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Chorégies d'Orange 2025: two Verdi operas and Mozart's Requiem
After several seasons in the red, the Chorégies d'Orange festival is showing financial improvement and new ambitions: the 2025 edition of the French festival promises Il Trovatore and La Forza del destino, as well as a Mozart Requiem and Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. Not least because of financial difficulties, recent editions of the Chorégies d'Orange have had to make do with a reduced programme - instead of the traditional two operas performed each...
Published onthe 04 of March
The Vienna State Opera or the profitability of culture
Is culture profitable for public finances? According to the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, the public subsidies granted to the Vienna State Opera are fully offset by the tax and economic benefits generated by its activities. In view of inflation, however, Bogdan Roščić argues for an increase. Is culture a burden on public finances? At first glance, perhaps, but the financial balance sheet is more favourable when the economic spin-offs generated by cultural actors are included in...
Published onthe 14 of January
An “Anniversary Gala” celebrating 150 years of the Palais Garnier
The Palais Garnier was inaugurated on 5 January 1875 in Paris, France. In 2025, the Opéra national de Paris will celebrate the 150th anniversary of this emblematic Parisian building with an Anniversary Gala on 24 January that will bring together the artists of the Opéra national de Paris. The gala will be broadcast on French television. In December 1858, Emperor Napoleon III decided to build a new opera house in Paris. A few years later, a young, almost unknown...
Published onthe 19 of December
Bayreuth Festival 2026: seven operas instead of eleven for the 150th anniversary
For its 150th anniversary in 2026, the Bayreuth Festival had planned to present eleven operas by Wagner. However, due to budget constraints, the festival has scaled back its ambitions and will finally settle for seven of the composer's works, including a new tetralogy. In 2026, the Bayreuth Festival will celebrate its 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Katharina Wagner has promised a programme that will include all ten of Richard Wagner's major operas (from The Flying...
Published onthe 07 of December
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
Christian Thielemann gives up the Ring at La Scala, Simone Young replaces him
At the end of October, La Scala will be staging a new Ring by Wagner (for the first time in ten years), and Christian Thielemann was to conduct it. He has had to withdraw for medical reasons. He will be replaced by Simone Young, the first woman to conduct the Ring at La Scala. From the end of October this year, La Scala in Milan will launch a new Wagner Tetralogy. A new production of Das Rheingold by David McVicar will open this new Wagner cycle - followed by Die Walküre and...
Published onthe 15 of September
Lotte de Beer reappointed as director of the Vienna Volksoper
Lotte de Beer, artistic director of the Vienna Volksoper since 2022, has helped change the image of Vienna's "popular and folk" opera house by "trying new things". The public has responded. Her mandate has been extended until 2032. The programming of an opera house takes place over a long period of time: the choice of productions and the engagement of directors and artists are orchestrated years in advance, implying that the artistic directors of an opera house...
Published onthe 03 of July
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
Conversation with Giampaolo Bisanti, the new Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège Music Director
Italian conductor Giampaolo Bisanti rightfully defines himself as a “busy man”. His agenda will get even fuller with his new Music Director position at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège from next season, during which he will participate in two staged opera productions – Bellini’s La Sonnambula and Verdi’s Rare Alzira – and prestigious recitals with Plácido Domingo (accompanied for the occasion by Davinia Rodríguez)...
Published onthe 20 of June
Zurich Opera: Matthias Schulz appointed as new director
MATTHIAS SCHULZ APPOINTED AS NEW DIRECTOR SUCCESSOR TO ANDREAS HOMOKI AS OF 2025 HAS BEEN FOUND Matthias Schulz was introduced as new artistic director of the Opernhaus Zürich by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Opernhaus Zürich AG, Markus Notter, at a press conference earlier today. The 44-year-old is to succeed Andreas Homoki, who has been heading the house since 2012 and is stepping down from the post by his choice in 2025. Matthias Schulz, current...
Published onthe 07 of December
Interview with Antonio Pappano: “It is very important that the music sounds inevitable”
Who doesn’t know Antonio Pappano, current Music Director of the Royal Opera House in London and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome? He was performing in July at the Verbier Festival as a conductor in two symphonic concerts with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and as a pianist in a music chamber programme along with other stars. He explains how he sees music and conducting, and reveals the decisions that take place behind-the-scenes to build an...
Published onthe 19 of August
Leading Opera Houses Ensure the Tenor Viñas International Singing Contest
UNDETERRED BY THE PANDEMIC, THE WORLD’S LEADING OPERA HOUSES JOIN FORCES TO ENSURE THE TENOR VIÑAS INTERNATIONAL SINGING CONTEST CAN GO AHEAD The preliminary auditions were conducted on the basis of video recordings sent to opera houses in Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, New York and Paris. In the next stage, 125 of the 477 singers who entered the contest will go through to the second round in person, at the Gran Teatre del...
Published onthe 28 of December