Hardly had he unpacked his bags in Nice, and Lionel Bringuier is already setting his sights on new horizons! After two successful seasons at the helm of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, the conductor is preparing to leave his native city once again to take up the baton as Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra […]
After a first European tour in January 2025, Gustavo Dudamel returns to the Old Continent—this time, to its southern lands. Indeed, it is in Catalonia, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Palau de Musica, that the renowned Venezuelan conductor, leading the prestigious London Symphony Orchestra, will reunite with his European audience […]
The 2023 season marked the 30th anniversary of the Verbier Festival, and now the program for 2025 has been revealed. The 32nd edition will take place from July 16 to August 3, 2025, featuring unique encounters and, as always, an impressive lineup of world-renowned artists, including Martha Argerich, Khatia Buniatishvili, Janine Jansen, Lise Davidsen, Bryn […]
The year 2025 will be a grand celebration of Ravel, who would have turned 150 on March 7. To mark the occasion, the Philharmonie de Paris is devoting to him an exhibition of a new kind for this major centre of French musical life. From December 3, 2024, to June 15, 2025, at the Musée […]
Every self-respecting Frenchman is a master of the art of criticism. Parisians even have the reputation of being champions in this field, as it is well known that “J’aime rien, je suis parisien” (‘I don’t like anything, I’m Parisian’). The famous opening ceremony was therefore awaited with posed detachment before arousing enthusiasm and joy, the […]
Although he remains the world’s most famous gambist, Jordi Savall is an exciting conductor, leading the Hespèrion XXI ensemble in medieval, Renaissance and Baroque repertoire and Le Concert des Nations in repertoire ranging from Baroque to Romanticism. The great artist is also artistic director of a festival that bears his name. The next Jordi Savall […]
The Radio France Montpellier Occitanie Festival, to be held from 8 to 20 July 2024, has just announced a very fine programme, with one astonishing piece of information. On 9 July, François-Xavier Roth, at the helm of the Les Siècles orchestra, will conduct a world premiere of a previously unpublished work by Maurice Ravel. We […]
Les Siècles, the orchestra formed in 2003 by François-Xavier Roth, celebrates its twentieth anniversary at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées where they are in residence this season. On January 10, 2023, the conductor will conduct a concert dedicated to French late romanticism (Debussy, Lalo, Roussel, Massenet, Dukas and Ravel) in the very particular spirit of the […]
