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The Czech Philharmonic (Music Director Semyon Bychkov) celebrates the anniversary of The Velvet Revolution this year with a series of concerts led by Sir Simon Rattle. The guest artist is Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, and the programme features Ravel’s Five Greek Folk Songs, Béla Bartók’s Five Hungarian Folk Songs and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 9.…

Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, returns to Davies Symphony Hall this month to lead the orchestra in two programs. The first features the United States premiere of Danny Elfman’s Cello Concerto with guest artist Gautier Capuçon, and the following week MTT leads an all-Brahms program with guest pianist Emanuel Ax.…

Cinema audiences worldwide have an opportunity this Saturday to watch the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Verdi’s beloved tragedy, La traviata – live from the stage of Lincoln Center in New York. This production, by Michael Mayer, takes the form of a series of flashbacks as Violetta, in her dying moments, relives her love affair with…

Nice Opera opens the 2022-23 opera season with Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Directed by one of today’s leading tenors, Rolando Villazón, and Jean-Michel Criqui, this new staging of La Sonnambula is a co-production between the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Semperoper Dresden, Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur and New York’s Metropolitan Opera. This production by Nice Opera stars…

The Metropolitan Opera opens its new season of Live in HD award-winning cinema simulcasts with a highly acclaimed production of Cherubini’s rarely-performed masterpiece, Medea.  A company premiere, this production stars Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, and according to the Observer, she is “… a revelation…“ bringing “… emotional intensity and depth” to the role.…

This month, the San Francisco Symphony presents the first in its 2022-23 Great Performers concerts, in which world-class artists and visiting orchestras appear at Davies Symphony Hall throughout the current season. Included in this series of performers are pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Daniil Trifonov; violinists Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn and Itzhak Perlman;…

This week, internationally renowned conductor Michel Plasson leads the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra in a special concert to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of French composer, César Franck. Maestro Plasson is one of the best known French conductors, highly regarded for his interpretations of operas such as those by Gounod and Massenet as well…

In the second production of its Centennial Season, San Francisco Opera presents Tchaikovsky’s interpretation of Alexandr Pushkin’s Romantic tragedy, Eugene Onegin. Led by Vassilis Christopoulos – one of Greece’s most renowned conductors – the line-up of stars includes soprano Evgenia Muraveva as the heroine Tatyana, with bass-baritone Gordon Bintner in the title role. Tenor Evan…

Kazuki Yamada and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra open the 2022-23 season with a programme of favourites – Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony No 9. The guest artist is the highly acclaimed young violinist Daniel Lozakovich. Kazuki Yamada has been Music Director of the OPMC since the 2016-17 season, and with…

San Francisco Opera opens its Centennial Season with John Adams’ spectacular new work, Antony and Cleopatra. Starring in the title roles are bass-baritone Gerald Finley and soprano Amina Edris, joined by tenor Paul Appleby as Octavius Caesar, bass-baritone Alfred Walker as Antony’s confidante Enobarbus and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as Octavia, Caesar’s sister and Antony’s wife.…