For a long time, Sasha Waltz and Georg Friedrich Haas wished to collaborate but never had an opportunity to realize the plan. That changed when Waltz took over as co-intendant of the Berlin State Ballet in August 2019.

With The Murder of Halit Yozgat, the Australian composer Ben Frost, known for his very diverse oeuvre of experimental and electronic music, is making his second opera on a dark subject.

Along with Sex Magic, a large work for for contrabass flute, live electronics and an installation of kinetic instruments, written for Claire Chase, there is the Annunciation Triptych for orchestra, which is being given its world premiere at the Achtbrücken Festival in Cologne, with soprano Emily Hindrichs and the WDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Cristian Măcelaru.

Salvatore Sciarrino pubblicherà i suoi prossimi lavori con Casa Ricordi. I titoli si aggiungeranno al ricco catalogo Ricordi del compositore che già raccoglie la sua produzione tra il 1969 e il 2004.

Casa Ricordi è orgogliosa di pubblicare insieme all’editore italiano Suvini Zerboni questo nuovo lavoro, nel solco di una tradizione editoriale che sin dalle origini ha dato voce all’impegno civile attraverso la musica, portando da sempre sulle scene di tutto il mondo storie e denunce, lucide immagini di ogni presente. 

The composer Vinko Globokar has received the 2022 German Music Authors’ Prize of GEMA, the German performing rights organization.

Sei nuove creazioni per raccontare momenti importanti: Ambrosini, Battistelli, Boccadoro, Francesconi, Haas, Shin.

In this interview with Regine Palmai, Philip Venables talks about his opera and the specifics of the German version.

Catching, Courageous, Cutting Edge – Bonn Opera and the Hanover State Opera present world premieres, national premieres, rediscoveries and special concerts.

The Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös has reworked his 1999 viola concerto Replica to a commission from the Berlin Staatskapelle.