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Les Délices & SalonEraCleverness from Cleveland: SalonEra, a real treasure-trove
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.
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Trondheim's Early Music FestivalIn Norway, a Barokkfest under the snow
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.
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Passing on The Four SeasonsA Masterclass with Giuliano Carmignola in Paris
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.
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Valletta Baroque festivalMalta, Europe’s musical rendezvous in January
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.
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Diary of a Sopranist Physician (3/3)Philipp Mathmann: from the WHO to David & Jonathas
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!
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Diary of a sopranist physician (2/3)Philipp Mathmann: Slaloming Between Medicine and Music
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!
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Salzburg Diary (3/3)A Turbulent Opening Night of “Giulio Cesare” with Lucile Richardot
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!
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A Salzburg Diary, 2025 (2/3)At the general of “Giulio Cesare” with Lucile Richardot
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.
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A Salzburg Diary, 2025 (1/3)Behind the scenes of “Giulio Cesare” with Lucile Richardot
Last summer at the Salzburg Festspiele, French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot performed Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, in a staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov and with Emmanuelle Haïm as musical director. Between a bike ride, a rehearsal and a quick meal, she agreed to share with us the diary she kept during this singular adventure!
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Julie Roset's Diary (3/3)Opening Night at the Met in New York!
At 28, soprano Julie Roset makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York this November 2025. She agreed to share her rehearsal diary, filled with very personal reflections, with Total Baroque Magazine. Discover the third and final episode of her chronicle: opening night!
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Julie Roset’s Diary (2/3)First Rehearsals at the Met in New York!
The second instalment of our series: between intense first rehearsals for Arabella at the Met, warm reunions with friends, and autumn breaths of fresh air in the city, 28-year-old Julie Roset keeps a captivating diary of her debut at the celebrated New York opera house.
