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.

April sees two world premieres for Angélica Negrón.

In this interview, Olga Neuwirth talks about her new 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.

Dopo il successo delle produzioni di Alice, Poucette e Zazie, l'eclettico compositore italiano Matteo Franceschini torna sul palcoscenico scegliendo il Dorian Gray di Oscar Wilde come soggetto per la nuova opera commissionata dalla Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento.

In November 2023, Sarah Nemtsov's tetralogy TZIMTZUM (2020-2023) for soloist ensemble and orchestra, which takes up Kabbalistic myths of creation, was performed in its entirety for the first time. The WDR Sinfonieorchester, ensemble Nikel and Peter Rundel presented its world premiere at the NOW Festival in Essen, two days after the premiere of the final part, K'lipot, at the Kölner Philharmonie.