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Dieter Ammann is composer-in-residence at this year’s Weiwuying International Music Festival in Taiwan, where three of his key works receive their Taiwanese premieres. The first of these takes place on 10 April 2026 with the Piano Concerto “Gran Toccata”, performed by Anton Gerzenberg with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson. In this work, the piano and orchestral sounds are closely interwoven, so that “the moment of virtuosity inherent in the genre »more«
What is the secret of eternal youth? Ľubica Čekovská’s operatic version of Oscar Wilde’s timelessly relevant story about appearance versus reality receives its premiere on 18 April 2026 in the Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz. The opera “Dorian Gray” to a libretto by Kate Pullinger was premiered in 2013 in Bratislava. Now it is being performed for the first time in Annaberg-Buchholz in a reduced version with a German translation by Samuel C. Zinsli. At the centre stands the title figure, torn between two worlds: the bright, glamorous society »more«
Handel’s last opera “Deidamia” – before the composer turned his focus to oratorio – contains surprises as a game of hide-and-seek in women’s clothing. At the centre of this year’s Göttingen International Handel Festival, on 15 May 2026, we encounter the young Achilles who was sent to the island of Scyros. In order to escape from the prophecy that predicts his death on the battlefield, Achilles lives there disguised as a »more«
MWith Emmanuel Chabrier’s opéra bouffe “L’Étoile”, Opera Zuid is staging a masterpiece which is both carefree and seldom performed, using the Urtext edition by Hugh Macdonald from the series “L’Opéra français”. Spiced up by a tale of love and mistaken identity, the opera is convincing thanks to any number of refined and catchy melodies à la Jacques Offenbach. Every year, King Ouf I offers his people an execution, but this time there is no suitable candidate. A solution appears »more«
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Ut Orpheus, now distributed by Alkor
The rental material of the renowned music publisher Ut Orpheus Edizioni will now be distributed worldwide by Alkor-Edition, with the exception of Italy. The attractive catalogue, dedicated primarily to early music, includes the complete editions of Francesco Geminiani, Luigi Boccherini and Muzio Clementi.
Ut Orpheus Edizioni is a music publishing house which was founded in 1993 in Bologna, its headquarters being situated in the historic centre of this city where also its own specialized music bookshop – the Libreria Musicale Ut Orpheus – is to be found. The catalogue comprises over 2,000 titles, including scores of early, classical and contemporary music, books and journals.
A large part of its publications consists of formerly unpublished works by known or unknown composers issued in meticulous scholarly-critical Urtext editions.
New edition of „Carmen“ sets standards
The new edition of Bizet’s “Carmen” from Bärenreiter-Verlag follows the approach that scholarship shouldn’t decide which version is the right one or the real one – and instead presents an edition containing all the surviving original versions of the opéra-comique.
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Pietro Mascagni
Zanetto
Yajie Zhang, Narine Yeghiyan, Orchester der Berliner Operngruppe, Conductor: Felix Krieger
Oehms
Jean Philippe Rameau
Castor et Pollux
Judith van Wanroij, Veronique Gens, Reinoud van Mechelen, Tassis Christoyannis, Olivia Doray, Hasnaa Bennani, Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, Conductor: György Vashegyi
Alpha
Miloslav Kabelac
Symphony No.2, Overtures for Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Jakub Hrusa
Capriccio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Haffner-Akademie
Anna Prohaska, Herbert Schuch, Ensemble Resonanz, Conductor: Riccardo Minasi
Dieter Ammann
Orchestral works "music for orchestra"
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Conductor: Jonathan Nott
Schweizer Fonogramm
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orpheus & Eurydike
Reinoud van Mechelen, Ana Vieira Leite, Julie Roset, Les Arts Florissants, Conductor: Paul Agnew
Les Arts Florissants
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