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17/05/2013
After 12 year as Music Director of the Houston Symphony, Hans Graf conducts his final concerts.
17/05/2013
Belgium violoniste Marc Bouchkov, won the Montréal International Music Contest.
17/05/2013
The finalists of the Geneva Contest for the Composers' Price are: Eunho Chang & Kwang Ho Cho (South Korea), Gabriele Cosmi & Adriano Gaglianello (Italy), Chikako Yamanaka (Japan).
17/05/2013
New programme :
Barbican Centre
BBC Proms
Royal Opera House - Covent Garden
Vlaamse Opera
WDR-Sinfonieorchester Köln
16/05/2013
Hilary Hahn performs Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the Wiener Philharmoniker at Vienna's Konzerthaus, on 25 & 26/5, Sakari Oramo conducts.
16/05/2013
An audience of more than 14.000 visitors attended the first edition of the Aix-en-Provence easter Festival.
16/05/2013
New programme :
Bayerische Staatsoper
Münchner Opernfestspiele
Opéra de Marseille
Opéra de Montréal
15/05/2013
The new 2013 Paris Festival Chopin will be held from 15/06/2013 to 14/07/2013 (season on line here).
15/05/2013
Piotr Anderszewski performs Bach and Schumann on 23/5 at London Southbank Center.
15/05/2013
Another date is added in Lang Lang's scheduled: on 27/5, he will perform at Santiago de Chile's Teatro Municipal.
14/05/2013
Young pianist Rafal Blechacz performs Schumann's concerto with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Harding on 30/05 at Kölner Philharmonie.
14/05/2013
A saxophonist just won the Lepine competition for inventors with a new concept to protect the saxo's reed.
14/05/2013
New programme :
Bayerische Staatsoper
Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart
Münchner Opernfestspiele 2014
Zürcher Festspiele 2014
13/05/2013
On 19/05, Music Director James Levine is back to lead The MET Orchestra in its final concert of the 2012-2013 Carnegie Hall season.
13/05/2013
Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, celebrates Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps 100 birthday, on 15/05 at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts.
13/05/2013
New programme :
Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart
Opéra de Marseille
Opéra de Montréal
Orchestre de Paris
10/05/2013
The International Young Conductors Contests of Besançon Record (from 16 to 21 September 2013) had a peak of registration this year !
10/05/2013
The new 2013 Rome Chamber Music Festival will be held from 09/06/2013 to 13/06/2013 (season on line here)
10/05/2013
New programme :
De Nederlandse Opera
Grand Théâtre de Genève
New York Philharmonic
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
07/05/2013
The new Music & Opera Chronical "La nouvelle Traviata" is on line (only available in French)...
07/05/2013
The new 2013 Opera Holland Park will be held from 04/06/2013 to 31/07/2013 (season on line here)
07/05/2013
New programme :
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Teatro Real
06/05/2013
Daniel Barenboim hurt his back and cancel his apearance with Barbara Frittoli at la Scala, tonight. He had ro cancel too some performances of Götterdämmerung.
06/05/2013
The new 2013 summer season of the Opéra de Vichy will be held from 04/06/2013 to 11/10/2013 (season on line here)
06/05/2013
New programme :
American Ballet Theatre
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
The Los Angeles Philharmonic
03/05/2013
At Madrid's Teatro Real, the great Riccardo Muti conducts Donizetti's Don Pasquale from 13/5.
03/05/2013
The new 2013 Klavier-Festival Ruhr opens tonight and ends on 14/07/2013.
03/05/2013
At Vichy Opera on 4/6, Blandine Staskiewicz remplaces Vivica Genaux in Händel's opera Alessandro with Max Emanuel Cencic in the title-role.
02/05/2013
On 24/6, Rolando Villazón performs Verdi at Toulouse's Halle aux Grains.
02/05/2013
Next season at De Vlaamse Opera, actor Christoph Waltz will make his debut as stage director with Der Rosenkavalier (on 15/12...)
02/05/2013
New programme :
Barbican Centre
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Utah Symphony
Vancouver Opera
30/04/2013
The new Music & Opera Chronical "La nouvelle Traviata" is on line (only available in French)...
30/04/2013
The concert season of the Wiener Mozart Otchester begins tomorrow in Vienna's most beautiful places (Musikverein, Staatsoper,...).
30/04/2013
Jordi Savall residency at the brand new Bordeaux Auditorium, continues on 21, 23 et 25/5.
29/04/2013
Oper Frankfurt received the Opera Award of the 2013 best Opera Company and Salzburg 2013 best Festival Opera.
29/04/2013
Thierry Thieû Niang directs Pauline Viardot's rare opera Cendrillon, at the Opéra de Reims, on 14/5.
29/04/2013
New programme :
The Metropolitan Opera
26/04/2013
Nina Stemme and Jonas Kaufmann received the 2013 Opera Awards for best singers.
26/04/2013
The new 2013 Wolfsburg Movimentos ends on 05/05/2013.
26/04/2013
New programme :
Alte Oper Frankfurt
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Les Grands Interprètes - Toulouse
25/04/2013
Exceptional offer on two of the major productions of the Paris Opera: La Gioconda (7, 20/5) and Götterdämmerung (30/5, 3/6). M&O offers exceptional discount on cat. 1.
25/04/2013
The Aix-en-Provence Festival received two Opera Awards: World Premiere (Benjamin's Written on Skin) and Rediscovered Work (Charpentier's David et Jonathas)
25/04/2013
New programme :
Festival de Musique de Chambre de Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Festival de Musique de Menton
Opéra Comique
Münchner Philharmoniker
24/04/2013
Editions Hortus CD New Release : Händel's intimate theatre by Les Lunes du Cousin Jacques Ensemble.
24/04/2013
The Vancouver Opera will premiere in Canadian the Tan Dun's opera Tea: A Mirror of Soul in just two weeks.
24/04/2013
New programme :
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Settimane Musicali di Ascona
23/04/2013
Ambronay Editions CD New Release : two Mozart's marterpieces, the Requiem & the Clarinet Concerto conducted by talented Maestro Leonardo García Alarcón.
23/04/2013
Artistic director of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic, principal guest conductor of the National Orchestra of Brittany in France, and principal guest in Kanagawa, Sascha Goetzel will conduct his Kuopio Symphony on Thursday for the last time as Principal Conductor.
23/04/2013
New programme :
Münchner Philharmoniker
Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden - Semperoper
Singapore International Piano Festival
22/04/2013
The next Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France has been named : Mikko Franck will be in Paris from the 2015 season.
22/04/2013
Tenor Bryan Hymel received the eighth annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers.
22/04/2013
New programme :
Festspielhaus und Festspiele Baden-Baden
Opernhaus Zürich
19/04/2013
From June 9 to 13 will be held at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, the Rome Chamber Music Festival.
19/04/2013
On June 28, for 15 years the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, a Gala Concert with Hélène Grimaud and Valery Gergiev.
18/04/2013
Sophie Koch is the 2013 Godmother of the French event Tous à l'Opéra, on May 11-12
Anne Sofie von Otter is in recital at the Geneva' Grand Theatre (May 12th).
17/04/2013
The International Piano Festival of La Roque d'Anthéron season outdors at Marseille's Théâtre de La Criée continue on 21/05 with David Kadouch and Edgar Moreau in recital.
17/04/2013
On 10/06 at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts, Frank Strobel conducts the Brussels Philarmonic with Kubrick's materpiece « 2001, A Space Odyssey » on the screen.
16/04/2013
RIP Sir Colin Davis.
16/04/2013
Helmuth Rilling (80, this season) will pass the Oregon Bach Festival's leadership on to Matthew Halls, his successor.
16/04/2013
New programme :
Salle Pleyel
Wiener Staatsoper
15/04/2013
Irish-born mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught makes her premiere recital tour to North America this spring.
15/04/2013
The Summer Dance Festival at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet invites the Wiener Staatsballett directed by Manuel Legris, for 21 performances.
15/04/2013
New programme :
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
12/04/2013
Major event tonight at Wiener Staatsoper with the premiere of Eugen Onegin conducted by Andris Nelsons and starring Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky !
12/04/2013
A new concert is scheduled on 18/06 in Toulouse: great pianist Krystian Zimerman in recital.
12/04/2013
New programme :
Aspen Music Festival
Audi Sommerkonzerte
Bolzano Festival Bozen
Carinthischer Sommer
Festival du Périgord Noir
Festival Wiltz
Lincoln Center Festival
Mostly Mozart
Musiciennes à Ouessant
Musiques à la Chabotterie
operklosterneuburg
Rome Chamber Music Festival
Saoû chante Mozart
Settimane Musicali Meranesi
Verdi Festival Parma
11/04/2013
On May 11-12, the French Opera Houses open its doors. For example, at Reims Opéra, audience will be invited to wear opera costumes!
11/04/2013
Three days of celebration events (2-4 May) for the opening of the new Mariinsky II, conducted by Valery Gergiev with Anna Netrebko, etc.
11/04/2013
New programme :
Bard Music Festival
Château de Versailles Spectacles (Festival)
Festival Chopin
Festival de Musique Classique Montreux Vevey, Septembre Musical
Festival de Musique de la Chaise-Dieu
Festival de Musique de Toulon
Festival della Valle d'Itria
Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi
Festival International de l'Abbaye de Sylvanès
Festival Pergolesi Spontini
Gent Festival van Vlaanderen
Klavier-Festival Ruhr
Les Jardins Musicaux
Opera Holland Park
Opernfestspiele in der Stiftsruine Bad Hersfeld
Pafos Aphrodite Festival Cyprus
Rossini in Wildbad - Das Belcanto-Festival
See Festspiele Berlin
Septembre Musical de l'Orne
Settimana Musicale Senese
SOLsberg Festival
Taormina Arte
Terme di Caracalla
10/04/2013
On the occasion of the Watteau concert cycle in Brussels, on 19/04, Betrand Cuiller performs Couperin with image projection from a lanterna magica.
10/04/2013
Hérissons Prod CD New Release : Couperin's Leçons des Ténèbres with Monique Zanetti, Françoise Masset, Mathieu Dupouy, Jonhatan Dunford & James Holland.
10/04/2013
New programme :
Boston Early Music Festival
Internationales Beethovenfest Bonn
Les Musicales de Normandie
Moritzburg Festival
Ravenna Festival
Robeco Zomerconcerten
Settimane Musicali di Ascona
Sinfonia en Périgord
09/04/2013
The Musicales du Luberon Festival celebrates its 25th season this year !
09/04/2013
A lot of changes at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino : Don Carlo is in concert version, Written on Skin is postponed, ballet Omaggio a Stravinskij is replaced, etc.
09/04/2013
New programme :
Château de Versailles Spectacles
Cully Classique
Festival de l'Orangerie de Sceaux
Festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije
International Istanbul Music Festival
Les Etés de la Danse de Paris
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele
Opera Hedeland
Smetana Open Air Opera Festival
Zürcher Festspiele
08/04/2013
Happy Birthday to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 100 today !
08/04/2013
2013 marks the final year of Vladimir Jurowski as Music Director of the Glydebourne Opera Festival.
05/04/2013
On the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival, Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna and Lang Lang will perform an exceptional Film Music Concert, on la Croisette, on May 25 (Advance booking already opened).
05/04/2013
On Monday, Cecilia Bartoli is back with the Sacrificium recital at Roma's Auditorium Parco della Musica.
05/04/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Classic Openair
Festival de Sablé
Händel Festspiele
Mozartwoche
Quincena Musical
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
04/04/2013
Karita Mattila is performing Poulenc, Debussy, Duparc, Sallinen and Marx, tonight at Wigmore Hall.
04/04/2013
Renée Fleming concludes four-event Carnegie Hall perspectives series with world premiere in April and viennese tribute concert in May.
04/04/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Annecy Classic Festival Classic Openair Classique au vert Drottningholms Slottsteater Festival Baroque de Pontoise Festival International de Musique Baroque de Beaune Festival International de Musique de Besançon et de Franche-Comté Les Nuits Romantiques du Lac du Bourget Musique à l'Emperi Piano aux Jacobins Pianoscope Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay Tiroler Festspiele Wexford Festival Opera
03/04/2013
Sir John Eliot Gardiner performs Stravinski's Apollon musagète and Oedipus Rex, Salle Pleyel, in Cologne, at Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts and at Barbican Center.
03/04/2013
Franz Welser-Möst had a back problem and will not conduct Parsifal at Wiener Staatsoper. Adam Fischer and Dennis Russell Davies replace.
03/04/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Cincinnati Opera
Davos Festival
Festival Castell de Peralada
Festival de la Vézère
Festival de l'Epau
Festival de Musique Ancienne de Lanvellec et du trégor
Festival de Radio-France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Festival de Saint-Riquier
Festival lyrique en Marmandais
Festival Musiques Interdites
Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims
Les Musicales de Bagatelle
Les Nuits du Château de La Moutte
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (summer season)
Ravenna Festival
02/04/2013
Thomas Quasthoff is still performing but now as narrator, at Fribourg Lied Festival for exemple, on 01/06.
02/04/2013 Musiques à la Chabotterie CD New Release : Vivaldi's 6 Flute Concertos performed by Hugo Reyne and La Simphonie du Marais.
02/04/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Festival du Baroque du Pays du Mont-Blanc
Les Semaines Musicales de Quimper
Musik-Festival Grafenegg
Haydn Festspiele
Festival International de Quatuors à Cordes du Luberon
Vaison Danses
29/03/2013
On 19/07, just before the Antonacci/Alagna Recital at les Chorégies d'Orange , a concert will be performed at 6 :00PM by the young Artists from Adami.
29/03/2013
The Philadelphia Orchestra will honor its former music director and conductor laureate, Wolfgang Sawallisch –who passed away February 22, 2013—on its closing concerts (23-25/05).
29/03/2013
Noew programme sur www.music-opera.com
Bachwoche Ansbach
Brühler Schlosskonzerte
Edinburgh International Festival
Festival Chopin
Festival de Nohant
Festival de Saint-Céré
Festival de Saintes
Festival Internacional de Música y Danza
Festival International de Colmar
Festival International Echternach
Festival Musique sur Ciel
George Enescu International Festival
Heures Musicales de l'Abbaye de Lessay
Iford Arts Festival
Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik
Kissinger Sommer
Les Riches Heures Musicales de la Rotonde
Les Soirées Lyriques de Gigondas
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
Lyrique-en-mer, Festival de Belle-Île
MAfestival
Menuhin-Festival Gstaad-Saanenland
Nuits de la Citadelle
Saito Kinen Festival
Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore
Styriarte
Wagner Geneva Festival
28/03/2013
Puccini's La Boheme production at the Chorégies d'Orange Tv broadcasted in 2012 has been awarded best production by the Club audiovisuel de Paris.
28/03/2013
On March 20, Madison Opera has breaking ground on its new home, The Madison Opera Center.
27/03/2013
Edita Gruberova has been awarded the Herbert von Karajan Music Price 2013.
27/03/2013
Nicholas McGegan has been named Principal Guest Conductor of Pasadena Symphony.
26/03/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Verbier Festival & Academy
Bachwoche Ansbach
Brühler Schlosskonzerte
Edinburgh International Festival
Festival Musique sur Ciel
Iford Arts Festival
Kissinger Sommer
Longborouh Festival Opera
Saito Kinen Festival
Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore
26/03/2013
Hélène Grimaud performs the famous Liszt's Sonata in B, at the Luxembourg Philharmonie, on 27/04.
26/03/2013
Congratulations to Soprano Desirée Rancatore who has been awarded the Padua Circolo Della Lirica Prize.
25/03/2013
Michael Tilson Thomas returns to Royal Festival Hall after more than 25 years with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on 09/04.
25/03/2013
At Wiener Konzerthaus on 13 & 17/04, Thomas Hampson performs Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.
22/03/2013
The new Music & Opera Chronical "Istanbul et le Borusan" is on line (only available in French)...
22/03/2013
On 03/04 at Lyon's Chapelle de la Trinité, French Conductor Marc Minkowski performs Mozart's Geart Mass in oc minor with his Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble.
22/03/2013
Legendary dancer Nicolas Le Riche to star alongside Tamara Rojo in le jeune homme et la mort at London Coliseum (18-21 April)
21/03/2013
At London's Southbank Centre on 21 April, acclaimed German tenor Jonas Kaufmann returns with the Philharmonia Orchestra to sing popular operatic arias by Verdi and Wagner.
21/03/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Bergamo Musica Festival
Hollywood Bowl
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Movimentos
Opéra de Vichy
Ravinia Festival
Tanglewood Music Festival
21/03/2013
Even if 2013/14 season marks the end of Paavo Järvi's engagement as Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, he will continue to be closely associated as Conductor Laureate.
20/03/2013
24-year-old pianist Alexej Gorlatch is "SWR2 New Talent" for three years.
20/03/2013
At London's Southbank Centre on 7/04, Khatia Buniatishvili performs Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Paavo Järvi.
20/03/2013
The Köln Philharmonie ad a concert of the great pianist Krystian Zimerman in Beethoven and Brahms.
19/03/2013
Maestro Kurt Masur is forced to cancel his Théâtre des Champs-Elysées concerts in March. Claus Peter Flor and Christoph Eschenbach replace.
19/03/2013
Director change at the Massy Opéra in March, Elsa Rooke directs Rossini's La Cenerentola instead of Charles Roubaud previously announced.
19/03/2013
Violinist Jennifer Pike to substitute for Stefan Jackiw who has had to withdraw due to an arm injury in Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert on April 13.
18/03/2013
From 21/04, the Lausanne Opera presents the rare opera, L'Aiglon from Jacques Ibert and Arthur Honegger after Edmond Rostand's play.
18/03/2013
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform Bach's St. Matthew Passion, under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin (on 28-30/03).
18/03/2013
Bernard Labadie will conduct the New York Philharmonic on modern instruments in Bach's Orchestral Suites and Violin Concertos performed by violinist Isabelle Faust on 22- 23/03.
15/03/2013
Happy birthday to Christa Ludwig, 85 tomorrow !
15/03/2013
In April the Theater Basel will premiered a new production of Idomeneo staged by David Bösch and conducted by Andrea Marcon and Karel Valter
15/03/2013
Bach & Mozart performed at Paris's Salle Gaveau on 22/03 by baroque ensemble Café Zimmermann and great soprano Sophie Karthäuser.
14/03/2013
Stage Director Robert Lepage has been awarded the Glenn Gould Prize.
14/03/2013
On 06/04, mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca makes her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall
14/03/2013
Music Director Riccardo Muti has been awarded Honorary Degree in Naples
13/03/2013
At Salle Pleyel, on 19/04, Denis Matsuev performs a solo recital, Mussorgski, Rachmaninov & Tchaikovki.
13/03/2013
At Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts on 22/04, John Eliot Gardiner conducting the London Symphony Orchestra celebrates Stravinsky with Apollon musagète and Oedipus rex.
13/03/2013
Maestro Eliahu Inbal conducts Wagner's Parsifal at the Vlaamse Opera for the first time.
12/03/2013
On 28/03, at NYC's Carnegie Hall, Iván Fischer leads the Orchestra of St. Luke's in Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
12/03/2013
Famous Mezzo Brigitte Fassbaender has been awarded the Hugo-Wolf-Medaille 2013.
12/03/2013
At Dijon Opéra, a Bachfest from 4 to 7/04 features Concerto Köln, Pierre Hantaï, Andreas Staier, Petra Müllejans, Alexander Melnikov, etc.
11/03/2013
The young artists of William Christie's Jardin des Voix 6th edition, will perform at Paris's Salle Pleyel, on 02/04.
11/03/2013
In May, the LA Phil presents Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Gustavo Dudamel with a stellar cast: Christopher Maltman, Dorothea Röschmann, Malin Christensson, Edwin Crossley-Mercer...
11/03/2013
James Conlon has extended his contract as music director of the Los Angeles Opera through the 2017-18 season.
08/03/2013
The new Music & Opera Chronical Le Rossignol et la Rose is on line (only available in French)...
08/03/2013
The new Stéphane Denève's CD conducting the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR has been released (with Marlis Petersen singinging Poulenc's Stabat Mater).
08/03/2013
Andrés Orozco-Estrada (35) will be the new Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester) from the 2014/15 season.
07/03/2013
Music & Opera offers a job opportunity (Paris based for 3,5 months) for a data capture of all the new 2013-14 season. Thanks to contact us by e-mail or by phone.
07/03/2013
Sacred Music at Notre-Dame de Paris on 24/04, Norah Amsellem performs Jules Massenet's La Vierge conducted by Patrick Fournillier.
07/03/2013
Kenneth Greve continues as Artistic Director of the Finnish National Ballet until 2018.
06/03/2013
Indésens Records CD New Release : Carlo Tessarini's Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord with Marco Pedrona & Marco Montanelli.
06/03/2013
In May with the LA Phil, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro production will have sets designed by architect Jean Nouvel and costumes by Azzedine Alaïa.
06/03/2013
On May 3 at Carnegie Hall, acclaimed pianist Evgeny Kissin performs a recital featuring Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, and Liszt.
05/03/2013
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra signed a partnership with Classical Music Label Deutsche Grammophon.
05/03/2013
At Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Eifman Ballet St Petersbourg performs Rodin et Claudel, from 16/03.
05/03/2013
Pierre Boulez has been awarded the Contemporary Music price from the BBVA Fondation.
04/03/2013
Severin von Eckardstein, Winner of the Queen Elisabeth International Contest 2003, performs tomorrow at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts.
04/03/2013
Pianist Jeremy Denk returns to Carnegie Hall for solo recital of works by Liszt, Bach, Beethoven, and Bartók on March 22.
04/03/2013
Event not to be missed at Paris' Opéra Comique on 03/04 : Leonardo Garcia Alarcón conducts Michelangelo Falvetti's Il Diluvio Universale, oratorio rediscovered in 2010 at Ambronay Festival.
01/03/2013
On 28/06, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden celebrates an Anniversary concert of its 15 Years with Hélène Grimaud and Valéry Gergiev. Book your tickets.
After 12 year as Music Director of the Houston Symphony, Hans Graf conducts his final concerts.
17/05/2013
Belgium violoniste Marc Bouchkov, won the Montréal International Music Contest.
17/05/2013
The finalists of the Geneva Contest for the Composers' Price are: Eunho Chang & Kwang Ho Cho (South Korea), Gabriele Cosmi & Adriano Gaglianello (Italy), Chikako Yamanaka (Japan).
17/05/2013
New programme :
Barbican Centre
BBC Proms
Royal Opera House - Covent Garden
Vlaamse Opera
WDR-Sinfonieorchester Köln
16/05/2013
Hilary Hahn performs Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the Wiener Philharmoniker at Vienna's Konzerthaus, on 25 & 26/5, Sakari Oramo conducts.
16/05/2013
An audience of more than 14.000 visitors attended the first edition of the Aix-en-Provence easter Festival.
16/05/2013
New programme :
Bayerische Staatsoper
Münchner Opernfestspiele
Opéra de Marseille
Opéra de Montréal
15/05/2013
The new 2013 Paris Festival Chopin will be held from 15/06/2013 to 14/07/2013 (season on line here).
15/05/2013
Piotr Anderszewski performs Bach and Schumann on 23/5 at London Southbank Center.
15/05/2013
Another date is added in Lang Lang's scheduled: on 27/5, he will perform at Santiago de Chile's Teatro Municipal.
14/05/2013
Young pianist Rafal Blechacz performs Schumann's concerto with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Harding on 30/05 at Kölner Philharmonie.
14/05/2013
A saxophonist just won the Lepine competition for inventors with a new concept to protect the saxo's reed.
14/05/2013
New programme :
Bayerische Staatsoper
Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart
Münchner Opernfestspiele 2014
Zürcher Festspiele 2014
13/05/2013
On 19/05, Music Director James Levine is back to lead The MET Orchestra in its final concert of the 2012-2013 Carnegie Hall season.
13/05/2013
Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, celebrates Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps 100 birthday, on 15/05 at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts.
13/05/2013
New programme :
Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart
Opéra de Marseille
Opéra de Montréal
Orchestre de Paris
10/05/2013
The International Young Conductors Contests of Besançon Record (from 16 to 21 September 2013) had a peak of registration this year !
10/05/2013
The new 2013 Rome Chamber Music Festival will be held from 09/06/2013 to 13/06/2013 (season on line here)
10/05/2013
New programme :
De Nederlandse Opera
Grand Théâtre de Genève
New York Philharmonic
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
07/05/2013
The new Music & Opera Chronical "La nouvelle Traviata" is on line (only available in French)...
07/05/2013
The new 2013 Opera Holland Park will be held from 04/06/2013 to 31/07/2013 (season on line here)
07/05/2013
New programme :
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Teatro Real
06/05/2013
Daniel Barenboim hurt his back and cancel his apearance with Barbara Frittoli at la Scala, tonight. He had ro cancel too some performances of Götterdämmerung.
06/05/2013
The new 2013 summer season of the Opéra de Vichy will be held from 04/06/2013 to 11/10/2013 (season on line here)
06/05/2013
New programme :
American Ballet Theatre
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
The Los Angeles Philharmonic
03/05/2013
At Madrid's Teatro Real, the great Riccardo Muti conducts Donizetti's Don Pasquale from 13/5.
03/05/2013
The new 2013 Klavier-Festival Ruhr opens tonight and ends on 14/07/2013.
03/05/2013
At Vichy Opera on 4/6, Blandine Staskiewicz remplaces Vivica Genaux in Händel's opera Alessandro with Max Emanuel Cencic in the title-role.
02/05/2013
On 24/6, Rolando Villazón performs Verdi at Toulouse's Halle aux Grains.
02/05/2013
Next season at De Vlaamse Opera, actor Christoph Waltz will make his debut as stage director with Der Rosenkavalier (on 15/12...)
02/05/2013
New programme :
Barbican Centre
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Utah Symphony
Vancouver Opera
30/04/2013
The new Music & Opera Chronical "La nouvelle Traviata" is on line (only available in French)...
30/04/2013
The concert season of the Wiener Mozart Otchester begins tomorrow in Vienna's most beautiful places (Musikverein, Staatsoper,...).
30/04/2013
Jordi Savall residency at the brand new Bordeaux Auditorium, continues on 21, 23 et 25/5.
29/04/2013
Oper Frankfurt received the Opera Award of the 2013 best Opera Company and Salzburg 2013 best Festival Opera.
29/04/2013
Thierry Thieû Niang directs Pauline Viardot's rare opera Cendrillon, at the Opéra de Reims, on 14/5.
29/04/2013
New programme :
The Metropolitan Opera
26/04/2013
Nina Stemme and Jonas Kaufmann received the 2013 Opera Awards for best singers.
26/04/2013
The new 2013 Wolfsburg Movimentos ends on 05/05/2013.
26/04/2013
New programme :
Alte Oper Frankfurt
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Les Grands Interprètes - Toulouse
25/04/2013
Exceptional offer on two of the major productions of the Paris Opera: La Gioconda (7, 20/5) and Götterdämmerung (30/5, 3/6). M&O offers exceptional discount on cat. 1.
25/04/2013
The Aix-en-Provence Festival received two Opera Awards: World Premiere (Benjamin's Written on Skin) and Rediscovered Work (Charpentier's David et Jonathas)
25/04/2013
New programme :
Festival de Musique de Chambre de Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Festival de Musique de Menton
Opéra Comique
Münchner Philharmoniker
24/04/2013
Editions Hortus CD New Release : Händel's intimate theatre by Les Lunes du Cousin Jacques Ensemble.
24/04/2013
The Vancouver Opera will premiere in Canadian the Tan Dun's opera Tea: A Mirror of Soul in just two weeks.
24/04/2013
New programme :
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Settimane Musicali di Ascona
23/04/2013
Ambronay Editions CD New Release : two Mozart's marterpieces, the Requiem & the Clarinet Concerto conducted by talented Maestro Leonardo García Alarcón.
23/04/2013
Artistic director of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic, principal guest conductor of the National Orchestra of Brittany in France, and principal guest in Kanagawa, Sascha Goetzel will conduct his Kuopio Symphony on Thursday for the last time as Principal Conductor.
23/04/2013
New programme :
Münchner Philharmoniker
Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden - Semperoper
Singapore International Piano Festival
22/04/2013
The next Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France has been named : Mikko Franck will be in Paris from the 2015 season.
22/04/2013
Tenor Bryan Hymel received the eighth annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers.
22/04/2013
New programme :
Festspielhaus und Festspiele Baden-Baden
Opernhaus Zürich
19/04/2013
From June 9 to 13 will be held at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, the Rome Chamber Music Festival.
19/04/2013
On June 28, for 15 years the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, a Gala Concert with Hélène Grimaud and Valery Gergiev.
18/04/2013
Sophie Koch is the 2013 Godmother of the French event Tous à l'Opéra, on May 11-12
Anne Sofie von Otter is in recital at the Geneva' Grand Theatre (May 12th).
17/04/2013
The International Piano Festival of La Roque d'Anthéron season outdors at Marseille's Théâtre de La Criée continue on 21/05 with David Kadouch and Edgar Moreau in recital.
17/04/2013
On 10/06 at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts, Frank Strobel conducts the Brussels Philarmonic with Kubrick's materpiece « 2001, A Space Odyssey » on the screen.
16/04/2013
RIP Sir Colin Davis.
16/04/2013
Helmuth Rilling (80, this season) will pass the Oregon Bach Festival's leadership on to Matthew Halls, his successor.
16/04/2013
New programme :
Salle Pleyel
Wiener Staatsoper
15/04/2013
Irish-born mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught makes her premiere recital tour to North America this spring.
15/04/2013
The Summer Dance Festival at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet invites the Wiener Staatsballett directed by Manuel Legris, for 21 performances.
15/04/2013
New programme :
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
12/04/2013
Major event tonight at Wiener Staatsoper with the premiere of Eugen Onegin conducted by Andris Nelsons and starring Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky !
12/04/2013
A new concert is scheduled on 18/06 in Toulouse: great pianist Krystian Zimerman in recital.
12/04/2013
New programme :
Aspen Music Festival
Audi Sommerkonzerte
Bolzano Festival Bozen
Carinthischer Sommer
Festival du Périgord Noir
Festival Wiltz
Lincoln Center Festival
Mostly Mozart
Musiciennes à Ouessant
Musiques à la Chabotterie
operklosterneuburg
Rome Chamber Music Festival
Saoû chante Mozart
Settimane Musicali Meranesi
Verdi Festival Parma
11/04/2013
On May 11-12, the French Opera Houses open its doors. For example, at Reims Opéra, audience will be invited to wear opera costumes!
11/04/2013
Three days of celebration events (2-4 May) for the opening of the new Mariinsky II, conducted by Valery Gergiev with Anna Netrebko, etc.
11/04/2013
New programme :
Bard Music Festival
Château de Versailles Spectacles (Festival)
Festival Chopin
Festival de Musique Classique Montreux Vevey, Septembre Musical
Festival de Musique de la Chaise-Dieu
Festival de Musique de Toulon
Festival della Valle d'Itria
Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi
Festival International de l'Abbaye de Sylvanès
Festival Pergolesi Spontini
Gent Festival van Vlaanderen
Klavier-Festival Ruhr
Les Jardins Musicaux
Opera Holland Park
Opernfestspiele in der Stiftsruine Bad Hersfeld
Pafos Aphrodite Festival Cyprus
Rossini in Wildbad - Das Belcanto-Festival
See Festspiele Berlin
Septembre Musical de l'Orne
Settimana Musicale Senese
SOLsberg Festival
Taormina Arte
Terme di Caracalla
10/04/2013
On the occasion of the Watteau concert cycle in Brussels, on 19/04, Betrand Cuiller performs Couperin with image projection from a lanterna magica.
10/04/2013
Hérissons Prod CD New Release : Couperin's Leçons des Ténèbres with Monique Zanetti, Françoise Masset, Mathieu Dupouy, Jonhatan Dunford & James Holland.
10/04/2013
New programme :
Boston Early Music Festival
Internationales Beethovenfest Bonn
Les Musicales de Normandie
Moritzburg Festival
Ravenna Festival
Robeco Zomerconcerten
Settimane Musicali di Ascona
Sinfonia en Périgord
09/04/2013
The Musicales du Luberon Festival celebrates its 25th season this year !
09/04/2013
A lot of changes at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino : Don Carlo is in concert version, Written on Skin is postponed, ballet Omaggio a Stravinskij is replaced, etc.
09/04/2013
New programme :
Château de Versailles Spectacles
Cully Classique
Festival de l'Orangerie de Sceaux
Festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije
International Istanbul Music Festival
Les Etés de la Danse de Paris
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele
Opera Hedeland
Smetana Open Air Opera Festival
Zürcher Festspiele
08/04/2013
Happy Birthday to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 100 today !
08/04/2013
2013 marks the final year of Vladimir Jurowski as Music Director of the Glydebourne Opera Festival.
05/04/2013
On the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival, Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna and Lang Lang will perform an exceptional Film Music Concert, on la Croisette, on May 25 (Advance booking already opened).
05/04/2013
On Monday, Cecilia Bartoli is back with the Sacrificium recital at Roma's Auditorium Parco della Musica.
05/04/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Classic Openair
Festival de Sablé
Händel Festspiele
Mozartwoche
Quincena Musical
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
04/04/2013
Karita Mattila is performing Poulenc, Debussy, Duparc, Sallinen and Marx, tonight at Wigmore Hall.
04/04/2013
Renée Fleming concludes four-event Carnegie Hall perspectives series with world premiere in April and viennese tribute concert in May.
04/04/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Annecy Classic Festival Classic Openair Classique au vert Drottningholms Slottsteater Festival Baroque de Pontoise Festival International de Musique Baroque de Beaune Festival International de Musique de Besançon et de Franche-Comté Les Nuits Romantiques du Lac du Bourget Musique à l'Emperi Piano aux Jacobins Pianoscope Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay Tiroler Festspiele Wexford Festival Opera
03/04/2013
Sir John Eliot Gardiner performs Stravinski's Apollon musagète and Oedipus Rex, Salle Pleyel, in Cologne, at Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts and at Barbican Center.
03/04/2013
Franz Welser-Möst had a back problem and will not conduct Parsifal at Wiener Staatsoper. Adam Fischer and Dennis Russell Davies replace.
03/04/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Cincinnati Opera
Davos Festival
Festival Castell de Peralada
Festival de la Vézère
Festival de l'Epau
Festival de Musique Ancienne de Lanvellec et du trégor
Festival de Radio-France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Festival de Saint-Riquier
Festival lyrique en Marmandais
Festival Musiques Interdites
Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims
Les Musicales de Bagatelle
Les Nuits du Château de La Moutte
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (summer season)
Ravenna Festival
02/04/2013
Thomas Quasthoff is still performing but now as narrator, at Fribourg Lied Festival for exemple, on 01/06.
02/04/2013 Musiques à la Chabotterie CD New Release : Vivaldi's 6 Flute Concertos performed by Hugo Reyne and La Simphonie du Marais.
02/04/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Festival du Baroque du Pays du Mont-Blanc
Les Semaines Musicales de Quimper
Musik-Festival Grafenegg
Haydn Festspiele
Festival International de Quatuors à Cordes du Luberon
Vaison Danses
29/03/2013
On 19/07, just before the Antonacci/Alagna Recital at les Chorégies d'Orange , a concert will be performed at 6 :00PM by the young Artists from Adami.
29/03/2013
The Philadelphia Orchestra will honor its former music director and conductor laureate, Wolfgang Sawallisch –who passed away February 22, 2013—on its closing concerts (23-25/05).
29/03/2013
Noew programme sur www.music-opera.com
Bachwoche Ansbach
Brühler Schlosskonzerte
Edinburgh International Festival
Festival Chopin
Festival de Nohant
Festival de Saint-Céré
Festival de Saintes
Festival Internacional de Música y Danza
Festival International de Colmar
Festival International Echternach
Festival Musique sur Ciel
George Enescu International Festival
Heures Musicales de l'Abbaye de Lessay
Iford Arts Festival
Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik
Kissinger Sommer
Les Riches Heures Musicales de la Rotonde
Les Soirées Lyriques de Gigondas
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
Lyrique-en-mer, Festival de Belle-Île
MAfestival
Menuhin-Festival Gstaad-Saanenland
Nuits de la Citadelle
Saito Kinen Festival
Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore
Styriarte
Wagner Geneva Festival
28/03/2013
Puccini's La Boheme production at the Chorégies d'Orange Tv broadcasted in 2012 has been awarded best production by the Club audiovisuel de Paris.
28/03/2013
On March 20, Madison Opera has breaking ground on its new home, The Madison Opera Center.
27/03/2013
Edita Gruberova has been awarded the Herbert von Karajan Music Price 2013.
27/03/2013
Nicholas McGegan has been named Principal Guest Conductor of Pasadena Symphony.
26/03/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Verbier Festival & Academy
Bachwoche Ansbach
Brühler Schlosskonzerte
Edinburgh International Festival
Festival Musique sur Ciel
Iford Arts Festival
Kissinger Sommer
Longborouh Festival Opera
Saito Kinen Festival
Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore
26/03/2013
Hélène Grimaud performs the famous Liszt's Sonata in B, at the Luxembourg Philharmonie, on 27/04.
26/03/2013
Congratulations to Soprano Desirée Rancatore who has been awarded the Padua Circolo Della Lirica Prize.
25/03/2013
Michael Tilson Thomas returns to Royal Festival Hall after more than 25 years with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on 09/04.
25/03/2013
At Wiener Konzerthaus on 13 & 17/04, Thomas Hampson performs Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.
22/03/2013
The new Music & Opera Chronical "Istanbul et le Borusan" is on line (only available in French)...
22/03/2013
On 03/04 at Lyon's Chapelle de la Trinité, French Conductor Marc Minkowski performs Mozart's Geart Mass in oc minor with his Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble.
22/03/2013
Legendary dancer Nicolas Le Riche to star alongside Tamara Rojo in le jeune homme et la mort at London Coliseum (18-21 April)
21/03/2013
At London's Southbank Centre on 21 April, acclaimed German tenor Jonas Kaufmann returns with the Philharmonia Orchestra to sing popular operatic arias by Verdi and Wagner.
21/03/2013
New programme on www.music-opera.com
Bergamo Musica Festival
Hollywood Bowl
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Movimentos
Opéra de Vichy
Ravinia Festival
Tanglewood Music Festival
21/03/2013
Even if 2013/14 season marks the end of Paavo Järvi's engagement as Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, he will continue to be closely associated as Conductor Laureate.
20/03/2013
24-year-old pianist Alexej Gorlatch is "SWR2 New Talent" for three years.
20/03/2013
At London's Southbank Centre on 7/04, Khatia Buniatishvili performs Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Paavo Järvi.
20/03/2013
The Köln Philharmonie ad a concert of the great pianist Krystian Zimerman in Beethoven and Brahms.
19/03/2013
Maestro Kurt Masur is forced to cancel his Théâtre des Champs-Elysées concerts in March. Claus Peter Flor and Christoph Eschenbach replace.
19/03/2013
Director change at the Massy Opéra in March, Elsa Rooke directs Rossini's La Cenerentola instead of Charles Roubaud previously announced.
19/03/2013
Violinist Jennifer Pike to substitute for Stefan Jackiw who has had to withdraw due to an arm injury in Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert on April 13.
18/03/2013
From 21/04, the Lausanne Opera presents the rare opera, L'Aiglon from Jacques Ibert and Arthur Honegger after Edmond Rostand's play.
18/03/2013
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform Bach's St. Matthew Passion, under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin (on 28-30/03).
18/03/2013
Bernard Labadie will conduct the New York Philharmonic on modern instruments in Bach's Orchestral Suites and Violin Concertos performed by violinist Isabelle Faust on 22- 23/03.
15/03/2013
Happy birthday to Christa Ludwig, 85 tomorrow !
15/03/2013
In April the Theater Basel will premiered a new production of Idomeneo staged by David Bösch and conducted by Andrea Marcon and Karel Valter
15/03/2013
Bach & Mozart performed at Paris's Salle Gaveau on 22/03 by baroque ensemble Café Zimmermann and great soprano Sophie Karthäuser.
14/03/2013
Stage Director Robert Lepage has been awarded the Glenn Gould Prize.
14/03/2013
On 06/04, mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca makes her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall
14/03/2013
Music Director Riccardo Muti has been awarded Honorary Degree in Naples
13/03/2013
At Salle Pleyel, on 19/04, Denis Matsuev performs a solo recital, Mussorgski, Rachmaninov & Tchaikovki.
13/03/2013
At Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts on 22/04, John Eliot Gardiner conducting the London Symphony Orchestra celebrates Stravinsky with Apollon musagète and Oedipus rex.
13/03/2013
Maestro Eliahu Inbal conducts Wagner's Parsifal at the Vlaamse Opera for the first time.
12/03/2013
On 28/03, at NYC's Carnegie Hall, Iván Fischer leads the Orchestra of St. Luke's in Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
12/03/2013
Famous Mezzo Brigitte Fassbaender has been awarded the Hugo-Wolf-Medaille 2013.
12/03/2013
At Dijon Opéra, a Bachfest from 4 to 7/04 features Concerto Köln, Pierre Hantaï, Andreas Staier, Petra Müllejans, Alexander Melnikov, etc.
11/03/2013
The young artists of William Christie's Jardin des Voix 6th edition, will perform at Paris's Salle Pleyel, on 02/04.
11/03/2013
In May, the LA Phil presents Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Gustavo Dudamel with a stellar cast: Christopher Maltman, Dorothea Röschmann, Malin Christensson, Edwin Crossley-Mercer...
11/03/2013
James Conlon has extended his contract as music director of the Los Angeles Opera through the 2017-18 season.
08/03/2013
The new Music & Opera Chronical Le Rossignol et la Rose is on line (only available in French)...
08/03/2013
The new Stéphane Denève's CD conducting the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR has been released (with Marlis Petersen singinging Poulenc's Stabat Mater).
08/03/2013
Andrés Orozco-Estrada (35) will be the new Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester) from the 2014/15 season.
07/03/2013
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07/03/2013
Sacred Music at Notre-Dame de Paris on 24/04, Norah Amsellem performs Jules Massenet's La Vierge conducted by Patrick Fournillier.
07/03/2013
Kenneth Greve continues as Artistic Director of the Finnish National Ballet until 2018.
06/03/2013
Indésens Records CD New Release : Carlo Tessarini's Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord with Marco Pedrona & Marco Montanelli.
06/03/2013
In May with the LA Phil, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro production will have sets designed by architect Jean Nouvel and costumes by Azzedine Alaïa.
06/03/2013
On May 3 at Carnegie Hall, acclaimed pianist Evgeny Kissin performs a recital featuring Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, and Liszt.
05/03/2013
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra signed a partnership with Classical Music Label Deutsche Grammophon.
05/03/2013
At Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Eifman Ballet St Petersbourg performs Rodin et Claudel, from 16/03.
05/03/2013
Pierre Boulez has been awarded the Contemporary Music price from the BBVA Fondation.
04/03/2013
Severin von Eckardstein, Winner of the Queen Elisabeth International Contest 2003, performs tomorrow at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts.
04/03/2013
Pianist Jeremy Denk returns to Carnegie Hall for solo recital of works by Liszt, Bach, Beethoven, and Bartók on March 22.
04/03/2013
Event not to be missed at Paris' Opéra Comique on 03/04 : Leonardo Garcia Alarcón conducts Michelangelo Falvetti's Il Diluvio Universale, oratorio rediscovered in 2010 at Ambronay Festival.
01/03/2013
On 28/06, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden celebrates an Anniversary concert of its 15 Years with Hélène Grimaud and Valéry Gergiev. Book your tickets.
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