From February 4 to 28, French countertenor Rémy Brès-Feuillet travelled across Europe with the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, conducted by Francesco Corti, for a tour of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, alongside, among others, Sabine Devieilhe and Jakub Józef Orliński. One month, ten cities, twelve concerts: a chronicle of an intense tour experienced from the inside.
Twelve concerts in ten cities: from February 4 to 28, French countertenor Rémy Brès-Feuillet chronicled the Giulio Cesare in Egitto tour by the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro conducted by Francesco Corti, notably with Sabine Devieilhe and Jakub Józef Orliński. Rehearsals in Vienna, travel logistics, company spirit, first nerves… a road diary from city to city.
Three years of preparation for a three-hour performance the impressive work of historical research and musical preparation led by Mathilde Etienne and Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, at the head of the ensemble I Gemelli, comes to fruition this March with the re-creation of Roland, an unjustly neglected work from Lully’s repertoire, at the Royal Opera of Versailles.
In addition to its regular concert season in Cleveland and Akron, the ensemble Les Délices offers an award-winning early music webseries and podcast that highlights the work of a diverse range of musicians and historians. The best part? SalonEra is free of geographic or conventional programming limitations.
In Trondheim, population 200,000, the world’s northernmost Gothic cathedral hosts the Barokkfest Early Music Festival every January. New for 2026: ‘Spartaco’, an opera created in 1726 in Vienna by Neapolitan composer Giuseppe Porcile. The cast includes Sophie Junker, Luigi Morassi and Josè Maria Lo Monaco, conducted by festival director and musical director Martin Wåhlberg.
In Paris, Italian violinist Giuliano Carmignola led an exceptional masterclass for the prizewinners of the Talents & Violon’celles Foundation: a day devoted to passing on knowledge through Vivaldi’s most famous work. And an unforgettable experience for a new generation of violinists.
For the 14th time, Europe’s musical world gathers in January at the Valletta Baroque Festival in Malta. Rarely-performed works, musicians from every country, a highly international audience. A notable event this year: the city, founded in 1565 by the French knight Jean de La Valette, is hosting a fully staged opera, Pelopida, by the Maltese composer Girolamo Abos.
Philipp Mathmann divides his time between two demanding worlds. A familiar figure on international opera and concert stages, the soprano also pursues a career as a doctor. Here is the final instalment devoted to his unusual career path!
He performs on the world’s greatest opera and concert stages, but Philipp Mathmann also practises another particularly demanding profession: medicine. This double life enriches his daily existence, makes it more intense… even if the two spheres sometimes collide!
A cargo-bike ride, onstage brawls, bruises on the body and a lost contact lens: the final episode of Lucile Richardot’s Salzburg diary, during the rehearsals and the opening night of “Giulio Cesare” in the summer of 2025, holds a few surprises!
Rain, marathon rehearsals, stress before the continuo run-through: in the second instalment of her Giulio Cesare diary in Salzburg, where she performed Cornelia last summer, French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot continues her chronicle of the adventure that is a production by director Dmitri Tcherniakov.
