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Debut of Die Blüte - Wurzelwerk by Pagh-Paan

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.

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Ronchetti: new stage work and choral opera

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.
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Maderna's Ausstrahlung: new critical edition

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.
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Colasanti: new opera Anna A. for La Scala

Teatro alla Scala announced a new opera commission to Silvia Colasanti, first woman composer to be featured from the Italian opera house. The opera, Anna A., will be staged in 2025 and will be focused on the poet Anna Achmatova, with libretto by Paolo Nori.
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MaerzMusik: Sergej Newski & Ales Paxton

MaerzMusik is a festival for contemporary music that gives room for the exchange of artistic knowledge. In this year's edition, the festival featured works by Sergej Newsky and Alex Paxton, among others.
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Bernhard Lang: Hiob & The Travel Agency is on Fire

Two music theater pieces celebrating world premieres: the opera Hiob  based on the novel with the same name by Joseph Roth, commissioned by the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, and The Travel Agency is on Fire based on a text by William S. Burroughs presented by soyuz21 - contemporary music ensemble zürich.
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