The Verona Arena Festival, to be held from June 8 to September 7, 2024, has just revealed the cast, but only of one production for the time being. Crowned Queen of Ice in Turandot in 2021, Queen of Egypt in Aida in 2022, Anna Netrebko confirms her place as the new muse of the world’s […]
While it can boast a glorious past, Lisbon’s Teatro Nacional de São Carlos remains a low-key venue with a programme that European music lovers have been watching out for. The eighteenth-century theatre, located in the heart of the historic Chiado district, hosts only a handful of productions each season, as the institution has other, more […]
After a grandiose 2023 season that marked its 100th anniversary, the Verona Arena Festival has just put the shows for the 2024 edition on sale. From 8 June to 7 September, there will be five special evenings, including a dance show by Roberto Bolle and, above all, seven opera titles, including a tribute to Puccini. […]
A new production is always an event at the Wiener Staatsoper. What can we say when we’re talking about three operas! On 4 October 2023, Austria’s leading opera house will welcome Puccini’s Il trittico. Philippe Jordan conducts the three operas that make up this famous triptych in one evening: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni […]
2024 is sure to be a great Puccini year to mark the hundredth anniversary of his death. The Opernhaus Zürich has decided not to wait, programming La rondine, a delicate masterpiece that will be performed for the very first time in Switzerland! From 17 September 2023, the sensitive Ermonela Jaho and the magnificent Benjamin Bernheim […]
The end of season event at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris will indeed take place but without the lively conductor Lorenzo Viotti. Indeed, he has just withdrawn from the production of Puccini’s La Bohème directed by Eric Ruf which will take place from 15 to 24 June 2023. Lorenzo Passerini replaces as musical director […]
The new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Rome Opera, from 16 to 25 June 2023, is likely to be the talk of the town. Although it marks the return of Italian soprano Eleonora Buratto as Cio-cio-san after her success at the Metropolitan in New York, and although Roberto Abbado, the highly experienced conductor, […]
Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who recently renewed his contract with the Philadelphia Orchestra, has his work cut out for him. The artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera is preparing to conduct the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s opera Champion from 10 April 2023 (after the success of Fire Shut Up in My Bones). Since 26 February […]
For December 2022, Oper Zürich has chosen safety by programming three great opera masterpieces: Puccini’s La bohème, Verdi’s La traviata and Puccini’s Tosca, but as it is almost Christmas, Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann (alternating with Yusif Eyvazov) and Bryn Terfel are the gifts that adorn Tosca. Cherry on the Christmas tree, Juan Diego Flórez performs […]
On March 12, 2022, Jonas Kaufmann will be reunited with conductor Antonio Pappano conducting the Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at the Parco della Musica for a concert version that promises to be equally miraculous. In Turandot, Puccini’s masterpiece, the superstar tenor is joined by the no less exceptional voices of Sondra […]
