Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux was an outstanding success, though initially in the reworked version of 1754. The performance material for this work is now available. The volume from the Complete Edition will follow.

The rental material of the renowned music publisher Ut Orpheus Edizioni, founded and based in Bologna in 1993, will now be distributed worldwide by Alkor-Edition, with the exception of Italy. The attractive catalogue, dedicated primarily to early music, includes the complete editions of Francesco Geminiani, Luigi Boccherini (portrait) and Muzio Clementi. Of particular interest is the “Napoli e l‘Europa” series initiated by Riccardo Muti, featuring previously unpublished operas and oratorios of the Neapolitan School, including “I due Figaro” by Saverio Mercadante and “Demofoonte” by Niccoló Jommelli, A real gem is the Dramma per musica “Francesca da Rimini” by Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870), premiered in 2016 at the Festival della Valle d'Itria Martina Franca. It will be performed for the first time beyond the Alps in the current season as a co-production of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl and Oper Frankfurt, in Erl from 28 December 2022, in Frankfurt from 26 February 2023.

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.