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The Flying Dutchman for the impressive St. Margarethen Festival 2025
For its 2025 edition, the Steinbruch Opera Festival in Austria will be staging a new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, starring Elisabeth Teige and George Gagnidze. Director Philipp M. Krenn intends to recreate a Norwegian fjord on the gigantic stage of the St. Margarethen quarries. The limestone blocks in the impressive quarry at St Margarethen in Austria have been quarried for almost 2,000 years – the Romans were already using them. In 1996, however, the site...
Published onthe 16 of November
Maria Agresta withdraws from La Forza del Destino, Anna Pirozzi replaces her at the Liceu
Next November at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Maria Agresta was supposed to sing Donna Leonora in La Forza del Destino for the first time on stage. She has decided not to do so, believing that the time has not yet come. She will be replaced by Anna Pirozzi. From 9th to 19th November, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu will be staging Verdi's La Forza del Destino, in a production by director Jean-Claude Auvray, which Paris audiences have already seen in 2011 and will see again in...
Published onthe 11 of October
Bayreuth Festival details its 2025 programme
As its 112th edition draws to a close, the Bayreuth Festival 2025 reveals its programme: a new production of Die Meistersinger by Matthias Davids, the return of Christian Thielemann to conduct Lohengrin, and revivals of Tristan und Isolde by Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Parsifal by Jay Scheib and Valentin Schwarz's Ring conducted by Simone Young. The 112th edition of the Bayreuth Festival has just come to an end and it can boast a return of the public: unlike last year, the...
Published onthe 28 of August
Lise Davidsen records Wagner's The Flying Dutchman
For several years now, Lise Davidsen has been blossoming in the Wagnerian repertoire. At the Oslo Opera, she sang Senta in the concert version of The Flying Dutchman alongside Gerald Finley and Stanislas de Barbeyrac. The evening will be recorded for the public. Lise Davidsen has now established herself as one of the rising stars of the opera stage, and every engagement of the Norwegian soprano arouses at least a certain amount of curiosity – after distinguishing herself in the...
Published onthe 22 of August
Hymn to Apollo performed by Benjamin Bernheim at the Closing Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
As part of the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Franco-Swiss tenor Benjamin Bernheim performed a modernised version of L'Hymne à Apollon. This ancient Greek song was discovered in Delphi in 1893 and is one of the few surviving examples of ancient Greek music. For the last two weeks, Paris has been living to the rhythm of the 2024 Olympic Games. This sporting and festive chapter came to an end last night at the end of a Closing Ceremony that included several...
Published onthe 12 of August
Bastille Day “Concert de Paris 2024”: artists, programme and broadcasts
Before the traditional Bastille Day fireworks on 14 July, the Concert de Paris has become a must for music lovers. This year, Nadine Sierra, Fatma Saïd, Adèle Charvet and Pene Pati will perform “great classical works on the theme of Olympism” in the square in front of the Paris City Hall. The Concert de Paris has become an eagerly awaited event for music lovers, bringing together instrumentalists and opera singers every year on Bastille Day, 14 July, for an...
Published onthe 12 of July
Interview with Corinne Winters, double Iphigénie at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Soprano Corinne Winters' career sounds like a series of challenges, the latest of which is a Gluck double bill at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2024, where she will sing the title role in both Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride on the same night with maestra Emmanuelle Haïm and director Dmitri Tcherniakov. After a glorious debut as Katja Kabanova at the Salzburg Festival in 2022, she took over the Janáček character in Geneva,...
Published onthe 25 of June
Turandot with Anna Netrebko to be broadcast from La Scala in Milan
From 25 June, Milan's La Scala will be staging a new production of Turandot by director Davide Livermore, starring Anna Netrebko in the role of the Ice Princess. The production, which will be broadcast live on 4 July on ScalaTV and Arte Concert, is generating a certain amount of curiosity. As part of the commemoration of the centenary of Puccini's death, La Scala has programmed two new productions of the composer's operas this season. The first was La Rondine, performed...
Published onthe 22 of June
Death of Jodie Devos, aged 35
The young Belgian soprano Jodie Devos died of cancer on Sunday at the age of 35. Her death comes after a sunny young career that left a lasting impression on all those who saw her perform. Astonishment and deep sadness. These are the words that come to mind when reading the news from Intermezzo, the agency of Belgian soprano Jodie Devos, “who died in Paris on 16th June, surrounded by her family and close friends, at the age of 35, from breast cancer, which had forced her to...
Published onthe 16 of June
Missy Mazzoli's The Listeners opens Opera Philadelphia's 2024-25 season
For its 2024-25 season, Opera Philadelphia welcomes the American premiere of Missy Mazzoli's opera The Listeners (following its premiere at Oslo Opera in 2022), as well as Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne's rare comic opera L'Amant Anonyme. Philadelphia may not be the most vibrant of American cities when it comes to opera, but its Academy of Music (home of the Opera Company of Philadelphia) boasts the oldest opera house within the United States to be continuously...
Published onthe 13 of February
Ludovic Tézier is awarded the Prize Piero Cappuccilli
Following the performance of La Traviata at the Arena di Verona on 26 August, Ludovic Tézier was awarded the Premio internazionale Piero Cappuccilli (the Prize Piero Cappuccilli), named after the Italian baritone Piero Cappuccilli, an incomparable artist in the Verdian repertoire who sadly died in July 2005. The award was presented to the French baritone by the singer's daughter, Patrizia, to the applause of all the performers in the production. Writing on his Instagram...
Published onthe 29 of August
Renée Fleming: “I'm happy to see people embracing new music and new works that are relevant”
In 2017, the Marschallin in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera was supposed to be Renée Fleming's last opera role, after a career of countless unforgettable performances. In addition to numerous recordings and concerts - including the art song programme with pianist Evgeny Kissin this summer at the Verbier Festival and the Salzburg Summer Festival -, the soprano diva has not only appeared in musicals (The Light in the Piazza, Carousel), but...
Published onthe 02 of August