The Italian composer reads the Greek myth with his new opera, celebrated by critics worldwide.

UMPG has appointed respected executive Annette Gentz to the role of General Manager GSA (Germany/Austria/Switzerland), Classics & Screen, effective immediately. Additionally, Gentz will bring her esteemed film and stage music agency, Annette Gentz / Music & Film Arts, into UMPG where it will continue operating under its own name.

Three world premieres in 2023 by Lisa Streich: In February, the Swede celebrated the premiere of her work FLÜGEL at the Elbphilharmonie Visions festival. This was followed by BALLHAUS, which was created for Staatsoper Hannover as part of the "more than music" series. In June of this year, Streich's work ISHJÄRTA will be premiered by the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Sarah Nemtsov's new opera OPHELIA premieres at Staatstheater Saarbrücken under the musical direction of Stefan Neubert and with a libretto by Mirko Bonné. With her work, Nemtsov focuses on the story of Ophelia's self-liberation and emancipation.

In April 2025 the world premiere in Milan, followed by the premiere of the French version in Paris and the Italian rerun at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), a leading, global music publisher, today announced that world-renowned composers Kevin Puts and Angélica Negrón have been respectively signed to exclusive, global publishing agreements. Through the new deal, the company’s Classics & Screen division also acquired Puts’ illustrious composition catalogue.

The German composer debuts his first "myth-operetta" at Volksoper Wien and directed by Lotte de Beer. In his work, Eggert discusses the topic of conspiracy theories. 

On March 16th 2023, Younghi Pagh-Paan's Die Blüte - Wurzelwerk celebrated its world premiere. The piece was written for piano and ensemble and was presented by Münchener Kammerorchester who also commissioned it.

The Milano Musica Festival 2023 features the new critical edition of Bruno Maderna's Ausstrahlung, originally premiered at Persepolis, in Iran, in 1971. Here a brief presentation by the editors of the new edition, Angela Ida De Benedictis and Marco Mazzolini, introducing this inspired work and highlighting the added value of bringing this critical edition on stage today.

Double world premiere blooms in Germany for Lucia Ronchetti this spring: her new stage work for young audience Das fliegende Klassenzimmer, and the choral opera Chronicles of Loneliness, a huge project with 150 male singers, inspired by the work of Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.