The fine production of Handel’s Saul by the great director Barrie Kosky is on at the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen from 20 March to 5 April 2024, with Handelian bass-baritone Christopher Purves in the title role. For the occasion, the Royal Danish Opera will be joined in the pit by Concerto Copenhagen and its conductor […]
From 20 January to 16 February 2024, the Palais Garnier reprises Laurent Pelly‘s production of Handel‘s Giulio Cesare, this time conducted by Harry Bicket. After her great success in Ariodante, Emily D’Angelo was eagerly awaited by music lovers in the title role alongside the celestial Lisette Oropesa (Cleopatra) and Marianne Crebassa. A happy event keeps […]
The line-up for the 11th Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence has been unveiled by Dominique Bluzet, the Festival’s Executive Director, and Renaud Capuçon, its Artistic Director, with, as usual, events featuring major international stars such as conductors Tugan Sokhiev, Daniele Gatti, François-Xavier Roth, Christoph Eschenbach and Jean-Claude Casadesus, pianists Alexandre Kantorow and Elisabeth Leonskaja and, violinists […]
Having sung the role on stage many times, the extraordinary Cecilia Bartoli is back on tour in the guise of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Handel‘s masterpiece. The Orchestre Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco conducted by the loyal Gianluca Capuano is at the helm, with a cast chosen to surround […]
The great British director Deborah Warner, after the superb success of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Opéra Comique and Britten’s Billy Bud at the Teatro Real in Madrid, returns to the Théâtre du Châtelet, where she staged a perfect Beethoven’s Fidelio in 2002. From 19 to 29 January 2022, she will stage Messiah, Handel’s […]
For the first time since 1750, Handel’s beautiful oratorio Theodora returns to London’s Royal Opera House. From 31 January to 16 February 2022, the legendary stage welcomes baroque music in style with a new production by Katie Mitchell. The brilliant stage director can count on an incredible cast including Joyce DiDonato, Julia Bullock and Jakub […]
This opera is not a complete discovery, yet it is particularly scheduled on the 2021-2022 season. Handel’s Partenope is on tour with Les Arts Florissants under the alternating direction of William Christie and Paul Agnew. In November, the Teatro Real in Madrid will present a production by Christopher Alden with Iestyn Davies and the brilliant […]
The charming and very exceptional Baroque Festival of Drottningholms Castle in Sweden is also undergoing the throes of viral cancellations but the good news is the 2020 production in postponed to 2021. The performances of Handel’s Agrippina (starring Ann Hallenberg, Nahuel Di Pierro or Bruno de Sá) will take place from August 7 to 21, […]
Bad news turn sometimes into good news. At the Opéra Comédie in Montpellier, conductor Nathalie Stutzmann was to conduct a Handel’s great masterpiece, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. When she announced the dissolution of her baroque orchestra, she decided to withdraw from the project but the Opera National Orchestra of Montpellier still maintained […]
