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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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