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 […]
The fast-moving and well-loved Rolando Villazón has more than one string to his bow. Singer, TV and radio host, the tenor who has taken over the artistic direction of the famous Mozartwoche in Salzburg in 2019 has just been reappointed. The renowned Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg has renewed its trust in Rolando Villazón for another five […]
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 […]
Two major opera houses coproduce an exceptional trilogy. From February 18 to March 28, 2020 at La Monnaie-De Munt in Brussels then from September 15 to 26, 2020 at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the three Mozart-Da Ponte masterpieces will be staged by Clarac-Delœuil. Their very interesting idea is to have the stories of Nozze […]
The Salzburg Mozart Institute is recovering hair! As the next Mozart Woche (from January 23 to February 2, 2020) is announced, the famous Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum has announced the acquisition of a collection of original documents including a lock of hair belonging to the famous composer. Still, we do not know if Figaro made the […]
To perform the divine Symphony concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, KV 364 of the genius Mozart, who else than top artists such as Isabelle Faust and Tabea Zimmermann ? With conductor Iván Fischer and the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, the dream come true. To enjoy this fabulous concert, three options : running on December 11th & […]
