Each year, the German magazine Opernwelt conducts a survey among 50 international opera critics to identify the best artists, works, and performances of the year. The 2013 "Rediscovery of the Year" is Giacomo Meyerbeer's Vasco de Gama...

Luigi Nono's Prometeo receives an Argentine premiere with performances on November 16 and 17 at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.The London Sinfonietta, the Orquesta Juvenil del Bicentenario, and the choir Diapasón Sur will be conducted by Baldur Brönnimann and Detlef Heusinger.

Younghi Pagh-Paan was recently awarded with the Paiknam Prize of her home country South Korea.

The world premiere of Enno Poppe's Speicher cycle was one of the highlights of the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2013. In November, several concerts of his works are coming up in the northern Germany.

The piano concerto Different Spaces is born from a singular encounter between classical pianist Nicholas Angelich and Baptiste Trotignon, a main figure in the international jazz scene...

On October 19, Luca Francesconi will complete his residency in Porto, Portugal, with the world premiere of his second piano concerto.

This year, the Donaueschinger Musiktage feature world premieres of four composers of the Universal Music Publishing Classical group.

Azio Corghi's new work Madreterra draws its musical substance from the enigmatic scale used by Verdi.

Claudio Ambrosini's new work for boys choir and orchestra, Fonofania, is an inquiry into the birth of sound and language as they evolve in the development of a child. 

After the huge success of the revival of Quartett in Paris (Cité de la musique) and Amsterdam (Holland Festival), a new production of Francesconi's opera will be presented on September 24 in Porto.