From 19 April to 14 May 2024, the marvellous soprano Nadine Sierra finds herself in the midst of drama when she returns to the iconic role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Katie Mitchell‘s heart-rending and profound staging at London’s Royal Opera House – Covent Garden. Her partner is the superb Xabier Anduaga and Ioan […]

Having been acclaimed by the press, from 2 to 14 May 2024 La Monnaie in Brussels returns to the sensational staging of Britten‘s The Turn of the Screw by Andrea Breth, regarded as one of the greatest ambassadors of German theatre. The intrigues at House Bly with strange ghosts and a few apparitions will torment […]

Time seems to have no hold on the voice of Sandrine Piau, the divine French soprano who is embarking on a recital tour with a luxury partner, pianist David Kadouch, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève on 1 March 2024 or as part of the Festival de Saint-Denis on 9 June. A CD has just […]

Elena Stikhina (one of the 2016 winners of the Operalia Competition) continues her faultless career, notably as a special guest of the Wiener Staatsoper, a major international stage. The Russian soprano will be performing as Tosca on 2, 5 and 10 February 2024 before taking on the two heroines of Il Trittico, another superb masterpiece […]

While he is currently appearing at the Opéra Bastille in the role of Maurice de Saxe in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (alongside Anna Netrebko from 16 to 25 January 2024), tenor Yusif Eyvazov is due to give a recital at the Salle Gaveau on 29 January 2024 as part of the Philippe Maillard Productions season. One […]

The Opera of Lyon announces that for personal reasons, Olivier Assayas, the well-known filmmaker, will not stage Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, scheduled from March 17 to April 4, 2023. Eugen Jebeleanu signs this new production in his place with a newcomer in the role of Marcellina, the great French mezzo-soprano Sophie Pondjiclis, on stage […]

After her huge success in Gluck’s Armide at the Opéra Comique, Véronique Gens returns to a more modern tragedy in concert and on record. In January 2023, the Orchestre National de Lille, conducted by Alexandre Bloch, will support the superb soprano in Francis Poulenc’s La Voix humaine, on Wednesday 25 January at the Nouveau Siècle […]