(Photo: © Dominique Jaussein) France is currently in the grip of Olympic fever. Although Paris is the official site of the games, every corner of the country is feeling the effects of the event, even in the cultural domain. The Opéra de Nice has thus declared their 2023-24 season to be, at least in part, devoted to the theme of {…}
Photo credit: © Dominique Jaussein The Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur inaugurated their 2023-2024 season with a new staging of Léo Delibe’s “Lakmé” coproduced with the Opéra-Comique in Paris, which premiered the production in September-October 2022, and the Opéra national du Rhin which will present performances in Mulhouse and Strasbourg in November 2023. Pelly’s Anti-Kitsch ‘Lakmé’ This coproduction marks the {…}
Opéra de Nice recently announced that conductor Lionel Bringuier has been appointed the company’s new Artist Associate. Bringuier will return to his hometown following his recent successes with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Staatskapelle Dresden to lead the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice – the orchestra with whom he played his very first solo as a cellist at the {…}
