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In March 2024, to mark the 300th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, premiered in Leipzig in 1724, Berlin-born Sasha Waltz presented a movingly intense choreographed version on the stage of the Opéra de Dijon.

Young María, the embodiment of tango, leaves the outskirts of Buenos Aires and tries her luck in the chaotic downtown, where she triumphs in dark places ruled by crime and debauchery, unaware that a menacing presence stalks her, seeking her doom and death.

Live broadcast of the opera performance held on November 10, 2012 at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, performed by five world-class countertenors.

With this DVD and Blu-ray of Rodelinda, one of Handel’s most emotionally complex operas, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm adds to her impressive Erato catalogue of the composer’s works. The imaginative production, by Jean Bellorini, was seen at the Opéra de Lille in Autumn 2018, and the cast features soprano Jeanine De Bique in the title role, countertenor Tim Mead as her husband Bertarido and another countertenor, Erato’s rising star Jakub Józef Orliński as Unulfo. Reviewing the production, Le Monde noted Emmanuelle Haïm’s “intimate connection with this music, which she knows how to unleash in all its violence, passion and heart-wrenching expressivity.”

The latest edition of the Festival International de Colmar opens with an exceptional performance from the Orchestre Symphonique du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, conducted by Alain Altinoglu. After Wagner's Prelude to Lohengrin, baritone Stéphane Degout sings Mahler's Songs of a Wandering Companion. The evening at Saint-Matthieu church closes with César Franck's Symphony in D minor, a jewel from the repertoire of the late 19th century.

The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, whose understanding is ideal: both breathe a troupe spirit - specific to comedy - into this heterogeneous cast, which brings together young and old. Both give as much importance to recitatives as to arias and ensembles.

Passengers invites Yann Tiersen under the steel canopy of Tempelhof Airport. An expansive setting for the windswept sound of album Kerber, an ode to the Breton island of Ushant. Concert filmed on April 24, 2023 in the Great Hall of Tempelhof Airport, Berlin.

On the way to the Trojan War, the king of Mycenae killed a sacred doe belonging to Diana, an offense for which the goddess of war demands the sacrifice of the daughter of the leader of the Achaeans.

In the 18th century, Hamburg Opera broke free from the influence of Italy, giving rise to a new musical culture in Germany. Counter-tenor Max Emanuel Cenčić offers us a glimpse of this vibrant operatic life from the stage of the stunning Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, accompanied by Christoph Rousset's Les Talens Lyriques. Chapters: - Reinhard Keiser - Georg Friedrich Haendel - Alessandro Scarlatti - Arcangelo Corelli - Johann Mattheson - Georg Philipp Telemann - Nicola Porpora

Accompanied by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Beatrice Rana, Mikko Franck conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1.

Countertenor Carlo Vistoli takes us on a musical journey through 17th-century Italy. The nascent opera genre was producing its first masterpieces at the time, with composers such as Monteverdi, Cesti, Cavalli and Stradella. These genius composers laid the foundations for opera and helped establish it as a major art form. The programme includes arias, love laments and scenes of madness.

Celebrated organist Sebastián Durón was unrivalled in his ability to marry Italian Baroque opera with incandescent Iberian folklore, much to the delight of the Spanish Court. Winners of the Opus Klassik prize for their recording of this music, Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai present Muera Cupido at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024. Programme : - Francisco Guerau (1649-1722) - Sebastián Durón - Fahmi Alqhai (*1976) - Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747) - José de Nebra (1702-1768)

Since the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, the city of Bayreuth has become a mecca for Baroque music. Sandrine Piau invites us to savour the frivolity of 18th-century Rome through cantatas with enchanting notes.

Sacred music meets the theatricality of opera in Handel's oratorio Messiah, here conducted by Laurence Equilbey and performed by the Insula Orchestra, Polish artist Jakub Józef Orliński and the Chœurs accentus at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.