50 Years Later, A Dream Come True: Marc Chagall National Museum Honours Chagall’s Wish For Diversity
In Nice, guest artists express their vision of the famous artist’s work in the exhibit: “Chagall et moi! Les 50 ans du Musée Chagall”
Printemps des Arts Celebrates the Performing Arts in Monte-Carlo
This year’s celebration of the performing arts in Monte-Carlo - Printemps des Arts - takes place from 8th March to 2nd April
Irina Brook: From the Ashes, The Seagull Rises
After leaving Nice in 2019, the former TNN director retreated from the public eye to reinvent herself, and has emerged more creative than ever. Her current play in Palermo bears witness.
Nice Opera Presents Lucia di Lammermoor
Against a backdrop of vocal brilliance, powerful emotions and internecine battles, Lucia di Lammermoor has all the makings of a highly dramatic opera.
Collectif 8’s New Play L’Orestie: A Theatrical Thunderclap
Gaële Boghossian and Paulo Correia’s theatre company is renowned for thought-provoking, boundary-pushing productions. But their latest oeuvre may be their finest one yet.
Cecilia Bartoli Stars in Handel’s ‘Alcina’ at Monte-Carlo Opera
As of this year, Cecilia Bartoli takes over the role of director of Monte-Carlo Opera - the first woman to hold this position in the history of this opera house
Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ Opens 2023 for Nice Opera
Nice Opera has selected Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, for its first production of 2023.
Monte-Carlo Ballet Closes the Year with Maillot’s ‘Faust’
For the final production of the year, Jean-Christophe Maillot and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo have selected a work which was first staged in Monaco in 2007 - Maillot’s interpretation of the story of Faust
Telemann’s French Cantatas Vol.2. – CPO Classic Production in cooperation with SWR2
What could be better than listening to baroque church music? Especially when it comes to cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann.
Monte-Carlo Opera Stages Delibes’ ‘Lakmé’
Monte-Carlo Opera presents Léo Delibes’ Lakmé - an opera set in a location both exotic and beautiful, with mysterious religious rituals, and the added intrigue of Western colonials living in a foreign country.
Monte-Carlo Opera Honours Raoul Gunsbourg with ‘The Damnation of Faust’
This year marks the centenary of the death of Prince Albert I of Monaco, and appropriately, Monte-Carlo Opera pays tribute to one of its early directors, Raoul Gunsbourg, who was appointed to this role by Prince Albert I in 1892
New Production of Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula’ for Nice Opera’s Season Opener
Nice Opera opens the 2022-23 opera season with Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula, a co-production between the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Semperoper Dresden, Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur and New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Plasson & Nice Philharmonic Celebrate Franck Bicentennial
This week, internationally renowned conductor Michel Plasson leads the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra in a special concert to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of French composer, César Franck.
Nice Ballet Takes Contemporary Look at Legend of Cassandra
Ballet Nice Méditerranée opens its 2022-23 season with Cassandra, choreographer Luciano Cannito’s contemporary take on the legend of the mythological heroine.
‘Soirée 3 chorégraphes’ Closes Monte-Carlo Ballets’ ‘L’Été Danse!’
The final production of Monte-Carlo Ballet’s summer dance programme, L’Été Danse!, is a triple bill entitled Soirée 3 chorégraphes, which features works by Jean-Christophe Maillot, Jirí Kylián and Mats Ek.