At the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2022, world premieres by Georg Friedrich Haas, Hannah Kendall, Bernhard Lang und Mauro Lanza have been presented.

Georg Friedrich Haas’s latest opera, Sycorax, had its world premiere in Bern. Mollena Williams-Haas, a noted activist of colour, portrayed the title character created for her by Haas.

Si è conclusa il 25 settembre la Biennale Musica 2022 di Venezia. Alcuni estratti dalla rassegna stampa internazionale del festival per raccontare la ricezione del pubblico dei lavori di Giorgio Battistelli scelti per rappresentazione il teatro musicale Out of Stage.

In his newest vocal work, Eyewitness Evidence, Newski reacts musically to a text about the horrors of war, “attempting to describe the indescribable”.

Hannah Kendall, Alex Paxton and Diana Syrse have won the third ricordilab international composers’ competition.

Julia Wolfe's Her Story, a 40-minute theatrical work for orchestra and women’s chamber choir and orchestra, receives its world premiere on September 15, 2022 with the Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Lorelei Ensemble, with stage direction by Anne Kauffman, lighting and scenic design by Jeff Sugg, costumes by Marion Talan de la Rosa, and sound design by Andrew Cotton. 

Santa Fe Opera's 2022 Season featured the world premiere of their newly commissioned opera M. Butterfly by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, based on the Broadway hit and Tony Award-winning play originally written by the librettist himself. James Robinson's production--under the baton of Carolyn Kuan, featuring opera stars Kangmin Justin Kim and Mark Stone--was lauded by audiences and critics alike. 

In autunno, il teatro musicale in Italia è protagonista sia della scena classica che di quella contemporanea: Giorgio Battistelli insignito del Leone d'oro alla carriera alla Biennale Musica 2022, e prima esecuzione assoluta di una nuova edizione critica al Festival Verdi di Parma.

In 2022, various works from our publishing group find themselves centre-stage: In the opening premiere “Ich geh unter lauter Schatten” works by Grisey, Scelsi and Xenakis, were scenically interpreted. Sarah Nemtsov's instrumental cycle HAUS, sees its scenic premiere in the Turbine Hall.

Giacomo Manzoni compie 90 anni. Nato a Milano il 26 settembre 1932, compositore ma anche critico musicale, traduttore (di Adorno, Hölderlin, Mann), saggista e didatta, lo celebriamo con una selezione di suoi lavori dal suo catalogo Ricordi.