For Silvia Colasanti the second half of 2014 is shaping up to be as eventful as the first.

Iannis Xenakis’ Oresteia was premiered on September 9, 2014 at Deutsche Oper Berlin. The production by David Hermann and Christof Hetzer is set on the parking level of the opera house. Click here for more pictures.

In 2012 Heiner Goebbels became Artistic Director of Ruhrtriennale for three years. In his final season, he now presents his stage work Surrogate Cities in a new production in Duisburg. Heiner Goebbels tells us more in this interview.

In our video interview Musica’s general manager Jean-Dominique Marco talks about the highlights and the challenges of this year’s festival.

Rolf Riehm’s Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens will be premiered at Oper Frankfurt on September 14, 2014. Nothing can be presented accurately in one format alone, the composer argues, so he has written an opera that tends toward installation, a plot in solitary images, music with sampling technique. More in our interview.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite works from our catalogs. This time: Ricordi London composer John Hopkins introduces Pascal Dusapin's Perelà - Uomo di Fumo.

Olga Neuwirth contributes a new orchestra work for LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2016. The composition is sponsored by Roche Commissions and will be premiered by LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra.

In September Samir Odeh-Tamimi is going to be Composer-in-Residence at the Festival Artes Vertentes in Brazil. The festival will take place in the city of Tiradentes, a picturesque village from 18th century located between Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.

September offers a rich array of music by Fabio Vacchi: two world premieres in Vicenza and Bari and a portrait in three concerts at the 2014 MITO Settembre Musica festival in Milan and Turin.

The world premiere of Enno Poppe’s Speicher cycle was one of the highlights of Donaueschinger Musiktage 2013 and received brilliant reviews: „When the 80-minute piece was over, you immediately wanted to listen to Speicher again“ (FAZ). Now the Musikfest Berlin presents the cycle on September 20, 2014. Click here for more press quotes from NZZ, Die Welt, and many more.