Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the temple of opera and the most famous opera house in the world along with the Palais Garnier, has just been given new spaces. As part of the overall reorganisation project, which began in the 2000s with the restoration and extension of the eighteenth-century hall, a new tower has just been […]

For three seasons now in Paris, the Opera a Palazzo troupe has been bringing intense emotions to its audiences, welcoming them to the most beautiful venues in the capital. After the Hôtel Dosne-Thiers in the Nouvelle Athènes and the Musée Jacquemart-André, it is now the doors of the Hôtel de La Monnaie, on the Quai […]

From 6 to 29 November 2023, the Opéra Bastille once again welcomes the aesthetic universe of Bob Wilson with his production of Puccini’s Turandot. For the occasion, two sopranos were to alternate on stage. While Tamara Wilson will make her Paris Opéra debut before playing Beatrice di Tenda in Bellini’s opera on the same stage […]

María de Buenos Aires, Ástor Piazzolla‘s tango opera combining song, theatre and dance, is on at the Grand Théâtre de Genève from 27 October to 5 November 2023, directed by Ticino-born Daniele Finzi Pasca. Soprano Raquel Camarinha performs as Maria opposite Inés Cuello, a great tango voice, in the male role of Payador. The musical […]

The suspense has just been lifted and the evening promises to be even more thrilling. While the Opéra national de Paris has been carefully guarding the names of the artists invited to the Gala tribute to Maria Callas on 2 December 2023, the 100th anniversary of her birth, it has just unveiled the names of […]

Rusalka, Dvořák‘s superb but rarely performed masterpiece, is the title chosen for the second edition of Opéras au Sud, the regional initiative for opera production. Thanks to a co-production with Arsud, the Opéras de Marseille, Nice, Toulon and with the support of the City of Avignon, Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil‘s production will premiere on […]

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 […]

After the Paris premiere of the violin concerto entitled “Le sommeil a pris ton empreinte”, Berlin is preparing to welcome the work by French composer Camille Pépin for the very first time. Conductor Robin Ticciati leads the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the German premiere on 15 October 2023 at the Philharmonie with, as in Paris, […]

A major event of the season, a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen is on the cards, with the first episode of Wagner’s tetralogy on show from 24 October to 9 November 2023. La Monnaie de Bruxelles is decked out in gold with Das Rheingold, conducted as it should be by its musical director […]

While the competition is in full swing at the Concours Voix Nouvelles, which has revealed Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout, Karine Deshayes, Anne Catherine Gillet, Eva Zaicik, etc., one candidate has already made a name for herself by winning first prize in another competition. Lauranne Oliva, a 23-year-old French soprano, has just won first prize and […]