From 17 to 26 November 2023, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin will be hosting the Barocktage 2023, where the French presence will be in evidence everywhere. Of the three major productions on the bill, two are from the French repertoire: Charpentier’s Médée (performed by Magdalena Kožená in Peter Sellars‘ staging conducted by Simon […]
Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s production opened the debates this summer at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. By offering the roles to singers in their fifties, the director proposed a radical version of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. From 2 to 22 February 2024, audiences at the Théâtre du Châtelet will be able to discover his work, with a special treat […]
Lille Opera is particularly in the news this 2023-2024 season as the venerable institution celebrates a double anniversary. Just 20 years ago, the opera house returned to the public after a long period of closure for renovation. But it’s the 100th anniversary in particular that will be celebrated this year, as the Lille Opera opened […]
Nancy’s superb opera house, set on the Place Stanislas, will open its 2023-2024 season with Mozart‘s early opera, the great masterpiece Idomeneo, on 29 September 2023. In the meantime, the Opéra is organising a competition in partnership with Vitrines de Nancy. To take part, all you have to do is visit one of the participating […]
The American pianist Kimball Gallagher will give a recital in Salle Gaveau on 12 June 2023, opening up new perceptions with a programme of classical music from Africa and Europe. Indeed, alongside works by Mozart and Chopin, original contemporary creations will be heard such as the compositions of Souhayl Guesmi, mixing piano, saxophone, nay (Tunisian […]
The Mozarteumorchester Salzburg (the Mozart Foundation’s orchestra founded in 1841 by Constance Mozart, the divine composer’s wife) is getting a new music director. From the 2024-25 season, the Spanish conductor Roberto González-Monjas will preside over the destiny of the Austrian orchestra. A former student of the Mozarteum University, he admits to an interest in and […]
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 […]
The great violinist Isabelle Faust has joined the English Baroque Soloists to perform Mozart‘s Symphony Concertante in E flat major with Antoine Tamestit and Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting. Lucky audiences will travel to London, Budapest or Munich on 16 January 2023, the last date of a concluding European tour. Your tickets to see […]
The Opera of Lyon announces that for personal reasons, Olivier Assayas, the well-known filmmaker, will not stage Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, scheduled from March 17 to April 4, 2023. Eugen Jebeleanu signs this new production in his place with a newcomer in the role of Marcellina, the great French mezzo-soprano Sophie Pondjiclis, on stage […]
The little Mozart was introduced to the Grand Couvert of King Louis XV at the Court of Versailles when he was only 7 years old. To commemorate this event, the Royal Opera of Versailles will program four operas of the divine composer in December and January. From December 27, 2022 to January 1, 2023, Hervé […]
