Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) today announced that Natasha Baldwin has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Classics and Screen. Based in London, she will report to Jody Gerson, UMPG Chairman and CEO, and Marc Cimino, UMPG Chief Operating Officer.

Susanna Mälkki – chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic – is a compelling advocate of contemporary music.

Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Matteo Franceschini’s latest opera for 5 singers, boys’ choir, actors and orchestra, will be premiere on May 28 at the Philharmonie in Paris.

From 21 June to 12 July, the critical edition of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, edited by Claudio Toscani, will be performed at the Zurich Opera House under the baton of Fabio Luisi. Performed for the first time in November 2000 at the Teatro Massimo in Catania, this edition of I Capuleti e i Montecchi was also staged in Hannover, London, Leipzig, Munich, Rome, Salzburg and Tokyo, among others.

On the 10th anniversary of his death, Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004) is at the centre of numerous musicological studies and international concert programmes. On October 8, the London Sinfonietta present the London premiere of AN INDEX OF METALS; altogether, this video opera was performed more than 50 times all over the world so far.

We spoke with Jean-Luc Plouvier, the pianist and artistic director of the Ictus Ensemble, about their special relationship with Romitelli.

The Goya Symphony from 1938 is a typical work of Manfred Gurlitt as it combines late Expressionism, neoclassicism and free tonality.