The Champs-Elysées will welcome Orpheus and Eurydice as it should, but from 21 September to 1 October 2022, this is not mythology! The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées reprises Robert Carsen’s magnificent production of Gluck’s opera to offer the superb Jakub Józef Orliński the iconic and much-anticipated role of Orfeo. With his golden voice and magazine cover […]
The Philharmonie de Paris is back with a bang, with a line-up of great conductors. On the 6th and 7th of September 2020, Yannick Nézet-Séguin opens the ball with the Philadelphia Orchestra (and a fine programme with, in particular, the soprano Angel Blue, the revelation of Gounod’s Faust at Bastille). On the 8th and 9th, […]
While the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris has just announced its new 2022-2023 season, a press release announces the very first change and it is a happy news! She was scheduled to perform Offenbach’s La Périchole, directed by Marc Minkowski and staged by Laurent Pelly, from 13 November 2022 but Marianne Crebassa is expecting a […]
After celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Ensemble Matheus, the 20th anniversary of the Concert d’Astrée and Marielle Nordmann’s 81st birthday, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées now welcomes the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées to celebrate its 30th anniversary. For the occasion, the orchestra will perform Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) […]
In June 2022, lucky Parisians don’t have to go far because the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is hosting three great European orchestras. On 2 June, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden opens the ball with Christian Thielemann and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9. The following day, András Schiff plays and conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment from […]
The Philharmonie de Paris, like all Western concert halls, has cancelled the visit of the pro-Putin Russian conductor Valery Gergiev. A prestigious replacement has been found for the performances on 16 and 17 May 2022 with Daniele Gatti who will conduct the Münchner Philharmoniker. A few programme changes have been made, including the cancellation of […]
From 2 to 12 March 2022, the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet in Paris will be ablaze with Monteverdi’s Il Nerone. The new production of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Alain Françon takes this title in reference to the first time the work was given in Paris in 1647. The young artists in residence of the Académie […]
On Saturday 19, Sunday 20 and Monday 21 February 2022, lovers of Bach’s music will be in Paris in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez of the Philharmonie for one of three concerts. Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble performs three oratorios devoted to the great Christian festivals (Christmas, Easter, Ascension) completed by the St John […]
A genre that is too little known in the world between comic opera and singspiel, zarzuela is full of masterpieces with sources that date back to the Baroque era. Quite naturally, the Salle Favart, the temple of comic opera, will host the production of Coronis composed by Sebastián Durón around 1705 from 14 to 17 […]
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer Anton Bruckner, conductor and organist Hansjörg Albrecht announces the release of a ten-disc boxed set of the symphonies transcribed for organ. They will be recorded on various spectacular organs in Europe such as London, Vienna, Lucerne and Paris, where in […]
