More than 150 years after its first and only performance, held on January 13, 1867, at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Conservatory of Como, — in collaboration with Casa Ricordi, which has overseen the critical edition of the score, and within the framework of the European-funded project Casta Diva — presents the first modern staging of Turanda.
After the European tournée with the Staatskapelle Dresden, which in September took him to Rheingau, Milan, Bucharest, Linz, and Prague, Daniele Gatti returns to the Semperoper Dresden on Sunday, October 5, to conduct a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff staged by Damiano Michieletto and opening title of the 2025/26 Dresden opera season.
Michele Spotti was appointed today Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, a position he will assume from the 2026/27 season.
The opening of the Staatskapelle Dresden’s 2025/26 season and a tournée with stops in Rheingau, Milan, Bucharest, Linz and Prague are the upcoming engagements of conductor Daniele Gatti. On Sunday, August 31 (with repeat performances on September 1 and 2), he opens his second season as Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle — his tenure began in August 2024 — with a concert at the Semperoper in Dresden.
At just 32 years old – only two years above the minimum age required to be eligible – the Italian conductor Michele Spotti, has been appointed by the French Ministry of Culture as “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”, one of the highest honors awarded to “individuals who have distinguished themselves through their artistic or literary creations or for the contribution they have made to the influence of the arts and letters in France and worldwide.”
After the intense Vienna residency in February 2025 – which involved schools, a retirement home, a soup kitchen, and cultural institutions, culminating in two concerts at the Konzerthaus – pianist Filippo Gorini makes his African debut, bringing his project Sonata for 7 Cities to Cape Town and Stellenbosch from August 21 to September 26.
Back for its 14th edition, the “Guido Cantelli” International Conducting Award will take place from 1 to 4 October 2026, a significant year marking seventy years since the untimely death of the extraordinary Italian conductor to whom the competition is dedicated.
The charm of the folk melodies that Johannes Brahms collected under the title of Hungarian Dances is the protagonist of a new album released by BR-KLASSIK. The label, almost thirty years after the studio recording with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in 1996, is publishing the orchestral version of Brahms’ 21 Hungarian Dances conducted by Roberto Abbado, then Principal Conductor of the German ensemble.
It’s not Hamlet, and it’s not Shakespeare. It’s Ambleto — the very first opera in music history to tell the story of the Danish prince — brought to Vienna with an unexpected ending that celebrates the central role of female figures. This symbolic choice lies at the heart of the new production of Ambleto, the Baroque masterpiece by Francesco Gasparini, on stage at the MusikTheater an der Wien from May 6 to 17, 2025.
«I wanted to emphasize the surreal aspect of Betrothal in a Monastery. It’s a comic opera that tells of the protagonist’s journey into a fantasy world; and we try to make it all the more effective by changing the spatial dimensions, playing with transforming costumes and identities, and by creating visions that bring the story to an imaginative level». This is how Damiano Michieletto describes his new production of Sergej Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery, running at the MusikTheater an der Wien, in the capital of Austria, from Wednesday 26 March until 9 April.
