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Musiques en fête 2025 will feature Ermonela Jaho, Benjamin Bernheim and Arturo Chacón-Cruz

The 15th edition of Musiques en fête, dedicated to cinema, will take place on 20 June 2025, starting at 9 p.m. (French time). Famous opera arias will alternate with the most beautiful film scores, performed by twenty opera singers and over 150 musicians. Held every June, Musiques en fête has become a popular event in France dedicated to classical music, kicking off the music festival season. For one evening at the Théâtre Antique d'Orange, the programme...

Published onthe 07 of June
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Marina Viotti gives up Octavian at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Niamh O'Sullivan replaces her

Next month, Marina Viotti was due to make her debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. She will be replaced by Irish mezzo Niamh O'Sullivan. The 2024/25 season at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, France, was to be an opportunity for Marina Viotti to take on two new roles: her first Charlotte in Werther, a role in which the mezzo has just delighted audiences and critics alongside Benjamin...

Published onthe 07 of April
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Interview with Marina Rebeka: “stay true to yourself”

After her debut at the Opéra national de Paris in 2018 in one of her signature roles, Violetta in La traviata, the soprano Marina Rebeka finally returns to the Parisian opera house for the five-act version of Verdi's Don Carlos (in French). She is thus continuing a solid career built around Rossini, bel canto and Verdi, although the French repertoire (Massenet's Thaïs and Gounod's Faust) and verismo (from Puccini onwards) are also beginning to play an...

Published onthe 19 of March
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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
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Jonas Kaufmann: “I have no plans to start singing baritone roles now”

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is currently singing the role of Canio in Pagliacci at the Vienna Opera. He is also singing Tonio's prologue, which is usually sung by a baritone. Should we see this as a career and repertoire development for the tenor? Not yet. The Vienna State Opera is currently reviving the Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci diptych in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's historic production. Although the production has been well known since its premiere 39 years ago, this revival is...

Published onthe 24 of January
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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