After a rich Fauré Year in 2024, celebrating the centenary of the famous composer’s passing, a major event is on the horizon. The Requiem, an absolute masterpiece by Fauré and a cornerstone of Western musical literature, will be conducted by Raphaël Pichon at the helm of Ensemble Pygmalion during a European tour from May 11 […]

Since this summer, music lovers have known that Voltaire aspired to provide Rameau with an opera libretto about Samson, the well-known biblical figure famous for his complicated history with the temptress Delilah, who cut his hair. Unfortunately, royal censorship refused to allow this sacred story to be staged in an opera (something Saint-Saëns would achieve […]

Raphaël Pichon is a conductor who likes to play with scores. After the success of Miranda (a pasticcio based on a work by Purcell), the Opéra Comique entrusted him with a new production based on excerpts from Schubert’s operas. XWith these pieces put together, director Silvia Costa has built a production in which Stéphane Degout […]

The brilliant baroque conductor Raphaël Pichon conducts the production of Cavalli’s Ercole Amante at the Paris’ Opéra-Comique and at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and then goes on tour with his Ensemble Pygmalion in an all-Mozart program called “Libertà!“. Performances are secheduled at Toulouse’s La Halle Grains on December 16, 2019 or at the Philharmonie […]