Photography: Tugan Sokhiev, music director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. © Patrice Nin
	> The French soprano Natalie Dessay announced she would make a break in her carreer in 2015 (Le Figaro), > The cantonese opera in Hong Kong, the Sunbeam Theatre, which was supposed to close this week and to be replaced by a mall, has finally been saved, > The 17th edition of the Victoires de la musique classique in France will reward Renée Fleming with a Victoire d'honneur. Antoine Tamestit, Adam Laloum, Sophie Koch, Alexandre Tharaud, orPatricia Petibon could be rewarded too ...				The Winter Festival in Baden-Baden is getting started! Learn more about the impossible love between Elsa von Brabant and her "sparkling Knight", thanks to the Wagner Lohengrin staged by Nikolaus Lehnoff in 2006. A documentary on this production, and on the work itself, which mixes legends of the Middle Age, German folklore and sorcery... It was the big success of the summer 2010. This production of Don Giovanni has been acclaimed for its sets and costumes, its musical direction (Vladimir Jurowski), its staging (Jonathan Kent), and its fantastic cast (notably Brindley Sherratt playing the Commandeur, Gerald Finley playing Don Giovanni andAnna Samuil performing Donna Anna). To the lucky New Yorkers: Gerald Finley and Luca Pisaroni (Leporello) take their roles back at the Metropolitan Opera starting on February 21!  The life of the great American tenor (1904-1984)narrated by Isaac Stern, who met the singer several times. A documentary made of footage shot during the flourishing carreer of Jan Peerce, who sang until he was 76. Note: the same Isaac Stern is also the violinist for whom Dutilleux wrote his violin concerto L'Arbre des songes, which will be performed by Renaud Capuçon this Friday.