From March 9 to 16 Silvia Colasanti’s La Metamorfosi returns to the stage at the Teatro Goldoni in Florence. The work, an opera “on solitude” in three parts, was commissioned by the festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2012.

Chant de l'isolé is a triple concerto for piano, violin, cello, and string orchestra commissioned by the orchestras of Pau Pays de Béarn, Bordeaux, and Poitou-Charentes and written for the Trio Wanderer.

In 2008, the Hillard Ensemble performed the world premiere of Heiner Goebbels' I went to the house but did not enter. Now the group will present the piece at the Biennale Musiques en Scène à Lyon on March 6, 7 and 8, 2014. We have talked to Steven Harrold about Goebbels' composition.

On March 12 the world premiere of Francesca Verunelli’s Graduale, Disambiguation takes place at the KKL in Lucerne.

The orchestral piece, winner of the 2011 Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne Award for Young Composers, will be performed by the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester under the direction of Michael Sanderling. An additional performance is scheduled for the following day.

Five years after completing his first opera, the young composer Hèctor Parra has written his second stage work, this time a monodrama titled Te craindre en ton absence. The new work is the result of a collaboration with author Marie NDiaye, laureate of the 2009 Goncourt Prize for her novel Trois Femmes puissantes.

Ian Wilson’s major new work to conclude his tenure as Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra, Causeway for orchestra and electronics, will be premiered on 26 March at the Ulster Hall, Belfast and conducted by JoAnn Falletta.

The country of extreme opposites is polarized like few others: Brazil evokes images of acrobatic soccer, beautiful people and its colorful carnival just as much as scenes of drug crime and severe poverty in the favelas of its big cities.

Since Brazil is gaining more and more attention because of this year’s World Cup and the summer Olympics in 2016, we decided to introduce some composers who have dealt with Brazil’s rich musical heritage each in his own very unique way.

The first volume of the Critical Edition of the Operas of Giacomo Puccini is now available. After a long period of preparation, the edition of Manon Lescaut will be presented to the public in Milan on 27 February 2014. A performance of the critical edition of the 1893 version of Manon Lescaut already met great acclaim in 2008 at the Leipzig Opera (Photos: Tom Schulze).

Fabio Vacchi’s new dramatic work Veronica Franco for soprano, speaker, and orchestra is very much a women’s affair. Center-stage is the story of Veronica Franco, the Venetian courtesan and poetess whose extraordinary beauty was immortalized by Tintoretto.

One of the highlights of this year’s MaerzMusik will be the performances of Enno Poppe’s music theatre work IQ. The Berliner Festspiele’s festival for contemporary music will also feature the world premiere of Mela Meierhans’ Shiva for Anne as well as concerts with works of our composers György Kurtág, Fabien Lévy, Sergej Newski, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Samir Odeh-Tamimi and Hans Wüthrich.