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This Monday, October 27, the great Royal Philharmonic Orchestra arrived at the Palau de la Música Catalana with Vasily Petrenko as conductor. Petrenko knows how to extract a precise, methodical and poignant sound from any formation, but with the talent present in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, everything takes on an epic aspect. So much so that Albert Guinovart himself could hardly believe the sound that the RPO was able to extract from his "La Vida Secreta" Sonata. This i

The  Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia  in Rome wanted to kick off the musical season with a bold move: staging Die Walküre at the Auditorium of Rome's Parco della Musica. For this, some of the finest Wagnerian singers came to Rome. Michael Volle, on his endless Wotan tour, left his indelible vocal mark in Rome, creating another Wotan full of power and color. The evening's great achievement was Miina-Liisa Värelä's Brünnhilde. Her voice becomes a torrent that flows over th

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony is a monument to nature, an absolutely romantic analysis of all the elements that move the nature that surrounds us. Caspar David Friedrich did it with painting, Hölderlin did it with poetry and Beethoven did it with a very delicate orchestration and the construction of a symphony that is one of the most beautiful ever written. To the point that Wagner himself, in a way, pays homage to it in Siegfried's Rheinfahrt. Today the genius maestro Philippe

Tonight, The Metropolitan Opera House once again staged Puccini's legendary La Bohéme in Franco Zeffirelli's marvelous production. A colorful, detailed, and thrilling production—especially in the second act, where the Café Momus is a true stage spectacle—but not only are the costumes, sets, and props incredible; the cast chosen to begin this year's production (which will be replaced with other casts throughout 2025 and 2026) is stellar. Freddie de Tommaso, leaving behind hi

Georg Friedrich Händel was resurrected today and left Westminster Abbey to hear personally his new Oratorio in Barcelona: Theodor Currentzi's Oratorio. And Händel would have signed it, because Baroque and Händel are also freedom, much to the chagrin of today's Taliban of Baroque. In the history of musical performance, there is a moment that changed everything, with no back way: the birth of Theodor Currentzis and the subsequent creation of his soulmate, MusicAeterna. If we li

Faust, Charles Gounod Les Arts, Valencia 15 th  October 2025 Voices: Iván Ayón-Rivas (Faust), Alex Esposito (Méphistophélès), Ruth Iniesta (Marguerite), Florian Sempey (Valentín), Bryan Sala (Wagner), Ekaterine Buachidze (Siebel), Gemma Coma-Alabert (Marthe) . Conductor: Lorenzo Viotti . Director: Johannes Erath .  On October 15, the final performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust was staged in Valencia. With this production, the Palau de les Arts opens the season celebrating th

Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Firenze 17 th  October 2025 Voices: Luca Salsi, Vanessa Goikoetxea, Antonio Di Matteo, Antonio Poli, Lorenzo Martelli, Elizaveta Shuvalova, Egidio Massimo Naccarato, Huigang Liu, Lisandro Guinis, Dielli Hoxha, Nicolò Ayroldi, Aurora Spinelli, Caterina Pacchi . Conductor : Alexander Soddy . Director : Mario Martone .  The recent Macbeth at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino offered a dark, ambitious take on

Akhnaten, Philip Glass Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona 20 th  October 2025 Voices: Anthony Roth Costanzo, Rihab Chaieb, Katerina Estrada Tretyakova, Joan Martín-Royo, Toni Marsol, José Manuel Montero, Zachary James. Conductor: Karen Kamensek. Director: Phelim McDermott.  Akhnaten is the milestone of 20th-century minimalist music, and the orchestra that must perform the piece is also minimalist—no violins and very small. To this end, the Gran Teatre del Liceu has brought to B