Author: Gilly Lloyd

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Lahav Shani © Oden Antman This month, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra embarks on a five-city tour of Florida and California, presented by American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic (AFIPO). Led by Music Director Lahav Shani, the tour marks the orchestra’s first return to the US since 2022. The programs will…

Lise Davidsen in Beethoven’s Fidelio © Karen Almond/Met Opera The latest cinema production from the Metropolitan Opera, Beethoven’s Fidelio, screens on March 15 in The Met Live-in-HD series. This production, which will be available in more than 1800 theatres worldwide, stars soprano Lise Davidsen in her Met role debut as Leonore, with bass René Pape…

Poster courtesy of Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo This year, Monte-Carlo’s Printemps des Arts festival pays tribute to French composer, conductor and essayist Pierre Boulez. The festival was created in 1970 on the initiative of Princess Grace of Monaco, and has been presided over by HRH the Princess of Hanover since 1984. Under the direction…

Robin Ticciati conducts a program of concerts at Davies Symphony Hall in which the Swiss-Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi makes his debut with the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4. The concerts also feature Sergei Rachmaninoff’s lovely Symphony No 2. British-Italian Ticciati, a protegé of Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Colin Davis, is…

Monte-Carlo Opera stages Das Rheingold, the first part of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle tetragology, in a new production by Davide Livermore. The opera stars Christopher Purves as Wotan, the ruler of the Gods, and Gianluca Capuano leads Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco. The Ring Cycle is Wagner’s portrayal of a universe destroyed by greed,…

The ensemble of ENO from the 2020 production of The Marriage of Figaro A revival of English National Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro, “as ingenious as it is engrossing” (Evening Standard), “Slick, cool and a lot of fun” (Telegraph) and “The escapist tonic you need” (The Times), opens in London next week. In a co-production…

Leah and Judith Pisar © Rikimaru Hotta The Orchestra of St Luke’s plays Leonard Bernstein’s magnificent Symphony No 3, Kaddish, at Carnegie Hall on January 29, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz which occurs on January 27. With original text by Auschwitz survivor and human rights defender, the late Samuel Pisar,…

Nice Opera presents the magic of Mozart’s La flûte enchantée Nice Opera presents a new production of what is regarded as one of the most popular works in the history of opera – Mozart’s La flûte enchantée (The Magic Flute). With stage direction by Cédric Klapisch (who also designed the sets) and directed by Laurent Delvert, the production…

Scene from the Royal Danish Theater production of La clemenza di Tito © Miklos Szabo As part of the Mozart à Monaco festival, organised by the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Monte-Carlo Opera stages a new production of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, in a coproduction with the Royal Danish Opera and Hamburg Staatsoper. The production is…

English National Ballet in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle English National Ballet presents Mary Skeaping’s Giselle at the London Coliseum this week, with production and choreography after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. A story of innocence and betrayal, Giselle is one of the oldest classical ballets still being performed today and regarded as the most…