For the Salzburg Festival, 2016 will be the second and final year of transition from Alexander Pereira, who left to go to La Scala, and Markus Hinterhäuser, appointed to restore some of the dynamism that was stifled by the constant changes in direction over the past fifteen years.The opera programme appears to be quite a cautious...
Alexander Pereira has already left, and Markus Hinterhäuser has not yet arrived:the Salzburg Festival, between two seasoned directors, is going through a two-year transition. This first year between the two directors, which is also a return to financial reason after the sumptuousness of Pereira’s brief term, is seeing...
In 1993, just twenty years ago, Plácido Domingo sponsored the first edition of the Operalia competition (then presented as “the Olympic Games of Opera”) with a mighty ambition: first, to demonstrate that “opera is a living art that will never die” by focusing on “young performers of all...
Each year the Salzburg Festival is the main opera event of the summer season.The 2014 edition will be the last one to be directed by Alexander Pereira (who will take over the helm at La Scala in 2015), since his contract was shortened by two years by the formidable and unyielding president of the Festival, Mrs Helga Rabl-Stadler....
As the oldest French opera festival, Les Chorégies d'Orange, whose 2013 edition celebrating the Verdi/Wagner bicentenary was hit by threatening weather and the cancellation of the second evening of the Vaisseau fantôme and the concert by Roberto Alagna (a regular for more than twenty years at Les Chorégies), is...
Traditionally dedicated primarily to Mozart, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence has gradually expanded its programming to establish itself as one of the key international events for opera lovers – and as such in 2013 the Festival boasted some 84,600 spectators (for a 99.5% seat occupancy rate for opera), many of them...
