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Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest Wins RPS Award; UK Premiere at ROH
Jun. 03, 2013Gerald Barry’s wonderfully inventive comic opera, The Importance of Being Earnest, has just received the Royal Philharmonic Society's Best Large-Scale Composition prize. Called “the most confident, volatile comic opera …
Hannah Lash’s Total Internal Reflection Debuts at Great Lakes and Aspen Music Festivals
Jun. 03, 2013Hannah Lash sees multiple performances of her music across the US in the coming months as the major summer festivals get under way. First up is the world premiere of …
The Tales of Hoffmann Opens at San Francisco Opera
Jun. 03, 2013San Francisco Opera opened its new production of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann on June 5 using the acclaimed integral edition by Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe Keck. Co-produced with …
Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony Available for Chamber Orchestra; James Conlon Conducts The Mermaid in New Critical Edition
Jun. 03, 2013Ensemble Kontrapunkte premieres the new chamber orchestra arrangement of Alexander Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony on June 3, led by Peter Kausching. The performance of the new arrangement by Thomas Heinisch features soprano …
With the much-anticipated announcement of the New York Philharmonic’s inaugural Biennial in 2014 and next season’s CONTACT! series, we are pleased to note the music of several composers from the …
Opera Philadelphia's New Production of Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face
Jun. 03, 2013Opera Philadelphia opens its new production of Thomas Adès’s evergreen chamber opera Powder Her Face as part of Opera Philadelphia’s Aurora Series for Chamber Opera on June 7. Directed by …
Kamran Ince’s Domes at the Albany Symphony Orchestra
Jun. 03, 2013Kamran Ince’s Domes, one of the composer’s most powerful and absorbing orchestral compositions, was a centerpiece of the Albany Symphony Orchestra's recent American Music Festival concerts, conducted by David …
Bernard Rands’s Danza Petrificada in Mexican Premiere; Composer Residency at Sarajevo Festival
Jun. 03, 2013Given its world premiere by Riccardo Muti in his inaugural season as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Rands’s Danza Petrificada is an evocative single movement work for …
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
May. 22, 2013Henri Dutilleux - Master of magical narrative power
The international music world has lost one of its major figures with the death of Henri Dutilleux. The French composer Henri Dutilleux, …
Steve Martland (1959-2013)
May. 07, 2013We are deeply saddened to note the recent passing of Steve Martland, one of the most outstanding voices in British music since the mid-eighties. Martland died in his sleep on …
