After the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists parted ways with their founding conductor John Eliot Gardiner this summer, Gardiner has decided to form a new ensemble, The Constellation. The situation wouldn’t seem so peculiar if Gardiner hadn’t managed to insert himself into the 2024-2025 season at the Elbphilharmonie—with the same program, but one […]

Two of the most famous choirs in Europe have just announced some changes. The Bayreuth Festival has recruited Thomas Eitler-de Lint, formerly of the Oper Leipzig, to take over the direction of the famous choir at Germany’s greatest festival. As the job is seasonal, Eitler-de Lint will retain his duties in Leipzig. In England, the […]

After the altercation that shook the entire musical sphere this summer, John Eliot Gardiner cancelled all his concerts and was due to return to the stage in spring 2024. The conductor has just announced that he is extending his absence while accepting full responsibility for his actions, which he says he deeply regrets. The Beethoven […]

The scandal of the summer will have allowed a new talent to blossom. After John Eliot Gardiner slapped one of the artists in the cast of Berlioz’s Les Troyens at La Côte-Saint-André, the great anticipated event of the season turned into a sordid news item. John Eliot Gardiner was undoubtedly one of the greatest Berlioz […]

Few conductors like him have left an indelible mark, John Eliot Gardiner returns to Berlioz by conducting Les Troyens, the fresco opera by the great French composer. The Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique are of course involved, as is tenor Michael Spyres who takes on the role of Aeneas. The event will […]