The Académie Opéra National de Paris has unveiled its 2023-24 season. There will be an opening concert featuring artists in residence of the Académie. Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2023 There will be a Brahms concert featuring Lied from the famed composer. Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2023 Next up is a double bill of the ballet “Ma Mère L’Oye” and the opera {…}
IMAX has announced the new dates for “Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing” series. First up, “Cities that Sing: Paris” on August 26 for a one-day screening. Meanwhile, “Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing: Venice,” will show on screens around the United States on September 16. The feature-length films were produced by Tripp Hornick and Elmar Kruse, and directed by Francois-René Martin, {…}
Artivistas, 360° of Opera, and Bare Opera will join forces to present a concert on June 21, 2023 in honor of “La Fête de la musique.” The performance, which will take place at the Paris-based Artivistas gallery, will feature mezzo-soprano Eugenia Forteza and pianist Laetitia Ruccolo in a program featuring music by Gardel, Maria Grever, Piazzolla, Rossini, Consuelo Velázquez, and {…}
(Credit: Charles Duprat / Opera de Paris) The Opéra National de Paris has announced that to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its “Opéra d’été” series, it will showcase 46 free screenings of past productions throughout nine departments and 17 villages in France. Here is a rundown of the operas that will be streamed this summer. First up will be “Platée” {…}
(Credit: Opéra de Dijon official website) The directors and general managers of 50 opera houses, theaters and orchestras in France have expressed grave concerns over poor attendance since the reopening in September 2021. For the past few weeks, orchestras and operas have been buzzing with rediscovered, renewed and revived joy. However, after only one month of reopening, a study by {…}
(Credit: picture-alliance / T. Muncke) French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed that theaters and opera houses will be allowed to reopen on May 19, but only if the health situation allows. The reopening could also be done on a regional basis. In an interview for Le Parisien, Macron outlined the reopening plan, which will be implemented in phases. The second {…}
(Credit: Opéra National de Paris official website) President of France Emmanuel Macron has declared a third nationwide lockdown. The lockdown will last for four weeks starting April 4, 2021. In a televized speech, Macron stated that the new SARS-CoV-2 variants are essentially a pandemic within a pandemic. “No region in France is now spared, and 44 percent of intensive care {…}
(Credit: https://www.paris-normandie.fr/) French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19. Per sources of French newspaper “Libération,” Bachelot attended a closed performance of Gounod’s “Faust” at Opéra National de Paris on Friday, March 18, the day before her symptoms developed. The opera will be streamed on March 26, 2021. Bachelot initially developed breathing problems, but then her symptoms {…}
Credit: Maxppp France will try to organize experimental concerts in Marseille and Paris in March and April 2021, in a bid to reopen the embattled cultural sector. Per an official statement from France’s Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot, two concerts will be held in Marseille in the second half of March, and one concert will be held in Paris in April. {…}
(Credit: Opéra National de Paris official website) The Government of France has announced an extension of the COVID-19 measures aimed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. “The overall level of new infections still remain high, and has tended to increase since mid-December 2020,” said Prime Minister Jean Castex. “The situation has not returned to normal. It has even {…}
(Credit: Opéra National de Paris official website) The French Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot said that the government has no idea regarding the reopening of the cultural venues. “We understand that the culture sector is suffering,” said Bachelot. “Even in that case, it would be hazardous to reopen it, in the absence of the clear scientific evidence regarding the risk of {…}