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 […]