For a year now, Ricordi Berlin has been working together with the three new ricordilab composers Hannah Kendall, Alex Paxton, and Diana Syrse, who have already celebrated great concert successes and important prizes. There are now further significant premieres on the horizon.

Mexican composer and current ricordilab winner Diana Syrse celebrates Mexico City in a new work for orchestra, in which she invites the audience on a sonic walk through the different neighbourhoods and specific sounds of this extraordinary cosmopolitan city.

At the invitation of the Wiener Festwochen, director Toshiki Okada and composer Dai Fujikura, both world-renowned in their respective disciplines, are working together for the first time, exploring a new form of musical theatre.

"Jubilant unison" for Battistelli's new opera commissioned by Deutsche Oper Berlin. New reruns in November 2023.

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.