Cosi fan tutte - Lyon streaming

On Saturday, July 16, the Opera de Lyon will bring Cosi fan tutte to all Lyonnais (outside screen, place des Terreaux and elsewhere 9pm) and also to all internet fans, wherever they might be (streaming starts at 9:35pm on the Opera de Lyon's website).

Get a virtual ticket & watch Rigoletto

The Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium will stream Rigoletto live on its website Opera Live on March 23, 2010 (8 pm Paris time).

You'll need to buy a virtual ticket to watch the program (that comes an information package about the singers and the production); 4€ for a Standard Quality video, 6€ for a video in High Quality.

Dessay's Sonnambula on Medici.tv

Bellini's La Sonnambula will be broadcast live from the Palais Garnier monday evening on Medici.tv.

Broadcast Monday Feb.15 starting at 7:30pm (Paris time).

Kaufmann's Werther broadcast

Massenet's Werther will be broadcast live tomorrow on Arte, but also on the web via Arte Live Web, the Paris Opera Website or Medici.tv (countries restrictions on the latter, but the broadcast will be available for all on Feb.3rd).

Broadcast Tuesday Jan.26 starting at 8:30pm (Paris time).

Live from Liège

The Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium will stream Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi live on its website Opera Live on Feb.2, 2010 (8 pm Paris time).

The cast includes Patrizia Ciofi as Giulietta and Laura Polverelli as Romeo.

The Opéra de Lyon on Arte Live Web

Photo Opéra de Lyon

Arte Live Web will broadcast the performance of Chostakovitch's Cheryomushki on Dec.29 (from 8 pm) from the Opéra de Lyon.

Scala Opening Night on Arte

Once again, Arte will broadcast the Opening Night at La Scala on Dec.7 (8:45 pm Paris time).

This year of course Carmen opens the season, directed by Emma Dante, and conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Another reason to love Arte

[as if I still needed one]

It's called Arte Lounge, and it's hosted by Measha Brueggergosman.

© ZDF / © Antje Dittmann

Playlist for the 3rd show, that aired Nov.12 and can be viewed from France and Germany on Arte+7 here :

- Voyage à Paris, Francis Poulenc, Measha Brueggergosman

- Oboe Concerto, 2nd & 3rd mvts, J.S. Bach, Albrecht Mayer (Berlin Philharmoniker)

- Sorge nell'alma mia, Haendel, Max-Emanuel Cencic

- Cara Speme, Haendel, Max-Emanuel Cencic

- Black Earth, Fazil Say

- Turkischer Marsch, W.A.Mozart, superb re-interpretation by Fazil Say
- C'est la vie, Coralie Clément
- Le baiser permanent, Coralie Clément
- La diva de l'Empire, Eric Satie,  Measha Brueggergosman
- Sleepy time, Mocky
- Was Gott tut, das ich wohlgetan, J.S.Bach, Mayer, Cencic, Mocky and others...

Next show on Dec.10.

Traviata broadcast from Lyon

Complete list of outdoor broadcasts here.
The performance will also be broadcast live on France Musique and Mezzo, on the Opéra de Lyon website and on evene.fr.

St Denis live on the internet

The Festival de St Denis will start on Sunday and 5 concerts will be broadcast live and free on the internet via medici.tv:

• June 8 2009, 8:30pm (Paris time) Riccardo Muti conducting Verdi's Requiem with Barbara Frittoli, Olga Borodina, Ramon Vargas, Ildar Abdrazakov Choeur de Radio France (Matthias Brauer chorus master) Orchestre National de France 
  
• June 18 2009, 8:30pm Félix Mendelssohn Concerto pour violon Les Hébrides – ouverture Le Songe d’une nuit d’été Amel Brahim–Djelloul, Renata Pokupic, Sergey Khachatryan (violin) Maîtrise de Radio France (Sofi Jeannin ch master) Orchestre National de France (Kurt Masur conducting)
• June 23 2009, 8:30pm LEO Salve Regina HAENDEL Il Pianto di Maria PERGOLESE Stabat Mater Sabrina Puertolas, Vivica Genaux Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset, direction
• July 2 2009, 8:30pm RACHMANINOV Les Cloches TCHAIKOVSKI Concerto pour violon Marina Poplavskaya, Piotr Beczala, Vassili Gerello, Alina Pogostkina (violon) Choeur de Radio France (Matthias Brauer ch master) Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Mikko Franck, direction
• July 7 2009, 8:30pm Ludwig van Beethoven Fantaisie Chorale Symphonie n°9 Olga Guryakova, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Nikolaï Schukoff, René Pape, Herbert Schuch (piano) BBC National Chorus of Wales Ensemble Orchestral de Paris John Nelson, direction

Freischutz live on Arte

On June 1st, Arte will broadcast live from Baden-Baden Weber's Der Freischutz, starting at 7 pm. The broadcast will also be available via the website arte.tv where the program will begin at 6 pm with several backstage cameras and two reporters showing the preparations for this performance. Thomas Hengelbrock - Musical Direction Robert Wilson - Direction, Stage Design and Lighting Viktor und Rolf - Costumes Klaus Kuttler - Ottokar Reinhard Dorn - Cuno Juliane Banse - Agathe Julia Kleiter - Ännchen Dimitry Ivashchenko - Kaspar Steve Davislim - Max Festspielhaus Chorus Baden-Baden Mahler Chamber Orchestra From Classiquenews.

Opéra Comique Live Broadcast

The Opéra Comique in Paris is the first opera in France to actually duplicate the Met HD broadcast concept.

The June 25th performance of Carmen (with Anna Caterina Antonacci in the lead role) will be broadcast in HD in selected movies in France, Belgium and Switzerland by the same operating firm that already has the Met HD Broadcast licence, CielEcran.

From Le Matin.

Orange on TV

After the success of live performances from Les Chorégies d'Orange (1.6 million* viewers for Il Trovatore in 2007 and 1.8 million* viewers for Faust last year), France Televisions will broadcast live the two productions performed this year in Orange.

• Traviata on July 11th (Myung-Whun Chung conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France) on France 2
• Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci on August 4th (Georges Prêtre conducting the Orchestre National de France) on France 3

* France Televisions numbers

Muti broadcast

Rai Radio Tre will broadcast live Iphigénie en Aulide from Il Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, on March 17 (8:30pm Paris time), conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Clari broadcast

This monday evening at 10:35 pm (Paris time), Arte will broadcast Halévy's forgotten Clari, performed last may in Zurich, with Cecilia Bartoli.

JDF for Xmas

This Sunday night at 7 pm (Paris time), Arte is devoting 45 minutes to Juan Diego Flórez in a program called after his latest soloist CD, Bel Canto Spectacular. With extracts from two recitals (Baden-Baden and Vienna). Rerun on Dec.26 (9am).

Another great Arte moment - opening night at La Scala

The great TV channel Arte will offer yet another thrilling moment on Dec.7 for the opening night of La Scala. It will broadcast the premiere of Don Carlo live from Milan, directed by Stéphane Braunschweig and conducted by Daniele Gatti, the new musical director of the Orchestre National de France. The evening will start at 7 pm (Paris time). Thank you Arte!

Via Qobuz.

The ROH's proselytism

Hurrah for the Royal Opera House! Even if France is not (as usual) among the chosen sites for the HD telecasts, we will be able, as well as the rest of the world, to watch the London productions in streaming, via the ROH's website, starting Oct.5 (the website, by the way, has been drastically upgraded). Oh, and did I mention this treat is on the ROH? Free of charge, yes indeed.

Via the NY Times.

La Pietra del Paragone

"Non ricusi il mio favor."
[Atto 1, Scena Terza]

Je signale l'initiative intéressante de France 2 qui, en parallèle à la diffusion télé, met à disposition en streaming, sur internet et gratuitement un des premiers opéras de Rossini, la Pietra del Paragone, dans la production de janvier 2007 du théâtre du Châtelet (livret intégral de l'opéra disponible ici).

Le programme est divisé en deux parties, la première accessible depuis lundi dernier (1er acte), la seconde à partir de lundi prochain (acte 2). La qualité, tant sonore que visuelle, est excellente (diffusion du DVD livre paru chez Naïve).

Livret de Luigi Romanelli

Direction musicale: Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Ensemble MATHEUS
Choeurs du Teatro Regio di Parma

Conte Asdrubale: François Lis
Marchesina Clarice: Sonia Prina
Barconessa Aspasia: Jennifer Holloway
Donna Fulvia: Lauren Giordano
Pacuvio: Christian Senn
Giocondo: José Manuel Zapata
Fabrizio: Filipo Polinelli
Conte Macrobio: Joan Martin-Royo

M. en scène: Giorgio Barberio Corselti & Pierrick Sorin

Critique du Figaro ici, de Libération là, de Classique News.

La mise en scène est... spéciale on va dire. Un ersatz de sketch de Mister Bean, qui ne me sied absolument pas.

La partition, jouée sur instruments d'époque, pleine de dorures châtoyantes et luxuriantes, ne se marie juste pas du tout avec les écrans plasma des années 2000 et une esthétique et des costumes des années 60.
Au contraire, je trouve que le contraste ne fait pas honneur à la musique de Rossini. Il la ringardise complètement.
Bref, je n'aime pas l'association des deux.

Au-delà de cela, cette production me ramène à la même sempiternelle interrogation: à quand remonte la dernière mise en scène potable, au Châtelet?

Seriously.

Sans compter évidemment la médiocrité des chanteurs.

CallassoTherapy

... le nouveau podcast d'une heure d'Abeille Musique est entièrement dédié à l'opéra, avec des enregistrements méconnus du passé, des chorniques sur l'actualité lyrique à Paris et les disques d'Abeille Musique. Et en prime, en co-animateur, un certain Benoît dont la voix traduit cruellement la sexualité. A écouter sans modération!