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
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 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
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 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
In this staging full of comic effects, jokes and gags, the Austrian mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz stands out from a very homogeneous scenic set: Unveiled in 2008 at the Teatro Comunale in Bern, then revived a Oviedo it’s at Tel-Avivthe staging of Mariame Clemente from Barber shop from Rossini (here taken from Jean-Michel Criqui) continues to … Read more
At the opening of the new season of “Baroque on stage”, Angers-Nantes Opéra and La Cité des Congrès program Alcina by Handel in concert version, under the direction of Christophe Rousset at the helm of his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques and talented soloists. With the role of the protagonist, the soprano Karina Gauvin he captures … Read more
Mozart’s Idomeneo brought by a subtle cast takes New York viewers into a universe that mixes aesthetics and inspirations, traveling between worlds and times in the company of Greco-Roman gods, on the verge of superproduction. The Metropolitan Opera House in New York shows once again its taste for blends and classicisms, in particular with this … Read more
Counter-tenor William Shelton accompanied by theorbist Léo Brunet brings to life some outstanding female figures of Venetian Baroque music of the 17th and 18th centuries, through an educational concert retracing the life of composer Antonia Bembo. It is likely that few people (apart from our readers), even among lovers of baroque music, have ever heard … Read more