For a long time, Sasha Waltz and Georg Friedrich Haas wished to collaborate but never had an opportunity to realize the plan. That changed when Waltz took over as co-intendant of the Berlin State Ballet in August 2019.

With The Murder of Halit Yozgat, the Australian composer Ben Frost, known for his very diverse oeuvre of experimental and electronic music, is making his second opera on a dark subject.

Along with Sex Magic, a large work for for contrabass flute, live electronics and an installation of kinetic instruments, written for Claire Chase, there is the Annunciation Triptych for orchestra, which is being given its world premiere at the Achtbrücken Festival in Cologne, with soprano Emily Hindrichs and the WDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Cristian Măcelaru.

Salvatore Sciarrino’s upcoming works are slated for publication by Casa Ricordi. They’ll be added to the composer’s already extensive catalogue of music published by Ricordi, which dates from 1969 to 2004.

Casa Ricordi is proud to co-publish L'eredità dei giusti by Marco Tutino, in conjunction with Suvini Zerboni. The effort is part of a longstanding tradition in music publishing, which has always been a voice for civic engagement, and thanks to which stories of wrongdoing and denouncement of have played out on the world’s stages.

The composer Vinko Globokar has received the 2022 German Music Authors’ Prize of GEMA, the German performing rights organization.

2022 opens with new symphonic creations for grand occasions: new works by Ambrosini, Battistelli, Boccadoro, Francesconi, Haas, Shin.

In this interview with Regine Palmai, Philip Venables talks about his opera and the specifics of the German version.

The Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös has reworked his 1999 viola concerto Replica to a commission from the Berlin Staatskapelle.

Catching, Courageous, Cutting Edge – Bonn Opera and the Hanover State Opera present world premieres, national premieres, rediscoveries and special concerts.