My cultural calendar in 2024

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Another year with some very memorable events. I traveled to Colmar just to hear Franco Fagioli in Polifemo yet again, as last year in Amsterdam was a concert version, and this was staged. Loved it!

Hearing Julia Lezhneva with Ton Koopman, on his 80th birthday in Brussels, was a treat. Koopman, Lezhneva, Handel, bliss. And more Handel in Paris, where the beautiful voices of Elsa Dreisig and Sandrine Piau shone most brightly.

My stop in London with three nights of theatre showed me three powerful productions, with Coriolanus and Oedipus being shouldn’t-be-missed performances.

The year wrapped up with an impressive production in Stockholm, bit of a pastiche of Kristina Lugns’s writings, very gripping, and with an especially eye-opening performance by Lotte Tejle whom I had only seen in a TV series. What a great finish!

Dramaten : Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm

Titta en älg

December 28, 2024

Church of St Germain-des-Prés, Paris

Messiah

Choeur et Orchestre Paul Kuentz

December 7, 2024

Trafalgar Theatre

The Duchess

Jodie Whittaker

November 1, 2024

Wyndham’s Theatre

Oedipus

October 31, 2024

National Theatre

Coriolanus

David Oyelowo

October 30, 2024

Bozar

Handel: Esther

Julia Lezhneva

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (celebrating his 80th birthday)

October 24, 2024

Église Notre-Dame-La-Riche

La Nuit des Églises

Vocal In Corde, directed by Séverin Treille

Concert d’oeuvres pour choeur

June 30, 2024

L’orangerie du château des ducs de la Trémoïlle, Thouars

75th Salon des vins et terroirs

March 23-24, 2024

Maastricht

TEFAF Arts fair

March 12-14, 2024

L’Opéra Comédie, Montpellier

Sens dessus dessous

Andre Dussollier

February 23, 2024

Saint Georges d’Orques

Concert à l’Eglise

January 11, 2024

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