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Gilly Lloyd is a journalist, copy and creative writer, and editor of Preview, as well as a contributor to the Arts section of Examiner.com

Lakmé courtesy Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur

Nice Opera Opens New Season with Delibes’ ‘Lakmé’

GILLY LLOYD
25 September, 2023
Arts & Culture
Nice Opera presents Léo Delibes’ Lakmé in a new staging by Laurent Pelly, a co-production between Nice Opera, the National Theatre of the Opéra-Comique and the National Opera of the Rhine.
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Opens New Season with Mahler

GILLY LLOYD
7 September, 2023
Arts & Culture
In the year which celebrates the centenary of the birth of Prince Rainier III, Kazuki Yamada leads the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra in the opening concert of the 2023-24 season.
Photo © Gaetan Luci

The 2023 Series of Concerts at the Prince’s Palace, Monaco

GILLY LLOYD
11 July, 2023
Arts & Culture
The summer season of Concerts at the Prince’s Palace opens in the Principality of Monaco this month.
La Bohème Nice Opera

Nice Opera Stages Updated Version of Puccini’s ‘La bohème’

GILLY LLOYD
25 May, 2023
Arts & Culture
In this updated version of Puccini’s much-loved opera for Nice Opera, director Kristian Frédric has brought the setting of La bohème forward to the 1990s - a time at which the AIDS epidemic, as opposed to consumption, was shattering both lives and dreams.
Photo by Lucia Macedo on Unsplash

Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Plays Elgar and Dvořák

GILLY LLOYD
8 May, 2023
Arts & Culture
This week, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, led by Cornelius Meister, plays the Violin Concerto by Sir Edward Elgar - with Frank Peter Zimmerman as soloist - and Dvořák’s Symphony No 6 in a concert with the subtitle Pride and Dignity.
Barber of Seville Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Opéra de Monte-Carlo Presents Il barbiere di Siviglia

GILLY LLOYD
4 April, 2023
Arts & Culture
A beautiful lady, two suitors and a town barber who misses nothing - what could possibly go wrong? Plenty, it seems, as Monte-Carlo Opera presents Gioachino Rossini’s hugely popular Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Printemps des Arts Monte-Carlo 2023

Printemps des Arts Celebrates the Performing Arts in Monte-Carlo

GILLY LLOYD
1 March, 2023
Arts & Culture
This year’s celebration of the performing arts in Monte-Carlo - Printemps des Arts - takes place from 8th March to 2nd April
Lucia di Lammermoor Nice Opera

Nice Opera Presents Lucia di Lammermoor

GILLY LLOYD
11 February, 2023
Arts & Culture
Against a backdrop of vocal brilliance, powerful emotions and internecine battles, Lucia di Lammermoor has all the makings of a highly dramatic opera.
Alcina © Monika Rittershaus

Cecilia Bartoli Stars in Handel’s ‘Alcina’ at Monte-Carlo Opera

GILLY LLOYD
17 January, 2023
Arts & Culture
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
Fidelio Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur

Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ Opens 2023 for Nice Opera

GILLY LLOYD
14 January, 2023
Arts & Culture
Nice Opera has selected Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, for its first production of 2023.
Faust - photo © Marie-Laure Briane

Monte-Carlo Ballet Closes the Year with Maillot’s ‘Faust’

GILLY LLOYD
20 December, 2022
Arts & Culture
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
Lake at Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Monte-Carlo Opera Stages Delibes’ ‘Lakmé’

GILLY LLOYD
1 December, 2022
Arts & Culture
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’

GILLY LLOYD
4 November, 2022
Arts & Culture
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
La Sonnambula Nice

New Production of Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula’ for Nice Opera’s Season Opener

GILLY LLOYD
25 October, 2022
Arts & Culture
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.
Michel Plasson

Plasson & Nice Philharmonic Celebrate Franck Bicentennial

GILLY LLOYD
10 October, 2022
Arts & Culture
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.
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