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Piano en Valois Festival

14 - 21 Nov 2009 (various dates)

The tinkling of ivory keys fills the air in Angoulême during the annual Piano en Valois Festival. Recitals take place in venues across town during two weeks of classical and jazz piano music…

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Manca Music Festival, Nice. © CIRM, Centre National de Création Musicale

Nice Manca Music Festival

13 - 29 Nov 2009 (annual)

Nice's National Centre of Musical Creation (CIRM) organises the annual Nice Manca Music Festival, with performances in selected venues across Nice, Monaco and Grasse. The programme of concerts…

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Viola. © Photo by Bree Hogg, Whatsonwhen

Orchestres En Fête

20 - 29 Nov 2009 (annual)

A vast programme of classical music concerts - all free or heavily discounted - hits France during November's Orchestres En Fête. Take a friend to the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

2 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Autumn Festival In Normandy

11 Oct - 2 Dec 2009 (annual)

The Autumn Festival in Normandy presents 60 performances in cities including Dieppe, Rouen and Le Havre, as well as smaller towns like Le Grand-Quevilly, Le Mesnil-Esnard, Fécamp and Montivilliers.

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

6 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

8 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Piano Nights in Marseille. © Albatros

Piano Nights

10 Oct - 11 Dec 2009 (annual)

As autumn sets in, the cream of classical piano talent descends on Provence for Piano Nights (Les Nuits Pianistiques). A three-month series of classical music concerts, it is held in towns…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

11 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Paris' Cité de la Musique, exterior. Photo © Pierre-Emmanuel Rastoin, courtesy Cité de la Musique

Ciné Concerts - Eisenstein & Gance

9 - 13 Dec 2009; not Thu or Fri

Paris' ever-innovative Cité de la Musique brings together three ground-breaking early movies in a mini-series of Ciné Concerts. Eisenstein's classic historical epics Alexander Nevsky (9…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

14 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

17 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Grenoble Piano Festival

10 - 19 Dec 2009 (annual)

What's on at the Grenoble Piano Festival in the Théâtre Ste-Marie D'en Bas? Well, there'll be jazz, contemporary and classical piano-playing, plus the sort of piano-playing that can only be…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

21 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

24 - 25 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

27 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

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Palais Garnier, in the heart of Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Platée

29 - 30 Dec 2009 (various dates)

Director Laurent Pelly and conductor Mark Minkowski team up again for this production of Rameau's 1745 "lyric comedy" Platée at Paris' Palais Garnier. Tenors Paul Agnew and Jean-Paul…

Paris' Opéra Bastille, main home of the Opéra national de Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield, © Whatsonwhen

Werther

14 Jan 2010 (various dates)

Jules Massenet's Werther, in Benoît Jacquot's Covent Garden production, is seen at Paris' Opéra Bastille for the first time. Michel Plasson conducts Jonas Kaufmann as the tragic poet, with…

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Outside Paris' Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Photo Nick Breckenfield © Whatsonwhen

Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestre National de France

14 - 15 Jan 2010

Italian firebrand Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestre National de France at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Spanish-inspired music. Ravel's Rhapsodie espagnole, Alborada del gracioso and…

Paris' Opéra Bastille, main home of the Opéra national de Paris. Photo Nick Breckenfield, © Whatsonwhen

Werther

17 Jan 2010 (various dates)

Jules Massenet's Werther, in Benoît Jacquot's Covent Garden production, is seen at Paris' Opéra Bastille for the first time. Michel Plasson conducts Jonas Kaufmann as the tragic poet, with…


Highlights

Piano en Valois Festival

Angoulême

14 - 21 Nov 2009 (various dates)

Nice Manca Music Festival

Nice Opera, Nice

13 - 29 Nov 2009 (annual)

Orchestres En Fête

Bordeaux

20 - 29 Nov 2009 (annual)