(Photo: Francesco Gasparini’s “L’Avare” (“The Miser”) is an intermezzo inspired by French playwright Molière’s five-act comedy in prose also titled “L’Avare.” It includes three singers and one mime accompanied by a small ensemble that tells the story of a pathological miser (Old Pancrazio) turned widower with severe paranoia about his box of gold that he buried in his garden being {…}
The Opéra de Dijon has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera David Ireland, Marine Chagnon, Krzysztof Lachman, Mikhail Timoshenko, and Valerio Morelli lead Rossini’s “La Cenerentola.” Nil Venditti conducts the production by Mirabelle Ordinaire. Performance Dates: Nov. 4-10, 2026 Eugénie Joneau leads Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” with Tadeusz Szlenkier, Elisabeth Boudreault, Polly Leech, and James Newby. Performance Dates: Feb. 7 & 9, {…}
(Credits: Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe / Olivier Allard) The Musée du Louvre has announced an upcoming series of concerts to be broadcast from its auditorium. The first such concert, entitled “Exoticism in French and European music in the seventeen century,” will showcase soprano Claire Lefilliâtre, tenors David Tricou and Serge Goubioud, and bass Geoffroy Buffière. Vincent Dumestre will conduct his Poème {…}