What happens when there is too much of an expanding energy? Miroslav Srnka seeks to reflect musically on a physical process.

Mahler’s symphonies are “musical travelling companions” for him. Now Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini has composed introductory pieces to the monumental works of Mahler for the Jena Philharmonic.

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.

The Stadttheater Gießen has been known for its rediscoveries for many years. This time the choice has fallen on Umberto Giordano’s opera “Mala vita”, a drama of the relationships amongst outcasts in the slums of Naples, written by the composer in 1892, before his major work “Andrea Chenier”. In Wolfgang Hofmann’s new production for Gießen the increasingly fateful plot is contrasted with, and commented on, by madrigals and responsories by Carlo Gesualdo. Eraldo Salmieri conducts this verismo gem, just 75 minutes long. The work was originally successfully premiered in Rome, but was angrily rejected in Naples. The first performance of the new production takes place on 15 September 2018.

“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.

Barry Cooper offers alternative variant readings in the new Bärenreiter edition, corrects uncertainties and adds a rediscovered composition with a close connection to the Mass.