ARTE Concert

At the Teatro Real in Madrid, director Laurent Pelly and conductor Giacomo Sagripanti get to grips with Gioachino Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) – a delightful opera buffa teeming with colourful characters!

MC Solaar, perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

The triumphant return of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds to France bring with them a full stage show brimming with elegant fury and mystical fervour.

Simple Minds performed at Les Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon on July 10, 2024. The band played their album “New Gold Dream” in its entirety, followed by a second set of their greatest hits. The concert took place in the unique setting of the Roman Theaters of Fourvière. Simple Minds' concert at Les Nuits de Fourvière was a highlight of the 2024 edition of the festival. The band not only performed their iconic album but also delivered an energetic performance, transporting the audience into a festive and lively atmosphere.

Southern rock pioneers Lynyrd Skynyrd take to the stage at Hellfest 2019 in Clisson, France for a career-spanning set including such staples as Sweet Home Alabama, That Smell, and Free Bird.

50 years after the release of the Pet Sounds album with the Beach Boys, this is Brian Wilson at la Baloise Session.

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1866, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contemporary Parisian life, unlike his earlier period pieces and mythological subjects. It became one of Offenbach's most popular operettas.

Discover Grace Bumbry’s inspiring rise to global opera fame. Spotlighting her historic performances, the film explores the racial barriers she overcame to triumph in her 1966 performance as "Carmen."

Arrived in an abandoned place or emerged from a society at a standstill, men and women organize themselves in their own way, borrowing what they find on the spot and in the memory of what surrounds them, the theater and the people... In the superb mineral setting of the Boulbon quarry, Philippe Quesne, inspired by a work by the painter Jérôme Bosch, orchestrates a joyful retro-futurist epic to meet the worlds to come, between environmental science fiction and contemporary western.

Lil Dicky is not only a rapper but also a comedian. He made a name for himself with "Ex-Boyfriend", a track that went viral overnight. Since then, he's worked with the likes of Snoop Dogg and T-Pain. On his debut album, released in 2016, he relies on high-speed flow and humorous lyrics. His set promises to be one of the most entertaining at splash! 2017.

Nils Frahm unleashes the full genius of his neoclassical universe for an ecstatic audience at the Philharmonie de Paris. A concert built around tracks from Day, his fifteenth album released in 2024.

Choir director Sofi Jeannin invites cellist Ophélie Gaillard and her Ensemble Pulcinella to a concert featuring several works by Vivaldi, Laura Sirmen Lombardini's Violin Concerto and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Magnificat Quarti Toni.

Returning to the archives of this memorable recital, from which it presents numerous excerpts, this documentary is punctuated with testimonials from its principal performers, music critics and several big names in piano, including Lang Lang, Gabriela Montero, David Salmon and Manuel Vieillard, whose Geister Duo is considered one of the most promising duos of their generation.

A Christmas classic revisited in dance form at the Finnish National Opera: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It's the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, miserly old man who, on Christmas Eve, is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. A magical tale popular with all ages, adapted into a ballet by an all-British artistic team including composer Sally Beamish and choreographer David Bintley.

With their lyrical flights of fancy, guitar riffs and electro influences, Within Temptation's concert was undubtedly one of the highlights of Hellfest 2025. Let Sharon den Adel's voice transport you to unknown places.

Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire operatic repertoire. Generations of spectators have been fascinated by the melodies and adventures of Papageno, the Queen of the Night, Tamino, and Pamina, the ordeals faced by the young lovers, and the work’s inexhaustible allegorical depth. The director Romeo Castellucci has deliberately stepped back from the narrative dimension of the opera in order to explore its raw emotion and its philosophical heart. For his part, the conductor Antonello Manacorda brings Mozart’s immortal music to life with the help of an outstanding cast that includes Sabine Devieilhe, one of today’s finest interpreters of the Queen of the Night.