In 2012 Heiner Goebbels became Artistic Director of Ruhrtriennale for three years. In his final season, he now presents his stage work Surrogate Cities in a new production in Duisburg. Heiner Goebbels tells us more in this interview.

Rolf Riehm’s Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens will be premiered at Oper Frankfurt on September 14, 2014. Nothing can be presented accurately in one format alone, the composer argues, so he has written an opera that tends toward installation, a plot in solitary images, music with sampling technique. More in our interview.

The Salzburger Festspiele featured the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s second opera Charlotte Salomon in a production by stage director Luc Bondy.

Olga Neuwirth contributes a new orchestra work for LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2016. The composition is sponsored by Roche Commissions and will be premiered by LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra.

Liza Lim in conversation with Ensemble Musikfabrik about composition, parallel worlds and flight delays.

In September Samir Odeh-Tamimi is going to be Composer-in-Residence at the Festival Artes Vertentes in Brazil. The festival will take place in the city of Tiradentes, a picturesque village from 18th century located between Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.

The world premiere of Enno Poppe’s Speicher cycle was one of the highlights of Donaueschinger Musiktage 2013 and received brilliant reviews: „When the 80-minute piece was over, you immediately wanted to listen to Speicher again“ (FAZ). Now the Musikfest Berlin presents the cycle on September 20, 2014. Click here for more press quotes from NZZ, Die Welt, and many more.

Sergej Newski started his three months residency at the Villa Aurora in California in July 2014. During his stay he will compose a new music theater based on the novel Pazifik Exil by Michael Lentz. The work will be premiered at UltraSchall Festival Berlin 2015 before having its American premiere at the Villa Aurora in March 2015.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite work from our catalogs. This time: Hubert Stuppner writes about Inverno-in ver by Niccolò Castiglioni.

“The composers of our time should study Mayr’s operas. They would find there everything what they are looking for and what would be useful for them.” (Gioachino Rossini)