12/15/2012

schott aktuell - the journal 1/2013 online

The first issue in 2013 is dedicated to composer Hans Werner Henze who has recently passed away. Next to a 10-page photo gallery, there are personal words by artists like Peter Maxwell Davies, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Ingo Metzmacher and Christian Thielemann, whom we thank for their touching contributions. ...

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08/23/2012

schott aktuell - the journal 5/2012 online

The new season begins in spectacular form with the première of Jörg Widmann’s new opera Babylon at the Bayerische Staatsoper, involving a unique creative constellation which is generating high expectations. Babylon is Jörg Widmann’s second excursion into fulllength opera and a glance at the score ...

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07/18/2012

U.S. Premiere of Weill’s Magical Night (Zaubernacht) at the Ravinia Festival

James Conlon conducts Weill’s Magical Night (Zaubernacht) on July 19 at the Ravinia Festival, in the US premiere of the work’s critical edition. Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be joined by soprano Janai Brugger, and Chicago mime artists T. Daniel and Laurie Willets will provide ...

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07/09/2012

Work of the Week - George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

On 11 July, George and Ira Gershwin’s classic opera Porgy and Bess will receive its London stage premiere at the Coliseum presented by English National Opera. Christine Crouse directs Cape Town Opera’s production, with Albert Horne and Tim Murray conducting. Set in Catfish Row, ...

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06/26/2012

schott aktuell - the journal 4/2012 online

This summer’s festival season proves to be no exception. At the Salzburg Festival, Heinz Holliger conducts the World Première of his Janus Double Concerto for violin, viola and small orchestra, featuring Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s ...

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02/20/2012

Work of the Week - Kurt Weill: 2. Sinfonie

The Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau, Germany begins on 24 February with Hotel Montparnasse, an evening of ballet loosely based on the time that Weill spent exiled in Paris before immigrating to America in 1935. Set in the Montparnasse district of 1930s Paris, the ballet will bring the French ...

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12/23/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 1/2012 online

For Schott it is with particular pride that we look forward to the world’s celebrations of Wagner’s bicentenary in 2013. In anticipation of this event, we have been busy adding to our Richard Wagner Complete Edition: new urtext-vocal scores based to the Complete Edition of The Flying Dutchman in ...

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12/12/2011

Gavin Bryars at Spitalfields Festival

Gavin Bryars will be performing with his "circus band" at Shoreditch Church as part of the Spitalfields Winter Festival on 13th December 2011.  "Mercy & Grand: The Tom Waits Project" brings together ten songs by Tom Waits, two by Kurt Weill, a sea shanty, a hymn, a couple ...

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07/06/2011

Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins in New Productions at Castleton and Central City Opera

Following the New York City Ballet’s new production of The Seven Deadly Sins in May, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s ballet chant é will enjoy two more new stage productions this summer, this time on opera stages. The Seven Deadly Sins will be presented at the Castleton Festival in ...

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06/21/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 4/2011 online

MUSIC IN BLOOM Flowers and Gardens: although we all use the same words, their meaning and significance can be completely different depending on our cultural background. Some of you may bring to mind roses or snowdrops; our ancestors, however, used the word for cherry or plum blossoms. I agree ...

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