After its premiere in 1762, the opera Annette et Lubin became famous throughout Europe. Now a new edition published as part of the OPERA Project offers the opportunity of rediscovering this work.

Der Musikverlag Rai Trade pflegt die Kinderoper als wichtigen Bestandteil seines Kataloges. Es sind Stücke, in denen junge Menschen nicht nur als Publikum gesehen, sondern aktiv in die Produktion einbezogen werden. Vier neue Werke stellen sich vor.

Saving everything for opera. The English composer Julian Anderson pours all his experience into Thebans, which receives its world premiere on 3 May at English National Opera.

(4.5.2015) Ľubica Čekovská has composed a highly successful operatic version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, commissioned by the Slovak National Opera Bratislava. Her opera Dorian Gray, to a libretto by Kate Pullinger, demonstrates a virtuoso approach to dramaturgical form, in particular her device of treating the portrait as an increasingly distorted vocal line has been hailed as “absolutely brilliant”. The timelessly up-to-date story about appearance and reality is being revived at the Bratislava Opera (14.5.2015) and has also been programmed at the Prague Spring Festival on 19.5.2015. – The Slovak composer has been commissioned to write an orchestral work by the Essen Philharmonic. Palingenia receives its premiere on 14 September 2015, conducted by Tomáš Netopil.

(26.11.2013) The operas of Franz Schubert are still rarely performed on the stage or in the concert hall. So two forthcoming performance projects devoted to these works are all the more notable. Well-known vocal soloists and the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Christopher Hogwood present two early seldom-performed Singspiels in concert performances on 8 December in the Prinzregententheater, Munich: Der vierjährige Posten (using performance material from the New Schubert Edition for the first time) and Die Zwillingsbrüder. By contrast, the Theater an der Wien presents a staged production of the religious drama Lazarus, which survives in fragmentary form. The first performance takes place in Vienna on 11 December. Michael Boder conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, and the director is Claus Guth.

On 2 May 2013 the opera L’Olimpiade by Josef Mysliveček was performed in the Estates Theatre Prague, the work of a composer whose art was once admired by the whole of Europe.

(19.9.2013) The 300th anniversary of Gluck’s birth, born on 2 July 1714 in Erasbach near Nuremberg, is being marked in many places this season. This starts on 3 November 2013 in the Bayer Kulturhaus Leverkusen with a concert performance of Gluck’s La clemenza di Tito with L’Arte del mondo conducted by Werner Ehrhardt, followed on 10 November by Frankfurt Opera with its first performance of the Prague version of Ezio (Vincent Boussard / Christian Curnyn). On 8 February 2014 the first performance of Atto d'Orfeo, the Parma version of Orfeo ed Euridice, will be given at Göteborg Opera. Laurence Cummings conducts using pre-publication material from the Gluck Complete Works, specially prepared for this performance by Gabriele Buschmeier. The director is David Radok.