Work of the week

Vibrant, rhythmic, and virtuosic: Fazıl Say’s new Mandolin Concerto premieres at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival – featuring star mandolinist Avi Avital.

A new opera about youth, sexuality, and social taboos: world premiere with young performers in Hamburg.

Tobias Picker’s Fantastic Mr. Fox premieres at Opera Omaha – a musical adventure for the whole family.

Wes Anderson’s new film "The Phoenician Scheme" shines with Stravinsky’s L'oiseau de feu – The Firebird. A classic ballet reimagined on the big screen.

1977 – A Violin Concerto is Sebastian Hilli’s new work to be premiered with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. It is a a musical portrait of the year 1977. Its twelve movements each transform a real event from that year into a vibrant orchestral scene. Discover more about this inspiring work and a fascinating year! 

 A new accordion concerto by Dobrinka Tabakova – composed for Ksenija Sidorova and now touring Europe.

A true story of injustice turned into opera: Anthony Davis’s The Central Park Five brings five falsely convicted teenagers to the stage – in May 2025 a new orchestral version premieres at Detroit Opera.

What does a lawnmower have to do with orchestral sound? For Han Lash, quite a lot. Zero Turning Radius is a new piece that showcases the orchestra as a nimble musical creature. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), a leading orchestra dedicated to new music, commissioned the piece and will premiere it on May 4, 2025 in Boston.

Zimmermann’s haunting protest piece, performed in Slovenia for the first time – discover why it still resonates so deeply.

Wagner’s Parsifal returns to Goetheanum Dornach (Switzerland) in April – with the Schott edition, a star cast and a new book exploring the production.