2024 is sure to be a great Puccini year to mark the hundredth anniversary of his death. The Opernhaus Zürich has decided not to wait, programming La rondine, a delicate masterpiece that will be performed for the very first time in Switzerland! From 17 September 2023, the sensitive Ermonela Jaho and the magnificent Benjamin Bernheim […]

While the Bozar in Brussels opens the ball of the Rachmaninov 2023 festivities (on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth), the Opernhaus Zürich and the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich are joining forces for a concert cycle that begins on 12 February 2023, at the Opera House. The Piano Concerto No. 3 will be performed […]

The war in Ukraine has had many repercussions on the world of culture and especially on classical music. In addition to the temporary withdrawal of Anna Netrebko, the cancellation of Denis Matsuev’s concerts, the resignation of Valery Gergiev and, more surprisingly, Tugan Sokhiev’s, musical director of the Bolshoi in Moscow and of the Orchestre national […]

Talented director Sebastian Baumgarten is back at the Zürich Opera to direct a new production of a oratorio by Handel. Belshazzar directed by Laurence Cummings is premiered on November 3, 2019 and stars tenor Mauro Peter in the title role and sensational Jakub Józef Orliński as Cyrus. Book your tickets HERE.   Photo : Sebastian […]