A 2020-2021 World-Premiere selection of electronic creations, conceived for the chamber ensemble dimension. A mosaic of a host of musical languages and the search for far-out sounds.

Giorgio Battistelli is the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Music, by La Biennale di Venezia, “for his work in experimental musical theatre and his intense operatic production, staged by the most important European institutions”.

The 2021/2022 Season has officially started in Milan and Paris: Verdi's Macbeth at La Scala and Puccini's Turandot at the Paris Opera.

New work for accordion and orchestra by Francesca Verunelli. Commissioned by musica viva des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

Huang Ruo’s newest theater work, Book of Mountains and Seas, premiered at the Royal Danish Theater on Nov. 3, 2021, by Ars Nova Copenhagen, Music Director Paul Hillier, Director/Puppetry Artist Basil Twist, and producer Beth Morrison Projects.

Tikkun is the last part of Sarah Nemtsov’s tetralogy Tzimtzum, a cycle based on mystical ideas of the Creation. The world premiere, with Ensemble Nikel and Ensemble Resonanz conducted by Emilio Pomárico, takes place in Hamburg during the festival “5 Years of Elbphilharmonie”.

30 years ago, programme booklets were still written with typewriters and Ricordi still had its own record label (Dischi Ricordi). It was also 30 years ago that Liza Lim first had works published by Ricordi – Garden of Earthly Desire and Voodoo Child – on the recommendation of conductor Sandro Gorli.

Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award for her opera Orlando.

For 100 years now, the Donaueschinger Musiktage have been synonymous with New Music. On this anniversary we look forward with special interest to the premieres of Francesco Filidei, Yair Klartag, Liza Lim and Enno Poppe.

Highly esteemed by his contemporaries, the legendary conductor, composer and pedagogue Alexander Zemlinsky was born 150 years ago this October. His opera fragment Malva from 1912 had its world premiere at the National Theatre in Prague as part of musica non grata's Zemlinsky 150 festival.