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September 2012 :
Opening of the season with the Orchestre national de Lyon (Leonard Slatkin conducts the Berlioz Requiem with other 400 people on stage) and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (ft. Menahem Pressler).
Boris Berezovsky pays tribute to Brigitte Engerer at the Auditorium du Louvre.

August 2012 :
Ariadne auf Naxos, with Jonas Kaufmann, live from Salzburg.
Claudio Abbado conducts the Mozart Requiem at the Lucerne Festival.
2nd edition of the partnership with Annecy Classic Festival: Denis Matsuev, Charles Dutoit, Henri Demarquette, Bertrand Chamayou, Nikolai Lugansky, Thierry Escaich...

July 2012 :
First collaboration with the New York Philharmonic: Philharmonic 360: Spatial music from Mozart to Stockhausen, conducted by Alan Gilbert at Park Avenue Armory.
Live broadcast of the world premiere of G. Benjamin's opera Written on Skin at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Le Monde writes: "It is the best opera written in the last 20 years".
6th edition of the partnership with Verbier Festival: 24 live concerts with Martha Argerich, Rolando Villazón, Denis Matsuev, Alexandre Tharaud, Masaaki Suzuki, Menahem Pressler, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon...

June 2012 :
2012 Operalia: final round of Plácido Domingo's singing competition live from the Beijing NCPA.
2012 Waldbühne: the Berliner Philharmoniker's summer concert, with A. Nelsons and D. Kashimoto.

May 2012 :
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker – 2012 Europakonzert.
medici.tv partner of MUSICORA (Paris).
medici.tv follows Tugan Sokhiev and l'Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in a tour across the world (with Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Bertrand Chamayou).

April 2012 :
Easter concert of the Wiener Symphoniker.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Amsterdam.
Valery Gergiev live from Moscow: 4 concerts dedicated to Prokofiev (Moscow Easter Festival).

March 2012 :
Rossini's Otello, filmed at the Zurich Opernhaus, with Cecilia Bartoli and John Osborn (directed for stage by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier).
Live from the Opéra national de Paris: Pelléas et Mélisande, directed by Robert Wilson (1997). With Stéphane Degout, Elena Tsallagova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Vincent Le Texier. Conducted by Philippe Jordan.
Bernard Haitink conducts Beethoven live at Salle Pleyel (3 concerts)

February 2012 :
Christian Thielemann conducts Ariadne auf Naxos, opera by Richard Strauss, with Renée Fleming, Sophie Koch, Robert Dean Smith... (Festspielhaus de Baden-Baden).

January 2012 :
Pierre Henry: world premiere of Paroxysmes live from his home in Paris.

December 2011 :
La Forza del destino, Verdi, with Violeta Urmana and Marcelo Àlvarez – Opéra national de Paris.
First collaboration with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, with Tugan Sokhiev and Olga Borodina.
medici.tv's catalogue reaches 900 programmes, or 1,000 hours of classical music!

November 2011 :
Three concerts of Hélène Grimaud live from la Salle Pleyel and la Cité de la musique.
First live webcast of a Spanish orchestra ever: Barcelona Orchestra, music director: Pablo Gonzales.

October 2011 :
Final round of the Neue Stimmen singing competition in Germany.
Beginning of the complete Monteverdi Madrigali by Les Arts Florissants (Paul Agnew).
Les Arts Florissants in La Didone, Francesco Cavalli, directed by Clément Hervieu-Léger.

September 2011 :
9/11: live from New York, a whole day of concerts at Trinity Church – Gil Shaham and Luca Pisaroni take part to the celebrations.

August 2011 :
Renee Fleming and Christian Thielemann at the Salzburg Festival.
First edition of the Annecy Classic Festival (artistic director: Denis Matsuev). Nine concerts.

July 2011:
Anoushka Shankar at the Festival de Músiques Religioses i del Món de Girona: world premiere for the album Traveller
Saint-Denis Festival: John Nelson
Verbier Festival 2011: 24 concerts
Operalia 2011: Final Round (in Moscow)

June 2011 :
Montreal International Musical Competition, final round (two nights of live broadcast
Cité de la musique: Les Arts florissants (conductor: William Christie), La Venexiana (conductor: Claudio Cavina)
Auditorium du Louvre: Lars Vogt, Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff

May 2011 :
Berliner Philharmoniker: Europakonzert 2011 (Rattle / Canizares) at the Teatro Real de Madrid
Salle Pleyel: Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan (05-12), Daniel Barenboïm and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (05-21), a few days after their concert in the Gaza Strip
Orchestre national de Lyon: Christian Zacharias (12/05), Renaud Capuçon (26/05)
Auditorium du Louvre: Quatuor Takács

April 2011 :
Cité de la musique: The Complete Beethoven Symphonies by La Chambre Philharmonique under the baton of Emmanuel Krivine
NCPA Beijing: First live webcast from the opera house in Beijing on an international website. Yundi and Zuohuang Chen perform Chopin and Liszt.
medici.tv enjoys Liszt's 200th birthday with Jean-Philippe Collard at the Salle Colonne (Paris).

March 2011:
Launching of medici.tv’s new version v2
Launching of the iPhone and iPad applications
Medici.tv now becomes available in French, English, Japanese and Chinese
La Scala: Georges Prêtre
Cité de la musique: Menahem Pressler, Skip Sempé et Pierre Hantaï, Lang Lang

February 2011:
Opéra national de Paris: Caligula by Nicolas Le Riche
620 programs are now available totaling more than 750 hours of filmed music

January 2011:
La Scala: Daniel Harding
Orchestre national de Lyon: Ton Koopman
Cité de la Musique: Borodin Quartet

December 2010:
New Year’s Concert: Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Gustavo Dudamel with Elina Garanca
Opéra National de Paris: Les Noces de Figaro in Giorgio Strehler’s legendary production
Nobel Price Concert: Joshua Bell and Sakari Oramo

October 2010:
Stradivarius Evening at the Louvre with the Nippon Music Foundation
New institutional subscritpions available for conservatories, music schools, universities...
New partnership with the Auditorium du Louvre: Soloists of the Atelier Lyrique of the l'Opéra National de Paris, followed by 6 concerts

September 2010:
Luzerne Festival: Closing night concert with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Gustavo Dudamel

July 2010:
Verbier Festival: 31 concerts broadcasted live online and the iPhone application
Glyndebourne Festival: Don Giovanni conducted by Vladimir Jurowski

June 2010:
Saint-Denis Festival

May 2010:
Medici.tv celebrates its two years. For this occasion, 4 exceptional concerts are broadcasted the same weekend: the final of the Operalia contest with Placido Domingo, the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Filarmonica della Scala, Jean-François Zygel and Antoine Hervé.
Partnership with ROLEX

April 2010:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam

March 2010:
MUSEEC becomes the owner of medici.tv

February 2010:
Opéra National de Paris: La Somnambule, Bellini
Partnership with the Orchestre National de Lyon
Vladimir Jurowski – Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

January 2010:
Creation of MUSEEC
Opéra National de Paris: Werther
Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, live from the Salle Pleyel

December 2009:
Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm: Yuri Temirkanov and Martha Argerich

November 2009:
Third grant from MEDIA, supporting program of the European Union
Luxembourg Philharmonica: Emmanuel Krivine and Nicholas Angelich
Auditorium du Louvre: Quatuor Takács

October 2009:
Auditorium du Louvre: Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

September 2009:
Partnership with the Auditorium du Louvre: Akiko Suwanai and Nicholas Angelich, followed by 5 concerts during the 2009/2010 season

August 2009:
Luzerne Festival: Claudio Abbado and Yuja Wang

July 2009:
Verbier Festival 2009: 29 concerts

June 2009:
Saint Denis Festival
Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, live from the Waldbühne

May 2009:
medici.tv celebrates its first anniversary with more than 3 million viewed concerts and 400.000 single visitors coming from over 180 countries.

April 2009:
medici.tv is selected and featured in the ICONS/Taschen book gathering the best video websites on the web.

March 2009:
Second grant from the CNC

January 2009:
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe: 2 concerts with Hélène Grimaud, Valery Sokolov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Jurowski at the Cité de la Musique
medici.tv receives the Internet award 2008 at the Midem Classical Awards
Partenarship with Radio France for the broadcast of 25 concerts from the series "D’une Rive à l’Autre" and "Déclic".

December 2008:
Pierre Boulez and the Orchestre de Paris under the Louvre pyramid
Prix Nobel Concert live from Stockholm with John Eliot Gardiner
Partnership with the Victoires de la Musique: broadcast of the "Révélations"

November 2008:
First live webcast of the Opéra national de Paris: The Cunning Little Vixen by Janacek

October 2008:
Second grant from MEDIA, the European Union’s support program

September 2008:
Orchestre National de France and Daniele Gatti at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées

July 2008:
Verbier Festival 2008: 28 concerts

June 2008:
Festival International d’Aix en Provence: Zaïde, produced by Peter Sellars
Aspen Music Festival & School: 10 concerts
medici.tv is runner up in the prestigious San Francisco Flashforward Festival in the "Best Video Website"
First grant from the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)

May 1st 2008:
Official launch of medici.tv with a Berliner Philharmoniker concert conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, live from Moscow

February 2008:
medici‐arts.tv becomes medici.tv, on the occasion of the historical concert of the New York Philharmonic in North Korea broadcasted lived from Pyongyang

November 2007:
First grant from MEDIA, the European Union’s support program

July 2007:
Launch of the Beta version (medici‐arts.tv) for the Verbier Festival 2007. 29 concerts are broadcasted live on the internet free of charge: a world premiere.