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 […]
As the Mozartwoche 2023 prepares to open its doors on January 26, 2023 in Salzburg, its charming artistic director, the truculent Rolando Villazón, is faced with the predictable cancellation of Daniel Barenboim. The pianist and conductor is unwell and has to give up conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and performing with his friend Martha Argerich. The […]
It is now 10 years since the great pianist Ivo Pogorelich (flamboyant flunner of the 1980 Chopin Competition) came to Paris with an orchestra. The gap will be filled on 14 December 2022 at the Salle Gaveau where the artist will perform Chopin‘s fabulous Concerto No. 2 with the Orchestre Appassionato conducted by Matthieu Herzog […]
Every season, Cecilia Bartoli‘s appearance in Paris is an event. In the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez on Friday 25 November 2022, the Philharmonie had announced a Mozart concert, but the diva has refined her idea by finally programming a concert version of La Clemenza di Tito by the same Mozart with an exceptional cast. John […]
As the programme for the next 2022 Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence is unveiled, the music lovers’ party seems to be confirmed on all floors and in all halls with Mozart’s Idomeneo and Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon at the l’Archevêché theater, Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Strauss’s Salome, concert […]
While a Covid peak is expected in Austria in the middle of Mozart Week, the Festival and its artistic director, the famous tenor Rolando Villazón, have taken the sad decision to cancel the 2022 edition of the Mozartwoche, making Mozart another Covid victim! Book your tickets for a show in Austria. Photo : […]
On 10 November 2020, a tribute will be paid to the victims of the November 2015 attacks in France with a concert at the Salle Gaveau. The Orchestre de chambre de Paris under the direction of Pierre Bleuse will create a work by composer Bechara El-Khoury entitled “Il fait novembre en mon âme” (It is […]
