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Rossini Opera Festival honors the composer’s 150th anniversary

Posted by Ricordi 31 July 2018

To mark the 150 years since the death of Gioachino Rossini, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro will be featuring Adina and Ricciardo e Zoraide, two operas whose histories hark back to 1818, two centuries ago.

Haas & Francesconi: two WPs at BBC Proms

Posted by Ricordi 18 July 2018

In July, as part of this year’s BBC Proms program, the London Sinfonietta, conducted by George Benjamin, will be presenting the world premieres of We Wept by Luca Francesconi and the last minutes of inhumanity by Georg Friedrich Haas.

Huang Ruo: An American Soldier premiered in the USA

Posted by Ricordi 26 June 2018

An extended version of An American Soldier by Huang Ruo has given its world premiere at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Conductor Michael Christie talks about the work and the current situation of opera in the U.S.

Liza Lim: Tree of Codes at Spoleto Festival USA

Posted by Ricordi 26 June 2018

Liza Lim’s fourth opera Tree of Codes was staged anew on 26 May by Singaporean director Ong Ken Sen in the framework of the Spoleto Festival in Charleston.

Shiori Usui: WP of Pya-ryu

Posted by Ricordi 14 June 2018

The world premiere of Shiori Usui’s Pya-ryu for solo clarinet and orchestra marked the close of a series of compositions commissioned in the framework of RicordiLab 2016.

SOLARIS: Premiere in Augsburg

Posted by Ricordi 14 June 2018

May 18 saw the German premiere of Dai Fujikura’s SOLARIS at the Theater Augsburg.

Battistelli: Richard III in Venice at La Fenice

Posted by Ricordi 29 May 2018

Look forward to the Italian premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Richard III, a play in two acts set to music, this June 29 at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice.