, on the 5th on […]
Culture is in danger everywhere but it is particularly essential in certain countries. Luckily, the 48th Istanbul Music Festival scheduled to take place on 2-25 June 2020 is not canceled but postponed to the second half of September 2020 thanks to the fantastic entousiasm of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). Photo […]
Even if Austria has maintained the interdiction of meetings involving the closing of theaters, the Bregenz Festival which will start on July 22, 2020 remains open with the revival of Verdi’s Rigoletto. On the floating stage, the production created last season requires less preparation. Rehearsals should begin on mid-June if everything goes well. Photo […]
Music lovers from all other the world hold their breath. Futher to the announcement by the President of the French Republic not to authorize the gatherings before mid-July, the Director of the Chorégies of Orange Jean-Louis Grinda has just announced that “The question is not only to cancel or not the performances; it is also, […]
Wagner stays at home in his birth town. While Oper Leipzig (his hometown) just annonced its 20-21 season, it is already organizing a major festival dedicated to the famous composer, in 2022. From June 20 to July 14, 2022, all of 13 Wagner’s operas will be performed. This season already, the institution gives an overview […]
Despite the speculations and the birds of ill omen, it is still supposed to take place and it promises to be exceptional! The Festival dell’Arena di Verona should welcome stars such as: Roberto Alagna, Marcelo Álvarez, Roberto Aronica, Angel Blue, Jorge de León, Plácido Domingo, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Yusif Eyvazov, Barbara Frittoli, Sonia Ganassi, Aida Garifullina, […]
Certainly one of the highlights of the Palazzetto Bru Zane Festival in Paris, from June 2 to 7, at the Athénée-Théâtre Louis Jouvet, the opera-fairy Cendrillon by Nicolas Isouard is directed by Marc Paquien and directed by the excellent Julien Chauvin leading the Concert de la Loge. An exciting new rediscovery after Lemoyne’s Phèdre performed […]
