As I write this editorial, the international news does not give cause for optimism.

Conflicts, threats and wars seem to be taking our world into a downward spiral.

And yet, Nuits Lyriques 2025 is a timely reminder that OPERA is an art that brings people together, federates and unites them, from the West to the Far East, from Western to Eastern Europe, from the Old World to the Americas…

The wide range of origins of the candidates for the Concours International de Chant bears witness to this.

So, music lovers, aficionados and neophytes of lyrical art from all over the world, let’s unite!

And let us hope in a humanity that prefers sharing to division, respect to rejection, brotherhood to hatred, dialogue to violence, the beauty of the soul to the ugliness of evil.

In the face of adverse winds, let’s make the Nuits lyriques 2025 events our own, as acts of resistance, positivity, confidence and Life!

Philippe Mestres, President