Tous à l’Opéra! The French event will fortunately take place this season 2020. On Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October 2020, the French opera houses open their doors to all Opera goers and curious. The event especially important this year is part of the World Opera Day. The wonderful mezzo Karine Deshayes is the godmother […]
All is not lost in Versailles ! Even if some brilliant performances have been canceled, the end of the 2019-2020 season is partly saved. Some recitals are postponed such as Jakub Józef Orlinski’s (scheduled on April 20, 2020 and postponed to December 14, 2020), Cecilia Bartoli’s (from March 30, 2020 to October 10, 2020) or […]
Madness in Quarantine! The Monte-Carlo Opera offers each week to watch or re-watch one of its prestigious productions. This week, Act III of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor directed by Jean Louis Grinda starring Olga Peretyatko, can be discovered as an example of what could happen if we are locked up way too long! Photo : […]
Sixth week of Opera streams. The Metropolitan Opera offers to watch exciting productions on this new week of confinement like R. Strauss’s Elektra directed by Esa-Pekka Salonen and starring Nina Stemme or Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann starring Joseph Calleja and Anna Netrebko, Verdi’s La Traviata starring Natalie Dessay and the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Puccini’s Tosca […]
News from Japan … Also forced to cancel its performances (until May 10, 2020), the New National Theater in Tokyo joins the list of Operas that broadcast their productions online. On their website, opera fans can appreciate Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and then Puccini’s Turandot and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Program : 10 April, 15:00 – […]
Certainly one of the highlights of the Palazzetto Bru Zane Festival in Paris, from June 2 to 7, at the Athénée-Théâtre Louis Jouvet, the opera-fairy Cendrillon by Nicolas Isouard is directed by Marc Paquien and directed by the excellent Julien Chauvin leading the Concert de la Loge. An exciting new rediscovery after Lemoyne’s Phèdre performed […]
Superb mezzo Joyce DiDonato is back at New York’s Carnegie Hall on 30 April to perform Handel’s Ariodante in a concert version conducted by Harry Bicket and co-starring also soprano Christiane Karg
Sold out! all tickets to attend Verdi’s Otello at London’s Royal Opera House in June-July 2017 are gone! Antonio Pappano and Keith Warner could be the reason why or maybe it is Maria Agresta, Ludovic Tézier or Jonas Kaufmann perhaps ! Consolation, the performances of June 24 & 28 are filmed.
From 2 April at Zurich Opera, Juan Diego Flórez performs on stage as Werther in Massenet’s opera directed by Tatjana Gürbaca with Anna Stéphany, Mélissa Petit and Audun Iversen
Great talent scout, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire performs Vivaldi’s Orlando at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on 19 avril with Amaya Domínguez and Samantha Louis-Jean as Orlando and Angelica
