Composed in 1968 by Astor Piazzolla to a libretto by Horacio Ferrer, María de Buenos Aires occupies a singular place in twentieth-century music theatre. Neither opera nor musical, it fuses tango nuevo with surrealist poetry to create a ritual of

Just in time for Christmas 2025, we decided to feature an ARTE performance that transcends conventional concert formats. Babx & Adrien Mondot present Piano Piano, a multidisciplinary project that combines live music, visual art, digital projection, and performative gestures into

Recorded on 30 May 2023, the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä invited Sol Gabetta and Willard White for a programme featuring selected works by Shostakovich and Walton. Shostakovich and Walton, two composers separated by geography but united by the

On 17 September 2025, conductor Riccardo Minasi, flautist Emmanuel Pahud and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra joined forces for a concert dedicated to Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn, with a Debussy encore. At the heart of the program is Mozart’s Flute

Filmed in the open-air embrace of the 2025 Usedomer Musikfestival, Camilla Nylund steps forward to reclaim Jean Sibelius from the monumental shadow of his symphonies. She is not merely an interpreter, but a luminous conduit for Sibelius’ soul-stirring introspection. The

On 7 January 2025, the vaulted nave of Notre-Dame, once scarred by the inferno of 15 April 2019, reverberated once more with sacred cadences of voices and strings. Notre-Dame de Paris emerged from its chrysalis of scaffolding and silence into

In the grand tradition of symphonic music, few works capture the raw anguish of human suffering quite like Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor. Composed amid the rubble of World War II, this five-movement epic stands as a

In the realm of classical music, collaboration can ignite a spark that surpasses the brilliance of individual talents, creating something transcendent and wholly unique. When artists of profound skill and distinct voices unite, their interplay becomes a conversation that breathes