(30.4.2015) This year not one, but two opera volumes from the Halle Handel Edition will be put to the test at both the Handel Festivals in Germany. The Göttingen Festival opens on 15 May 2015 with a new production of Agrippina directed by Laurence Dale and conducted by Laurence Cummings. John E. Sawyer is responsible for the long-awaited new edition. The performance material contains the Venetian version from the 1709 premiere, as well as additional alternative music numbers or numbers not used then. The Halle Festival follows on 5 June 2015 with a new production of the seldom-performed opera Lucio Cornelio Silla of 1713, which Terence Best has edited for the HHA. The Handel Festival Orchestra is conducted by Enrico Onofri, and the director is Stephen Lawless. Two days later, on 7 June 2015, Fabio Biondi conducts his Ensemble “Europa Galante” in a concert performance of Handel’s last stage work Imeneo, with a top-class line-up of soloists. The Dublin version of 1742 will be performed, which Donald Burrows reconstructed in 2002 for the relevant HHA volume.

Schubert’s music for the play Rosamunde is now one of his best-known compositions. But it was almost lost. The New Schubert Edition now presents the work in an authoritative version.

Cavalli’s Orione is great fun, precisely because the opera differs from what we might expect from a mid-17th century work. The Urtext edition published as part of the Cavalli Complete Edition by Bärenreiter offers a starting-point for entertaining performances.

The circumstances surrounding the composition of Handel’s opera Lucio Cornelio Silla are not clear. But because of its interesting characters and outstanding music, it deserves a new chance. The Handel Festival Halle is reviving the work this summer.

(1.10.2014) Handel's manifold oratorios and cantatas have been published since 1955 in the Halle Handel Edition (Series I). Popular works as well as lesser known vocal compositions will fill 32 volumes. For many of these works, vocal scores and performance material is available. 

(1.10.2014) Three works have just been newly published in the Complete Edition of Jean-Philippe Rameau, celebrating the 250 anniversary of his death: Dardanus 1739, the opera Le Temple de la Gloire after Voltaire as well as Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, his ballet music from 1747.

(10.6.2014) Performances of Franz Schubert’s most important opera continue to be rare events. So this year’s Salzburg Festival project to stage Fierabras in a highly promising new production and encourage debate about it once more is all the more remarkable. The director is Peter Stein, and conductor Ingo Metzmacher. The musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic will be playing from performance material from the New Schubert Edition specially produced for this production by Bärenreiter-Verlag. The first performance in the Haus für Mozart is on 13 August.