Bizet’s Carmen is broadcast in Pathé cinemas live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in a production by Carrie Cracknell. Aigul Akhmetshina and Piotr Beczala as well as Kyle Ketelsen perform the tragic-love trio under the direction of Daniele Rustioni. The cinematographic retransmission appears careful and thought out with the stage action (specific … Read more
Al-Marsad newspaper: A circulating video clip documented the moment one person accidentally injured another who was sitting next to him at a music and dance party with a machine gun bullet in Yemen. The video showed the man, who was storing the drug khat in his mouth, getting up from his place during the celebration … Read more
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who was to conduct both parts of Berlioz’s Les Troyens at La Côte-Saint-André, left the production after the first part yesterday. He is replaced this evening by his assistant Dinis Sousa. An altercation with a soloist is mentioned. The Trojans is the highlight of the Berlioz Festival this year, due to … Read more
The able Egyptian artist, Safaa Abu Al-Saud, will return to perform concerts this Friday evening, in Cairo, through a concert in favor of one of the global campaigns to support heart patients, cancer and people with special needs, as she was chosen to be her ambassador in the Arab region. Her official song is also … Read more
The second edition of the Festival Les Étoiles du Classique will be held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye from June 29 to July 2, 2023. To discover, 12 concerts and 200 young talents gathered around Karine Deshayes and Jean-Claude Casadesus: The event aims to promote the work and talent of young musicians, the majority of whom come from … Read more
The Abu Bakr Salem Theater in Riyadh witnessed a distinguished musical night, which lasted until the early hours of Friday morning, under the title “Masterpieces of Al-Muji” in honor of the history and name of the late Egyptian musician, Muhammad Al-Muji. The concert was joyful for me, but in this clip, I cried my tears, … Read more
Verdi’s Nabucco is back at the Opéra de Marseille after a 28-year absence, played by Juan Jesús Rodríguez, under the direction of Paolo Arrivabeni, in a staging by Jean-Christophe Mast, produced by the Opéra de Saint -Etienne. The mythical chorus of this opera, the “Va Thought” which is still regularly used to pass messages inside … Read more
The closing ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast live in cinemas for the first time across the UK. Liverpool will host the ceremony on Saturday, May 13, following two semi-final concerts earlier that week. The organizers say that showing the ceremony in cinemas will encourage wearing luxurious clothes and singing. Personal tickets … Read more
The Opéra National du Rhin offers with its Opera Studio a concert version of Candide by Leonard Bernstein to the enthusiastic public gathered in the University Palace of Strasbourg, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Carte culture system: Two forewords introduce the situation. The first, that held by Guillaume Bidar, bassoonist of … Read more
The Opéra Grand Avignon presents a show for children (and adults) with the duo FrICTIONs, bringing together contralto Sarah Laulan and tenor-accordionist Rémy Poulakis, in an unbridled suite of songs around fairy tales, entitled “Contes Défaits ”, at the Théâtre de L’Autre Scène in Vedène. The show is a suite of original and current songs, … Read more