30 years ago, programme booklets were still written with typewriters and Ricordi still had its own record label (Dischi Ricordi). It was also 30 years ago that Liza Lim first had works published by Ricordi – Garden of Earthly Desire and Voodoo Child – on the recommendation of conductor Sandro Gorli.

Tikkun is the last part of Sarah Nemtsov’s tetralogy Tzimtzum, a cycle based on mystical ideas of the Creation. The world premiere, with Ensemble Nikel and Ensemble Resonanz conducted by Emilio Pomárico, takes place in Hamburg during the festival “5 Years of Elbphilharmonie”.

Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award for her opera Orlando.

For 100 years now, the Donaueschinger Musiktage have been synonymous with New Music. On this anniversary we look forward with special interest to the premieres of Francesco Filidei, Yair Klartag, Liza Lim and Enno Poppe.

Highly esteemed by his contemporaries, the legendary conductor, composer and pedagogue Alexander Zemlinsky was born 150 years ago this October. His opera fragment Malva from 1912 had its world premiere at the National Theatre in Prague as part of musica non grata's Zemlinsky 150 festival.

Politics and power, society and manipulation – these are the key issues of Bernhard Lang’s latest “political theatre works”: the chamber opera Playing Trump, commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera, and the large-scale music theatre Der Hetzer (The Rabble Rouser), commissioned by the Dortumund Opera.

For the ORPHEUS magazine, Maike Graf spoke with the composer about his compositional principles and related stylistic elements, about the introduction of rap, and the socio-political intentions of his opera commission Der Hetzer.

Oggi Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) ha comunicato la promozione di Natasha Baldwin a Vicepresidente Esecutivo di Classics and Screen. Di base a Londra, Baldwin riporterà a Jody Gerson e a Marc Cimino, rispettivamente Presidente / Amministratore Delegato, e Direttore Operativo di UMPG.

Casa Ricordi si unisce con affettuosa commozione alle condoglianze per la scomparsa di Sylvano Bussotti (1° ottobre 1931 – 19 settembre 2021).

La nuova edizione di Prometeo di Luigi Nono è in vendita, corredata da un volume di avvertenze tecnico-esecutive per voci, strumenti ed elettronica.