In July 2019, the Bregenz Festival presented Bernhard Lang’s Der Reigen. Five years after its world premiere in Schwetzingen, the opera finally had its first production in Lang’s native Austria.

Always an energetic and prolific artist, Dai Fujikura has had an active summer. We look back at his five most exciting events of the past few months.

Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore will be performed September 14 – October 29 at Theater Basel.

L’Inondation (The Flood), Francesco Filidei’s new opera makes its world premiere on September 27 at Opéra Comique in Paris.

Congratulations to Philip Venables for winning the 2019 FEDORA prize in the opera category for his stage work Denis & Katya. As revealed in the award ceremony on 28 June, the opera will receive €150,000 in funding for its world premiere at the Opera Philadelphia in the upcoming 2019/20 season. 

Running August 11-23 in Pesaro, it’s the 40th edition of ROF, the Rossini Opera Festival. 

On Tuesday, June 25 the Simonetta Puccini Foundation for Giacomo Puccini and Casa Ricordi signed an important agreement.

On July 26 the definitive version of Claudio Ambrosini’s Tancredi appresso il Combattimento (“Tancredi After the Battle”) will be performed at the Cantiere Festival in Montepulciano.

Bernhard Lang listens to Georg Friedrich Haas’s Koma

After the most recent staging of his chamber opera Bound in New York City, Huang Ruo is preparing for an upcoming orchestral premiere with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and an all-new opera at the Santa Fe Opera, M. Butterfly.