After performances at London’s Royal Opera House and NYC’s Prototype Festival, Philip Venables’ award-winning 4.48 Psychosis has finally had its debut in a new German language version at the Semperoper Dresden.

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The panel of judges at the prestigious 2019 Franco Abbiati Music Critics Award announced the winners for the 38th edition. Giorgio Battistelli’s Richard III was awarded in the 'New Italy section 2018'.

May 25 marks the world premiere of Vittorio Montalti’s latest opera, Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana. Opera quasi intelligente, at Florence’s Teatro Goldoni, as part of the annual music festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Climbing-Dancing, Concert for Cello and Orchestra 'for Trisha' by Bernard Foccroulle will have its world premiere on May 29 in Brussels.

April started with a bang—quite a few, actually—with the world premiere of Sarah Nemtsov’s En face, a double concerto for solo percussion, narrator and large orchestra.

»It was nerve-racking and tear-jerkingly beautiful. Exactly how one imagined opera should be.« (Kleine Zeitung)

Coming April 18, Luca Francesconi’s opera Quartett plays in Dortmund for its German premiere. Repeat performances through May 17.

Each of his works was unique and daring. On 20 March, the Swiss composer Hans Wüthrich died at the age of 81 in Arlesheim.

March 31 marks the world premiere of Mauro Lanza’s Experiments in the Revival of Organisms in Köln, Germany, with a performance by the WDR Sinfonie Orchester Köln, conducted by Ilan Volkov.