Festival Verdi 2017 opens September 28 at Parma’s Teatro Regio with a performance of a revamped version of Jérusalem, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera in French, which premiered November 26, 1847 at the Paris Opéra.  Repeat performances: October 8, 12 and 20.

Melbourne-based composer Liza Lim was awarded for her composition How Forests Think in the “Instrumental Work of the Year” and for her opera Tree of Codes in the “Vocal / Choral Work of the Year” category.

Our new orchestra brochure presents a selection of orchestra works by renowned composers beyond their biggest „hits”, which deserve more attention.

The 2017 edition of the Salzburger Festspiele pays tribute to French composer Gérard Grisey (1946-1998) with a 6-concert series entitled TIME WITH GRISEY, featuring performances of his most important pieces by musicians of international stature.

The death in Chicago earlier this month of the musicologist Philip Gossett at age 76 marked the loss of one of the most influential scholars of Italian opera of the last half century. His untiring, groundbreaking work on the rediscovery and restoration of the operas of Rossini and Verdi left an indelible mark on modern performances and on the understanding of this repertory. One cannot overstate the influence of Gossett’s work on the study of 19th-century opera today.

Opening the 38th edition of the Rossini Opera Festival (August 10) will be Gioachino Rossini’s Le Siège de Corinthe – tragédie lyrique in three acts in the  new critical edition by Damien Colas.

Shi by Carlo Boccadoro, an opera in five scenes, with libretto by Cecilia Ligorio, opens the 53rd edition of the Macerata Opera Festival, July 20 at Teatro Lauro Rossi. Repeat performances: July 26, August 2 & 9.

Delitto e Dovere (Crime and Duty), a one-act opera, featuring music and libretto by Alberto E. Colla, makes its world premiere July 7 at the Festival di Spoleto. The story is loosely based on Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – A Study of Duty. 

The 60th edition of the Festival di Spoleto has commissioned Silvia Colasanti to compose a requiem in remembrance of the victims of last year’s earthquakes that rocked central Italy: Stringeranno nei pugni una cometa.

After twenty-five years since the publication of the last book on Franco Donatoni, the book Gravità senza peso brings together all the latest research into the works of this composer. The papers are in Italian, English and French. The book also includes a brief introduction by Pierre Boulez.