The Metropolitan Opera of New York offers the lyrical creation “The Hours”, composed by Kevin Puts on a libretto by Greg Pierce, adapted from the novel by Michael Cunningham and the associated film, in an ambitious production, at the crossroads of aesthetics and the arts: the journey, between opera and musical comedy, of Virginia Woolf … Read more
The Toulon Opera performs a French premiere of South Pacific by Rodgers & Hammerstein, a cult work in the United States, which brings together two themes still alive today: the world war and the racism inherited from colonialism. A great classic of the American lyrical-popular heritage is offered every year in Toulon, the opera house … Read more
In front of only 200 spectators (maximum gauge then authorized in Belgium) Norma de Bellini returns to the boards of La Monnaie de Bruxelles, radically powerful and renewed. Women are definitely in the spotlight this season at La Monnaie. After the transgressive Tosca, after Lulu of the most human and before Carmen, Norma offers herself … Read more