OPERA DE MONTE-CARLO

Imogène d’Il pirata (1827) serait-elle la grande soeur de Lucia ? L’intrigue de Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) présente des ressemblances troublantes avec celle d’Il pirata ...

« Depuis plusieurs jours, toutes les questions politiques, artistiques et commerciales sont délaissées par les journaux. Tout s’efface devant un événement d’une bien plus grande ...

Au début des années 1820, Gioachino Rossini a pour objectif de s’implanter solidement à Paris. Les Bourbons dirigent le pays et de fastueuses célébrations sont ...

Created in 1735 in London, Handel's Ariodante has always fascinated the admirers of the composer and has not ceased to win the hearts of the ...

Othello is the highest peak ever achieved by Italian operatic music, both in terms of invention and content, as well as in terms of form ...

In the evening of the indescribable triumph of the premiere of Otello, Giuseppe Verdi aspires only to become again the quiet peasant of Sant'Agata. But ...

From the Old Testament to Cecil B. DeMille, the sulphurous love relationships of Samson and Dalila have not ceased to provoke moral condemnations and unallowable ...

The action takes place in Germany, between the Franconian castle of the Bohemian Forest, and lasts about two years. Masnadieri is "Freedom or death", people ...

Peter Grimes does not fit. Society have their eye over the shoulder and whisper among themselves his name. Certainly, Grimes committed a crime? He was ...

Until 1870, the Attila by Giuseppe Verdi knows no less than twenty-five productions in the Italian peninsula. Then his fame comes in the shadow of ...

Born into a family of music teachers in Indiana (Pennsylvania), Renée Fleming knows a first international recognition in 1986 by interpreting The Abduction from the ...

Air and melodies of Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Franz Liszt, Manuel de Falla, Gabriel Fauré and Henri Duparc. Peruvian tenor to acute expansion and breathtaking ...

While the First World War is raging, The Player, the new opera of the young Prokofiev is rehearsing in Petrograd. The revolution of 1917 broke ...

On December 26, 1831, Norma by Vincenzo Bellini is presented at La Scala in Milan and failure is cooking. It's hard to believe today that ...

In 1735, Handel inaugurates his first season at Covent Garden in London with two of his greatest operas: Ariodante politely received on 8 January and ...

While Italy is seeking a successor to the tutelary figure of Giuseppe Verdi, all hopes are on Alfredo Catalani, Elda young composer whose opera, created ...

Opera arias excerpts from Giulio Cesare, Arianna in Creta, Amadigi, Radamisto, Agrippina, Serse and Alessandro. According to his phenomenal career, Nathalie Stutzmann has stopped singing ...

May 10 , 1888, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky attended the Maly Theatre in Moscow to a representation of Renés Datter Kong (" The Daughter of King ...

In the fall of 1930 , the young Shostakovich is working in the composition of a new opera , a dark painting of the province ...

Diana Damrau was born in Bavaria GUNZBOURG an der Donau . She made ??a stunning debut at Covent Garden in London in 2003 in the ...

By a quirk of history, it is in Prague begins the saga of Don Giovanni . In 1786 , Mozart triumphantly presents The Marriage of ...

Composed a year before his death , the cycle Winterreise is perhaps the most beautiful set of songs by Franz Schubert. The composer then a ...

Shrouded in mystery personality , composer admired by Schoenberg and huge conductor according to Stravinsky, Alexander von Zemlinsky feel the pain of being totally forgotten ...

Spurred by the overwhelming success of Cavalleria rusticana the Mascagni , Ruggero Leoncavallo throws himself headlong into the composition ( music and lyrics ) a ...

Gioachino Rossini William Tell succession mystery : how the most famous composer of his time , the last representative of the great aristocratic tradition of ...

It is no longer José Cura . His name shines for years on the facades of the largest theaters and intense and innovative interpretations of ...

Established in 1867 , Romeo and Juliet is the first undisputed victory Gounod theater and the highlight of his career. His subsequent production does not ...

The meeting of the soprano Natalie Dessay and Emmanuelle Haim chief conductor with the music of Handel is one of those successful associations that large ...

From 24 to 27 July, the Ballets de Monte-Carlo Company will perform CHORÉ by Jean-Christophe Maillot. Widely acclaimed on its creation in 2013, this piece ...

Vibrant adaptation of the novel drama to the canons of the art of Opera with Ernani, Verdi and his librettist Piave, have preserved the verbal ...

Among the different places where you could give performances or make music in the Palace of prince Nikolaus Esterházy, the employer of Joseph Haydn, there ...

In the wide range of works by Joseph Haydn, the part that constitutes the operatic repertoire remained unjustly in the shadow where in the 1970s, ...

Long reception of the Milanese public was the bane of Donizetti. When in summer 1840 the Teatro Carcano displays the first of Anna Bolena, the ...

Max Emanuel Cencic began his career with the small singers of Vienna, where he became one of the best-known members. In 1992, he began a ...

Since its creation in March 1901, Rusalka, the most famous opera by Antonin Dvorak, is a success. Mixture of magic, of national folklore and mythology, ...

Gaetano Donizetti was already on the stage of the Théâtre des Italiens with works such as Anna Bolena, Lucia di Lammermoor and Marino Faliero but ...

First part of this epic, Rheingold doesn't unfairly have the same place in the directory as the other three days of the ring. The fault ...

Joyce DiDonato offers us a flamboyant program theme, Drama Queens, which includes vested tunes to the large Queens of baroque opera of the 17th and ...

In 1937, America has finally come out of the crisis thanks to the New Deal and don't think a moment find themselves in war four ...

New production in coproduction with the Teatro Regio in Parma The original libretto for Stiffelio dechaina relentlessly censorship for several reasons: the Italian society of ...

New production, in coproduction with the Rome Opera and the Teatro Carlo Goldoni of Livorno 1905: Pietro Mascagni, figurehead of the Verismo with his meteoric ...

Colossus the voice of brass character charming and warm, the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is before all hailed as the greatest singer-actor of his generation. ...

In recent years, Cecilia Bartoli allowed the rediscovery of many composers of the baroque period thanks to a constantly renewed curiosity. His passion for the ...

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave....