Opéra de Monte-Carlo – Riviera Buzz

Bartoli stars as Cleopatra in Monte-Carlo Opera’s First Production of 2024

January 9, 2024

Cecilia Bartoli, Director of Monte-Carlo Opera, stars as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt), opposite Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli who takes the title role.

Monte-Carlo Opera Stages New Production of Verdi’s ‘Don Carlo’

GILLY LLOYD

November 10, 2023

Arts & Culture

Monte-Carlo Opera presents Don Carlo - Giuseppe Verdi’s dramatic and moving story of passion, betrayal, political intrigue and conflict between father and son.

Opéra de Monte-Carlo Presents Il barbiere di Siviglia

GILLY LLOYD

April 4, 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.

An Embarrassment of Cultural Riches on the Riviera this Month

GILLY LLOYD

February 10, 2022

Arts & Culture

This month, Nice Opera and Monte-Carlo Opera stage two very different productions - Jacques Offenbach’s Le voyage dans la lune in Nice while Monte-Carlo Opera stages Massenet’s Werther.

Monte-Carlo Opera Presents Rossini’s ‘Il turco in Italia’

GILLY LLOYD

January 16, 2022

Arts & Culture

Love, infidelity and comedic drama are in the air in Gioachino Rossini’s ‘Il turco in Italia’, to be staged by Monte-Carlo Opera this month

Ballet on the Riviera this Christmas

GILLY LLOYD

December 7, 2021

Arts & Culture

Ballet on the Riviera this month features Ballet Nice Méditerranée’s Don Quichotte and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo’s Casse-Noisette Compagnie

New Ballet Seasons Open in Nice and Monte-Carlo

GILLY LLOYD

October 11, 2021

Arts & Culture

The month of October sees the opening of the 2021-22 ballet seasons in both Nice and Monte-Carlo. We take a look at the opening works.

Not-to-be-missed Cultural Performances in Monaco

JUDY ISACOFF

October 4, 2021

Arts & Culture

Discover the best not-to-be-missed cultural performances in Monaco guaranteed to help you see out 2021 in style, from recitals to masked balls. Read more.

New Production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov for Monte-Carlo Opera

GILLY LLOYD

April 13, 2021

Arts & Culture

Modest Mussorgsky’s magnificent historical opera, Boris Godunov, opens this month at the Salle Garnier in Monaco

Cecilia Bartoli stars in Monte-Carlo Opera’s Production of ‘Le Comte Ory’

GILLY LLOYD

February 16, 2021

Arts & Culture

Cecilia Bartoli stars as the Countess Adèle de Formoutiers, in the Opera de Monte-Carlo premiere performance of Rossini’s comic opera 'Le Comte Ory'

Monte-Carlo Opera Brings New Production of Massenet’s ‘Thaïs’ to the Salle Garnier

GILLY LLOYD

January 17, 2021

Arts & Culture

Monte-Carlo Opera’s first production of 2021 is a new staging of Jules Massenet’s relatively unknown opera Thaïs - last seen in the Principality in February 1950. Starring Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka (pictur...

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Celebrates Maillot’s 60th

GILLY LLOYD

December 12, 2020

Arts & Culture

December is a festive month in Monaco in more ways than one, as Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo celebrates the 60th birthday of Choreographer-Director Jean-Christophe Maillot

Cecilia Bartoli to Become New Director of Monte-Carlo Opera

GILLY LLOYD

January 22, 2020

Arts & Culture

Monte-Carlo Opera has announced that Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli will become the first female Director of the Company when she succeeds Jean-Louis Grinda in 2023

Monte-Carlo Opera Rings in the New Year with La Bohème

GILLY LLOYD

January 13, 2020

Arts & Culture

One of the world’s best-loved operas, Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, will bring some of the most beautiful music ever written to Monte-Carlo this month

Monaco celebrates National Day with Opening of Donizetti’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’

GILLY LLOYD

November 12, 2019

Arts & Culture

In celebration of Monaco’s National Day on 19th November, Monte-Carlo Opera opens its new season with Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor the weekend before.

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Bartoli stars as Cleopatra in Monte-Carlo Opera’s First Production of 2024

Monte-Carlo Opera Stages New Production of Verdi’s ‘Don Carlo’

Opéra de Monte-Carlo Presents Il barbiere di Siviglia

An Embarrassment of Cultural Riches on the Riviera this Month

Monte-Carlo Opera Presents Rossini’s ‘Il turco in Italia’

Ballet on the Riviera this Christmas

New Ballet Seasons Open in Nice and Monte-Carlo

Not-to-be-missed Cultural Performances in Monaco

New Production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov for Monte-Carlo Opera

Cecilia Bartoli stars in Monte-Carlo Opera’s Production of ‘Le Comte Ory’

Monte-Carlo Opera Brings New Production of Massenet’s ‘Thaïs’ to the Salle Garnier

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Celebrates Maillot’s 60th

Cecilia Bartoli to Become New Director of Monte-Carlo Opera

Monte-Carlo Opera Rings in the New Year with La Bohème

Monaco celebrates National Day with Opening of Donizetti’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’

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