Having been forced to take a break last year, the festival has a rediscovered work by the important Italian composer Alfredo Catalani on this year’s programme: Edmea.
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Conductor Raphaël Pichon and director Cyril Teste team up to bring Beethoven’s Fidelio to the stage of the Opéra Comique.
Three one-act operas, three complementary registers, three different locations and three ‘colours’, as Puccini adds a social dimension to this tripartite structure.
The Semperoper’s new staging of Aida is an exciting debut right across the board.
From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival.
Opéra national du Rhin is paying homage to The Birds by staging the work‘s first ever performance in France, over a century after it premiered in Munich.
In her new staging of the opera for Palermo, Emma Dante, who is herself a native of that city, links the historical uprising of 1282 to the anti-mafia protests that erupted all over Sicily thirty years ago.
The Opéra de Lausanne presents Ralph Benatzky’s acclaimed operetta in its much-loved French version by Paul Bonneau, sumptuously staged by Gilles Rico and conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce.
