Of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s works only “I quattro rusteghi” (The Four Ruffians) is really well-known, but other operas are also well worth rediscovering, for example “La vedova scaltra” and “Sly”.

Baritone Victor Maurel and publisher Edoardo Sonzogno each contributed to the immensely successful “Pagliacci”. The new critical edition reveals the connections and leaves the choice up to the performers.

“Love in a Village” has now been released as part of the ambitious “OPERA” publishing project. In the 18th century it was number one in the British Isles, but is now almost forgotten.

Enchanting music to one of the most touching classical plots – that is Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Pigmalion”. The ballet is now available in an authoritative edition.

The tragedia lirica “Caterina Cornaro” by Gaetano Donizetti was performed for the first time on 18 January 1844 in the Teatro San Carlo, Naples. More than 170 years later, it is published for the first time in an authoritative edition.

A German opera in a cosmopolitan spirit, that is Gaspare Spontini’s opera “Agnes von Hohenstaufen” premiered in 1827 in Berlin. Now the Theater Erfurt is taking on this spectacular work.

The master concerts associated with the Heidenheim Opera Festival present a very special event this autumn: the well-known German actress Katharina Thalbach will play the (spoken) title role in Georg Anton Benda’s famous melodrama “Medea”, accompanied by the Cappella Aquileia under the direction of Marcus Bosch. The concert on 27 October in the Congress Zentrum Heidenheim, repeated on 28 October in Fürth, is at the same time the first performance using the critical new edition published by Bärenreiter. Benda’s “Medea” will be heard in the previously unknown late Mannheim version of 1784, which is in many respects more effective. The edition has been edited for the first time by Jörg Krämer for the series “OPERA – Spectrum of European Musical Theatre in Separate Editions.” (Picture: Eugène Delacroix, Medea kills her children (1862), Louvre Paris)