(Credit: Visit Alsace official website) The Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg has announced the cancelation of a performance of Bizet’s “Carmen” on Dec. 15, 2021. “The health situation has deteriorated in the last few days among the teams participating in our production of ‘Carmen’,” said the opera house in an official statement. The opera was set to star Edgaras {…}
(Credits: © McQueen / Deutsche Oper am Rhein official website / © Jean-Baptiste Millot / Jiyang Chen) Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, France has announced its 2021-22 season. Here is the full slate. Operas Hans Abrahamsen’s “The Snow Queen” will spotlight Lauren Snouffer, Rachael Wilson, Helena Rasker, David Leigh, Michael Smallwood, Owen Willetts, Floriane Derthe, and Moritz Kallenberg. Robert {…}
Two French opera houses have announced reopening plans. Strasbourg’s Opera du Rhin announced that it will reopen on Dec. 15 with a Beethoven chamber program celebrating the composer’s anniversary. It also announced that the new production of “Hänsel und Gretel” will open on Dec. 17. Meanwhile, the Opéra de Lyon announced that the theater will reopen on Dec. 15 with {…}
(Credit: YouTube) Famed French director Humbert Camerlo has died after a long illness, aged 76. Camerlo worked in the various fields of the art, that were closely linked to the live theater, architecture and even different forms of image technologies. He studied economics for two years at the University of Lyon, but then his great passion for the world of {…}