Cavalli's opera "Scipione Affricano" offers many possibilities for realisation on stage. In addition to the love plot, the opera also deals with the themes of freedom and slavery. The new edition which is part of the critical edition “Francesco Cavalli-Opere” offers opera houses a dependable basis.

The new edition of Antonín Dvořák's masterwork presents not a “new” Rusalka – conductors, performers, and audiences will find the same Czech masterpiece that has been enjoyed for over 100 years but the opera in its definitive form, with all practical and musicological issues considered, well-documented, and clearly presented.

It is astonishing that there is still no reliable edition of the opera buffa par excellence, Cimarosa’ “Il matrimonio segreto”, that takes all sources into account. Guido Olivieri's and Federico Gon's critical new edition from the series "Masterpieces of Italian Opera" closes this gap. Its premiere is announced for 11 November 2022 at the Schlosstheater im Neuen Palais as a production of the Potsdam Winter Opera, followed by seven further performances until the end of the month. The Italian early music specialist Attilio Cremonesi conducts the Kammerakademie Potsdam, and Adriana Altaras had been entrusted for the stage diretion.
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“La Jolie Fille de Perth” has been published by Fishergate Music as volume 3 of the series “Bizet's Other Operas”. The editor is Hugh Macdonald. Like “Carmen” and “Les Pêcheurs de perles”, the opera is full of brilliance and ingenuity. This new edition of “La Jolie” has removed all later additions, thus offering a reliable basis for performances.

The premiere in 1749 was a failure, but the second version of 1756 was highly acclaimed. Jean-Philippe Despite optimal production conditions and context, the premiere in 1749 was not a success. Only with the second fundamentally revised version of his “Zoroastre” did Jean-Philippe Rameau win the affections of the public. The theme of Louis de Cahusac’s libretto, drawn from ancient Persian sources, is the battle between good and evil, fought out here by the religious reformer Zoroastre and his adversary, the ambitious sorcerer Abramane. This drastic dualistic juxtaposition enabled the librettist to introduce elements of ritual and belief from Freemasonry. With Graham Sadler’s new edition of the second version, published as part of the “Opera Omnia Rameau”, and the performance material available on hire, this successful performance tradition can now be continued.

The composer and conductor Carlo Ciceri, who passed away in March 2022 at a young age and hailed from Italy, created much more than just a COVID-safe chamber version of the originally planned opera with "L’ultimo sogno — Un‘immagine di Traviata" for the Staatstheater Kassel, initiated by General Music Director Francesco Angelico. The work had its premiere in Kassel in September 2020.

The new editorial project “Bizet’s Other Operas”

Fishergate Music is publishing successive critical new editions of Georges Bizet’s lesser-known operas, which are available in unreliable editions, if at all. The editor and publisher is the renowned British musicologist Hugh Macdonald, who has contributed significantly to the establishing of Hector Berlioz’s entire output in the musical repertoire in recent years with his “New Berlioz Edition”, published by Bärenreiter. This is also the aim of the series “Bizet’s Other Operas”. The first works, “Djamileh” and “Don Procopio”, are already available in score, vocal score and orchestral parts. “La Jolie Fille de Perth”, “La Maison du Docteur”, “Le Docteur Miracle” and “Ivan IV” will follow. The performance material, available on hire, can be obtained from Bärenreiter · Alkor.