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.

Two music theater pieces celebrating world premieres: the opera Hiob based on the novel with the same name by Joseph Roth, commissioned by the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, and The Travel Agency is on Fire based on a text by William S. Burroughs presented by soyuz21 - contemporary music ensemble zürich.

At the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2022, world premieres by Georg Friedrich Haas, Hannah Kendall, Bernhard Lang und Mauro Lanza have been presented.

The Augsburg State Theatre has addressed the man-made apocalypse in the form a staged oratorio with a multi-disciplinary cast of singers, dancers and actors. Haydn’s Creation is confronted not only by contemporary literature but also by a new composition from Bernhard Lang that brings Haydn’s classical tradition into the modern age.

Politics and power, society and manipulation – these are the key issues of Bernhard Lang’s latest “political theatre works”: the chamber opera Playing Trump, commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera, and the large-scale music theatre Der Hetzer (The Rabble Rouser), commissioned by the Dortumund Opera.

The Stage Is Not Enough – Spatial Sounds

The renowned soloist ensemble Klangforum Wien is performing three premieres from the Ricordi repertoire.