Rehearsals began in October for Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando. Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same name, the opera will have its premiere at the Vienna State Opera on 8 December.

October 2019 brought the world premiere of Yair Klartag’s Concerto Grosso. The ricordilab laureate’s new work was presented by the Meitar Ensemble and Thelma Yellin Orchestra conducted by Pierre-André Valade.

Losing Earth, Adam Schoenberg’s new percussion concerto, was given its premiere by the San Francisco Symphony under Cristian Măcelaru.

The present critical edition, available now on sale, is based on the partly autograph manuscript preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin (Foà 39).

On November 22 Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera Orchestra presents the world premiere of Un romano a Marte by Vittorio Montalti. Book by Giuliano Compagno.

This year Donizetti Opera festival programs Lucrezia Borgia in the new critical edition by Roger Parker and Rosie Ward. Lucrezia Borgia is considered one of Donizetti’s most innovative operas.

This year, the jury at the international competition for compositions for youth string quartets, convened on September 30 in Milano to announce the winners of the competition’s third edition.

The composer Nikolaus Brass turned 70 on 23 October 2019, and the occasion is being marked with several events in November.

Six made-to-order concerts at six sites in a historic city: in September 2019 Georg Friedrich Haas was in the midst of an extraordinary musical event. Dr. Silke Hilger, General Manager of Ricordi Berlin, accompanied the composer to Italy and describes her impressions in this travel report.

In September 2019, Enno Poppe's violin concerto Schnur, commissioned by the Bonn Beethovenfest, was premiered by Carolin Widmann and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under its new principal conductor Alan Gilbert.