With their new opera Dora, composer Bernhard Lang and author Frank Witzel enthralled the audience at the Staatsoper Stuttgart to a storm of applause. At the Landestheater Linz, Reinhard Febel (music and text) impressed the audience with his opera Benjamin Button.

Lucia Ronchetti is staging two new operas in spring 2024: Der Doppelgänger, commissioned by the SWR Schwetzingen Festspiele in co-production with Luzerner Theater, and Searching for Zenobia, commissioned by the Munich Biennale in co-production with Staatstheater Braunschweig.

Kevin Puts' acclaimed opera The Hours returns to the Metropolitan Opera only a season after its sold-out, world premiere production.

April sees two world premieres for Angélica Negrón.

In this interview, Olga Neuwirth talks about her new orchestra work Keyframes for a Hippogriff— Musical Calligrams for Countertenor, Children's Choir, and Orchestra and her special relationship to Berlin.

As this year's portrait composer, the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik will present Francesca Verunelli, a composer whose intensive relationship to chamber music comes to the fore in a talk concert with two string quartets.

From 9 to 14 April, Lisa Streich is celebrated in Konserthuset Stockholm's Composer Weekend 2024 including the world premiere of her trumpet concerto MEDUSE.

The Staatskapelle Dresden bids farewell to its Capell-Compositeur with the world premiere of I don't know how to cry under the baton of Susanna Mälkki in April.

Cologne's Eight Bridges Festival has selected Enno Poppe as this year's portrait composer.

Julia Wolfe has been appointed the Inaugural Festival Director at Cincinnati’s prestigious May Festival for their 151st year.