Dedicated to the ageless works of William Shakespeare, the Salzburg Taschenopernfestival presented the world premiere of Sarah Nemtsov’s “miniature opera-monologue” verflucht in September 2019.

In the new opera Denis & Katya, composer Philip Venables, librettist and director Ted Huffman, along with dramaturge Ksenia Ravvina, transform the true story of two lovers pitted against the world into a novel drama about adolescence.

October 5 marks the world premiere in Venice of Claudio Ambrosini’s Rappresentazione di anima e corpo for soprano, bass clarinet and orchestra.

On October 3, Songbook by Tovel (aka Matteo Franceschini) makes its world premiere at Biennale Venice. Following the presentation of the 2019 Silver Lion for Music.

A busy fall is in store for Luca Francesconi in Milano. La Scala, and Milano Musica Festival will be presenting his most important compositions.

In “The Almonac” Henrik Almon, library manager at Ricordi Berlin, presents works from the publishers’ inexhaustible repertoire that are worth hearing straight away yet are rather seldom to be found in the programming of the major opera houses and orchestras.

Yair Klartag, Donghoon Shin and Lisa Streich have won the second ricordilab international composers’ competition.

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.

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.

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