An Unheard “Carmen”
The new edition of Bizet’s opera Carmen in Apulia and Salzburg

| 1931 | born in Basel on 3 September |
| 1950-1953 | his studies include composition lessons with Walther Geiser at the Basel Music Academy and musicology with Jacques Handschin at the university there further composition studies with Willy Burkhard in Zurich and Boris Blacher in Salzburg |
| 1955 | composition studies at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold with Günter Bialas and Wolfgang Fortner |
| 1956-1960 | active as teacher and conductor in Basel |
| 1960-1968 | teaches theory and composition at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold |
| 1962 | receives the Bernhard Sprengel Prize awarded by German Industry Hannover |
| 1963 | appointed Professor |
| 1968-1975 | teaches at the Conservatory and Musikhochschule in Zurich |
| 1969-1974 | editor-in-chief of the "Schweizerische Musikzeitung" |
| 1970 | guest lecturer in the United States Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize Zurich |
| 1973 | Zurich radio prize for a series on understanding music by listening consciously |
| 1974-1980 | head of the Music Department at the Radio of German and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland (DRS) |
| 1980-1983 | Professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe |
| 1980 | guest lecturer in the United States |
| 1981 | guest lecturer in England |
| 1983-1994 | Director of the Music Academy in Basel |
| 1984 | Composition Prize of the "Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein" Arts Prize of the city of Basel |
| 1986 | guest lecturer in Japan and South Korea |
| 1987-1997 | Director of Basel Music Forum (with Heinz Holliger and Jürg Wyttenbach) |
| 1990 | composer-in-residence and instructor at Kunitachi Music College, Tokyo |
| 1992 | composer-in-residence at Cheltenham Festival |
| 1993 | visiting lecturer at Shanghai Conservatory of Music |
| 1994-1996 | teacher at Music Academy of the City of Basel |
| 1997 | Member of the Freie Akademie der Künste [Free Academy of Arts] Mannheim |
| 1998 | guest lecturer at the Lithuanian Music Academy, Vilnius |
| 2001 | composition seminar at the St. Petersburg Conservatory |
| 2007 | composer-in-residence at the Musikhochschule Münster "Musik unserer Zeit" ["Music in Our Time"] |
| 2021 | Died in Basel on March 24th |
| Until the mid-1990s Kelterborn was also active as a guest conductor, mainly as an interpreter of his own works. He has published numerous music-theoretical and analytical essays and books, and has been invited as a guest lecturer to England, the USA, Japan, China and Eastern Europe. Kelterborn’s compositions have been recognised in many essays and publications. |
| composer_first_name | composer_last_name | title | date | orchestra | conductor | location | special |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio | Salieri | Cublai, gran Kan de’ Tartari | 10.08.2026 | Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento | Stefano Ferrario | La Villa (Badia) | weitere Termine |
| Hector | Berlioz | Grande messe des morts | 15.08.2026 | London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra | Antonio Pappano | London (Proms, Royal Albert Hall) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 16.08.2026 | Scottish Chamber Chorus and Orchestra | Maxim Emelyanychev | Edinburgh (International Festival) | konzertant |
| Hector | Berlioz | Grande messe des morts | 19.08.2026 | Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao | Erick Nielsen | San Sebastian (Musikfestivals Quincena, Auditorio Kursaal) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La finta giardiniera | 20.08.2026 | Massimiliano Caldi, Regie: Maria Sartova | Danzig | Premiere | |
| Bernd Alois | Zimmermann | Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu | 20.08.2026 | Orchestre des Jardins Musicaux | Valentin Reymond | Cernier | |
| Frank | Martinu | Mass for double choir a cappella | 21.08.2026 | Ensemble Aedes | Mathieu Romano | Vézelay (Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) | |
| Frank | Martinu | Mass for double choir a cappella | 22.08.2026 | La Tempête | Simon-Pierre Bestion | Souillac (Abbatiale Sainte-Marie) | weitere Termine |
| Felix | Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Die erste Walpurgisnacht | 22.08.2026 | MDR-Sinfonieorchester & MDR Chor | Josep Vila i Casanas | Jena (Volkshaus) | |
| Beat | Furrer | Canti della tenebra, In mia vita da vuolp, Presto für Flöte und Klavier, Melodie für Flöte solo, Studie für Klavier | 26.08.2026 | Elina Viluma-Helling (Sopran), Cornelia Sonnleithner (Alt), Maria Iazia (Klavier) Iva Kovac (Flöte), Gerald Preinfalk (Saxophon) | St. Gallen (Burg Gallenstein) | ||
| Joseph | Haydn | Orlando Paladino | 28.08.2026 | Orfeo Orchestra | György Vashegyi | Fertöd (Haydneum Concerts at Esterházy Palace) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 9. Symphonie | 28.08.2026 | London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Antonio Pappano | Snape (Maltings Concert Hall) | weitere Termine |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 30.08.2026 | Choeur de Radio France, Les Siècles | Jakob Lehmann | London (BBC Proms) | konzertant |
| Joseph | Haydn | L´isola disabitata | 30.08.2026 | Orkest van de XVIIIe Eeuw | Oldenburg | ||
| Hector | Berlioz | Orphée | 01.09.2026 | Chor und Symphonisches Orchester der Opera Ballet Vlaanderen | Francesco Corti | Antwerpen | |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 03.09.2026 | National Forum of Music | Thomas Guggeis | Wroclaw (Orlen Main Hall) | |
| Gustav | Holst | The Planets | 03.09.2026 | Robert Schumann Philharmonie | Benjamin Reiners | Chemnitz | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Sinfonie | 08.09.2026 | Staatskapelle Berlin | Christian Thielemann | Berlin (Philharmonie) | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 11.09.2026 | Marie Jacquot, Regie: Tatjana Gürbaca | Kopenhagen | Premiere | |
| Siegfried Schäfer / | Guido Masanetz | Auszüge aus Verlieb‘ dich nicht in eine Heilige/In Frisco ist der Teufel los | 11.09.2026 | Loh-Orchester Sondershausen | Annalena Hoesel | Nordhausen | konzertant, weitere Termine |
| Dieter | Ammann | pRESTO sOSTINATO | 12.09.2026 | Ensemble Modern & Ensemble TIMF | Michael Wendeberg | Tongyeong (Concert Hall) | |
| Eric | Coates | Calling All Workers | 12.09.2026 | Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker | Daniel Spaw | Bad Reichenhall (Königliches Kurhaus) | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Die verlorene Melodie | 12.09.2026 | Staatskapelle Weimar | Weimar (Theaterfest) | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 12.09.2026 | Sebastiano Rolli, Regie: Martina Gredler | Magdeburg | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 3. Symphonie | 13.09.2026 | Orchestre de l'opéra de Lyon | Daniele Rustioni | Lyon | |
| Régis | Campo | Lumen | 13.09.2026 | Stuttgarter Philharmoniker | Rémy Ballot | Besancon (Festival de Musique) | |
| Arnold | Bax | Octet | 14.09.2026 | Ensemble Kontrapunkte | Gottfried Rabl | Wien (Musikverein) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Boost | 16.09.2026 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Paavo Järvi | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 3. Symphonie | 17.09.2026 | Essener Philharmoniker | Bertrand de Billy | Essen (Alfried Krupp Saal) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 8. Symphonie in c-Moll | 17.09.2026 | Gewandhausorchester | Herbert Blomstedt | Leipzig (Gewandhaus) | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Na warte, sagte Schwarte | 17.09.2026 | Reinhild Köhncke (Sprecherin), Mitglieder Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle | Hang Che | Schwerin (M*Halle) | weitere Termine |
| Ambroise | Thomas | Hamlet | 18.09.2026 | Michael Schönwandt, Regie: Krzysztof Warlikowski | Paris (Opéra National) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 19.09.2026 | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Dinis Sousa | Gateshead (The Sage) | konzertant |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 19.09.2026 | Andreas Wolf, Regie: Walter Sutcliffe | Halle | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 20.09.2026 | Tarmo Peltokoski, Regie: Daniele Finzi Pasca | Zürich | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Violation | 20.09.2026 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Julia Kurzydlak | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 20.09.2026 | Chris Stark, Regie: Harry Fehr | London (Blackheath Halls) | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXIII (in te domine speravi) für orgel solo | 20.09.2026 | Roman Summereder (Orgel) | Hannover (Nazarethkirche) | Uraufführung | |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 22.09.2026 | Giacomo Sagripanti, Regie: Stefano Poda | Toulouse | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel VIII (aus tiefer not schrei ich zu dir), choralvorspiel XL (te deum laudamus), choralvorspiel XLVI (morgenglanz der ewigkeit), choralvorspiel LI (kyrie XI, orbis factor) | 23.09.2026 | Hansjörg Albrecht (Orgel) | Berlin (Kathedrale St. Hedwig) | Uraufführung (choralvorspiel VIII) | |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Brucknerblume für Orgel | 23.09.2026 | Hansjörg Albrecht (Orgel) | Berlin (Kathedrale St. Hedwig) | ||
| Hector | Berlioz | Harold en Italie | 23.09.2026 | Timothy Ridout (Viola), Scottish Chamber Choir | Maxim Emelyanychev | Perth (Concert Hall) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate, re di Ponto | 24.09.2026 | Riccardo Frizza, Regie: Claus Guth | Neapel | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Die Prinzession auf der Erbst | 24.09.2026 | Stephan Hübner (Sprecher), Staatsorchester Darmstadt | Guillaume Fauchère | Darmstadt | auch 25.9. |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 25.09.2026 | Gianluca Martinenghi, Regie: Hugo de Ana | Sassari | Premiere | |
| Peter | Sculthorpe | Sun Music II | 25.09.2026 | Göttinger Symphonieorchester | Nicholas Milton | Göttingen (Stadthalle) | |
| Matthias | Pintscher | NUR | 25.09.2026 | Inon Barnatan (Klavier), Utah Symphony | Matthias Pintscher | Salt Lake City (Abravanel Hall) | |
| Lubica | Cekovská | At Béla's Window | 25.09.2026 | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rastislav Štúr | Bratislava (Grand Concert Hall of Slovak Radio) | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 25.09.2026 | Jakub Przybicien, Regie: Matthias Kitter | Nordhausen | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 26.09.2026 | Johannes Braun, Regie: Lorenzo Fioroni | Graz | Premiere | |
| Anders | Hillborg | Cello Concerto | 26.09.2026 | Ariel Barnes (Cello), Nürnberger Symphoniker | Jonathan Darlington | Nürnberg (Meistersingerhalle) | |
| Arnold | Bax | Tintagel | 28.09.2026 | Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven | Florian Ludwig | Bremerhaven | |
| Beat | Furrer | Pedro Beriso | 29.09.2026 | Ulfried Staber (Bass), Gerald Preinfalk (Saxophon) | Graz (BRUSEUM/Neue Galerie) | Uraufführung | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Zaide | 30.09.2026 | George Petrou, Regie: David Hermann | Frankfurt | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 7. Symphonie | 01.10.2026 | Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | Thomas Guggeis | Florenz | |
| George | Benjamin | At first Light | 02.10.2026 | Ensemble Modern Akademie | Wolfenbüttel (Landesmusikakademie Niedersachsen) | ||
| Anton | Bruckner | 2. Symphonie | 02.10.2026 | Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz | Christoph Eschenbach | Trier (Ehem. Reichsabtei St. Maximin) | |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Einklang | 02.10.2026 | Jenaer Philharmonie | Simon Gaudenz | Jena (Volkshaus) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 02.10.2026 | Michele Spotti, Regie: Ted Huffman | Valencia (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 02.10.2026 | Stefan Vladar, Regie: Philipp Himmelmann | Lübeck | Premiere | |
| Pietro Mascagni / | Ruggero Leoncavallo | Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci | 03.10.2026 | Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Regie: Pamela Recinella | Hagen | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 03.10.2026 | Chloé Dufresne, Regie: Ted Huffman | Rennes | Premiere | |
| Umberto | Giordano | Andrea Chénier | 03.10.2026 | Daniel Cohen, Regie: John Dew | Darmstadt | Premiere | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Dornröschen | 03.10.2026 | Carlo Benedetto Cimento, Choreographie: Reginaldo Oliveira | Palermo (Teatro Massimo) | Premiere | |
| Fromental | Halévy | La Juive | 03.10.2026 | Felix Bender, Regie: Marco Storman | Ulm | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 5. Symphonie | 04.10.2026 | Philharmonia Orchestra | Herbert Blomstedt | London (Royal Festival Hall) | |
| Jacques | Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann | 04.10.2026 | Sejoon Park, Regie: Anja Nicklich | Koblenz | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 06.10.2026 | Emmanuelle Haim, Regie: Ewelina Marciniak | Lille | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Wesendonck-Lieder | 08.10.2026 | Lapland Chamber Orchestra | Simon Rivard | Rovaniemi (Korundi) | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | ... mit durchscheinender Melancholie | 08.10.2026 | Hochschulorchester | Hamburg (Hochschule für Musik und Theater) | auch 9.10. | |
| Miroslav | Srnka | Superorganisms 1-4 | 09.10.2026 | Los Angeles Philharmonic | Susanna Mälkki | Los Angeles (Walt Disney Concert Hall) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 09.10.2026 | Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo | Iván López-Reynoso | Neapel (Teatro di San Carlo) | konzertant |
| Anton | Bruckner | 9. Symphonie | 10.10.2026 | Bamberger Symphoniker | Manfred Honeck | Bamberg (Konzerthalle) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orphée et Eurydice | 10.10.2026 | Alphonse Cemin, Regie: Lorraine de Sagazan | Nantes (Théâtre Graslin) | Premiere | |
| Jonathan | Harvey | Bird Concerto with Pianosong | 10.10.2026 | Antoine Francoise (Piano), Ensemble Contrechamps | Gregory Charette | Genf (Auditorium Ansermet) | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Eugen Onegin | 10.10.2026 | Hermes Helfricht, Regie: Matthew Ferraro | Erfurt | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | Herbst, Enigma I-IV & VI, Enigma V, Enigma VII | 10.10.2026 | Cantando Admont | Cordula Bürgi | Graz (Helmut List Halle) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Ottone | 11.10.2026 | Václav Luks, Regie: Jetske Mijnssen | Frankfurt | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 13.10.2026 | Pablo González, Regie: Marta Pazos | Teneriffa (Auditorio) | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Riccardo primo, Re d’Inghilterra | 14.10.2026 | Les Arts Florissants | Paul Agnew | Dijon (Grand Théatre) | weitere Termine |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Torso - Epitaph | 14.10.2026 | Luzerner Sinfonieorchester | Michael Sanderling | Luzern (KKL) | auch 15.10. |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Brucknerblume für Orgel | 14.10.2026 | Daniel Baker (Orgel) | Luzern (KKL) | auch 15.10. | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 3. Symphonie | 15.10.2026 | Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt | Hermes Helfricht | Erfurt | |
| Francesco | Filidei | Puccini alla caccia | 15.10.2026 | Studierende der HKB - Musik | Brian Archinal | Bern (Fachhochschule BFH) | |
| Beat | Furrer | Konzert für Klavier und Orchester | 15.10.2026 | Orquesta Sinfónica de l'ESMUC | Ernest Martínez Izquierdo | Barcelona | |
| Gioachino | Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | 15.10.2026 | Chloe Rooke, Regie: Annabel Arden | Glyndebourne (Opera Festival) | Premiere | |
| Bernd Alois | Zimmermann | Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu | 15.10.2026 | Münchner Philharmoniker | Anja Bihlmaier | München (Isarphilharmonie) | |
| Torsten | Rasch | Die wunderbaren Jahre | 16.10.2026 | Christian Blex, Regie: Nora Bussenius | Dresden | Premiere | |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 17.10.2026 | Kiril Stankow, Regie: Thomas Schmidt-Ehrenberg | Schwerin (Theaterzelt am Küchengarten) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 5. Symphonie | 17.10.2026 | NHK Symphony Orchestra | Matthias Bamert | Tokio (NHK Hall) | |
| Salvatore | Sciarrino | Gesualdo senza parole | 17.10.2026 | Klangforum Wien | Sylvain Cambreling | Wien (Konzerthaus) | |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 20.10.2026 | Daniele Rustioni, Regie: Johannes Erath | Mailand (Teatro alla Scala) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | Symphonie f-Moll | 22.10.2026 | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks | Simone Young | München (Residenz) | |
| Ruggiero | Leoncavallo | La Bohème | 22.10.2026 | Chor und Orchester der Oper Graz | Daniela Musca | Graz | konzertant |
| Dieter | Ammann | Viola Concerto „No templates“ | 23.10.2026 | John Stulz (Viola), Ensemble Intercontemporain | George Benjamin | Paris (Cité de la Musique) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Flavio, Re de’ Langobardi | 23.10.2026 | Camille Delaforge, Regie: Max Emanuel Cencic | Meiningen | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Semele | 23.10.2026 | Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Rinaldo Alessandrini | Bologna (Teatro Comunale) | konzertant |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Occasional Oratorio | 24.10.2026 | La strada armónica | Matthias Beckert | Würzburg (KdöR) | |
| Benjamin | Britten | Young Apollo | 24.10.2026 | Camerata Bern | Alexander Melnikov | Bern (Zentrum Paul Klee) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Semele | 25.10.2026 | Orchestra, Coro e Tecnici del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Rinaldo Alessandrini | Bologna (Teatro Comunale) | |
| Arnold | Bax | Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Harp & String Quartet | 27.10.2026 | Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra | Warschau (Chamber Music Hall) | ||
| Matthias | Pintscher | Assonanza | 29.10.2026 | Leila Josefowicz (Violine), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthias Pintscher | Stockholm (Konserthuset) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 29.10.2026 | N.N., Regie: Nilufar K. Münzing | Klagenfurt | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | glut | 30.10.2026 | Estonian National Symphony Orchestra | Gregor A. Mayrhofer | Tallinn (Festival AFEKT, Estonia Concert Hall) | |
| Pietro Mascagni / | Ruggero Leoncavallo | Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci | 31.10.2026 | Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Regie: Pamela Recinella | Hagen | Premiere | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Schwanensee | 31.10.2026 | Camerata Louis Spohr | Bernd Peter Fugelsang | Düsseldorf | |
| Ambroise | Thomas | Hamlet | 01.11.2026 | Chelsea Opera Group | Jonathon Cole-Swinard | London (Cadogan Hall) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Turn | 04.11.2026 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Paavo Järvi | Zürich (Tonhalle) | auch 5./6.11. |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Iphigénie en Tauride | 06.11.2026 | David Bates, Regie: Lyndsey Turner | London (Coliseum) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 06.11.2026 | Bamberger Symphoniker | Jakub Hrusa | Brünn (Janácek-Theater) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | glut | 06.11.2026 | hr-Sinfonieorchester | Michael Wendeberg | Frankfurt (hr-Sendesaal) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Core | 07.11.2026 | Orchester der Oper Zürich | Gianandrea Noseda | Zürich | |
| Pietro | Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana | 07.11.2026 | Vito Cristofaro, Regie: Gil Mehmert | Dortmund | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | Neues Werk für Orchester | 07.11.2026 | Kammerorchester Basel | Pierre Bleuse | Basel (Stadtcasino) | Uraufführung |
| Hector | Berlioz | Grande messe des morts | 08.11.2026 | Wiener Symphoniker | Maxime Pascal | Wien (Musikverein) | |
| Engelbert | Humperdinck | Dornröschen | 08.11.2026 | Markus Poschner, Regie: Anna Bergmann | Hamburg | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 13.11.2026 | Ottavio Dantone, Regie: Chiara Muti | Ravenna (Ravenna Festival) | Premiere | |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 13.11.2026 | Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Roberto Abbado | Bologna (Teatro Comunale) | konzertant |
| Hector | Berlioz | Orphée | 14.11.2026 | Antony Walker, Regie: José Maria Condemi | Pittsburgh (Byham Theater) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 14.11.2026 | Ottavio Dantone, Regie: Chiara Muti | Ravenna (Ravenna Festival) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 14.11.2026 | Danyil Ilkiv, Regie: Marijke Malitius | Passau | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | a sei voci für 6 Frauenstimmen | 15.11.2026 | Cantando Admont | Cordula Bürgi | Münchendorf (Musiksalon) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 18.11.2026 | HSO Hochschulsinfonieorchester | Roland Kluttig | Dresden (Hochschule für Musik) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Agrippina | 21.11.2026 | Gerd Amelung, Regie: Claudia Isabel Martin | Heidelberg | Premiere | |
| Václav | Trojan | Märchen | 21.11.2026 | Kammerorchester der TUD | Florian Streich | Groß-Umstadt (Stadthalle) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 21.11.2026 | Hélio Vida, Regie: Nikolaus Habjan | Basel | Premiere | |
| Henry | Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | 21.11.2026 | Daniel Geiss, Regie: Seollyeon Konwitschny-Lee | Neubrandenburg | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 25.11.2026 | David McVicar, Regie: Bettina Neuhaus | Barcelona | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 26.11.2026 | Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra | Giancarlo Andretta | Budapest (Müpa) | konzertant |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Agrippina | 27.11.2026 | Constantin Trinks, Regie: Walter Sutcliffe | Sofia | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Agrippina | 28.11.2026 | Jinie Ka, Regie: Gregor Horres | Linz (Black Box Musiktheater) | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Das Mondklavier | 29.11.2026 | Beate Bachmann (Sprecherin), Jenaer Philharmonie | Jena (Volkshaus) | ||
| Giovanni | Sollima | Violoncelles, vibrez! | 02.12.2026 | Münchener Kammerorchester | Daniel Giglberger | Olten (Stadttheater) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Gehörte Form - Hommages | 03.12.2026 | Trio Sola | Zürich (Tonhalle) | ||
| Georges | Bizet | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | 05.12.2026 | Marc Minkowski, Regie: Pierre-André Weitz | Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 06.12.2026 | Erik Brünner (Sprecher), Jugendsinfonieorchester Heinrich-Schütz-Konservatorium, Dresdner Philharmonie | Milko Kersten | Dresden (Kulturpalast) | auch 7.12. |
| Francesco | Filidei | I funerali dell’anarchico Serantini | 09.12.2026 | Studierende der Hochschule | Karlsruhe (Hochschule für Musik) | ||
| Miroslav | Srnka | Smoke | 10.12.2026 | NHK Symphony Orchestra | Maxim Emelyanychev | Tokio (Suntory Hall) | Uraufführung |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 13.12.2026 | Marta Gardolinska, Regie: Jetske Mijnssen | Genf (Bâtiment des Forces Motrices) | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 17.12.2026 | Bertrand de Billy, Regie: Lydia Steier | Wien (Staatsoper) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 18.12.2026 | Felix Bender, Regie: David Bösch | Ulm | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Thaïs | 18.12.2026 | Pierre Dumoussaud, Regie: Olivier Lepelletier-Leeds | Liège | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Flavio, Re de’ Langobardi | 19.12.2026 | Karsten Januschke, Regie: Tilmann Köhler | Frankfurt (Bockenheimer Depot) | Premiere | |
| Georges | Bizet | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | 29.12.2026 | Victorien Vanoosten, Regie: Mirabelle Ordinaire | Toulon (Zénith) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Thamos, König in Ägypten | 12.01.2027 | Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento | Christophe Rousset | Bozen (Auditorium) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | glut | 13.01.2027 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Gianandrea Noseda | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 16.01.2027 | Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg | Christopher Schumann | Nürnberg | konzertant |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 19.01.2027 | Stefano Montanari, Regie: Rafael R. Villalobos | Valencia | Premiere | |
| Richard | Dubugnon | Sonnenring | 20.01.2027 | Janine Jansen (Violine), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Jonathan Nott | Genf (Victoria Hall) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Orlando | 21.01.2027 | Daniel Espasa, Regie: Rafael Villalobos | Teneriffa (Auditorio) | Premiere | |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 23.01.2027 | Francesco Angelico, Regie: Vasily Barkhatov | Graz | Premiere | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 23.01.2027 | Eric Staiger, Regie: Aileen Schneider | Oldenburg | Premiere | |
| Engelbert | Humperdinck | Königskinder | 23.01.2027 | Markus Poschner, Regie: Paul-Georg Dittrich | Linz | Premiere | |
| Giovanni | Sollima | When We Were Trees | 24.01.2027 | Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester | Reto Bieri | Pforzheim (CongressCentrum) | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 24.01.2027 | Oliver Moumouris (Sprecher), Württembergische Philharmonie | Hans Grischkat | Reutlingen (Georgensaal) | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Abendröthe | 28.01.2027 | Christian Gerhaher (Bariton), Gerold Huber (Piano) | Kronberg (Kronberg Academy, Casals Forum) | auch 4.2. München | |
| Benjamin | Britten | Young Apollo | 29.01.2027 | Dresdner Philharmonie | Donald Runnicles | Dresden (Kulturpalast) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 29.01.2027 | Kirill Gerstein (Klavier), Dresdner Philharmonie | Aapo Häkkinen, Regie: Tero Saarinen | Helsinki | Premiere |
| Engelbert | Humperdinck | Königskinder | 30.01.2027 | Justus Thorau, Regie: Angela Denoke | Saarbrücken | Premiere | |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 30.01.2027 | Jiri Rozen, Regie: Caterina Cianfarini | Basel | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 30.01.2027 | Marco Alibrando, Regie: Marcos Darbyshire | Weimar | Premiere | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Eugen Onegin | 05.02.2027 | Felix Bender, Regie: Benjamin Künzel | Ulm | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 05.02.2027 | Václav Luks, Regie: Jiri Herman | Brünn (Janácek-Theater) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 05.02.2027 | John Warner, Regie: Krystian Lader | Gelsenkirchen | Premiere | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Les Boréades | 05.02.2027 | Camille Delaforge, Regie: R.B. Schlather | Dublin (Irish National Opera) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 8. Symphonie | 06.02.2027 | Gewandhausorchester | Christoph Gedschold | Leipzig (Opernhaus) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 10.02.2027 | Thomas Hengelbrock, Regie: Netia Jones | London (Royal Opera House) | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 11.02.2027 | Nathalie Stutzmann, Regie: Robert Carsen | Paris (Opéra National) | Premiere | |
| Frank | Martinu | Mass for double choir a cappella | 11.02.2027 | BBC Singers and Edvard Grieg Kor | Daniel Hyde | Bergen (Grieghallen) | |
| Henry | Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | 13.02.2027 | Lorenz Höß, Regie: Markus Dietze | Koblenz | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 13.02.2027 | Gerrit Prießnitz, Regie: Anna-Sophie Mahler | Innsbruck | Premiere | |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 13.02.2027 | Marco Comin, Regie: N.N. | Bremerhaven | Premiere | |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Fidelio | 17.02.2027 | Kensho Watanabe, Regie: Ruth Knight | Glasgow | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Samson | 18.02.2027 | Monteverdi Chor, Lautten Compagney | Antonius Adamske | Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Rinaldo | 22.02.2027 | Philippe Jaroussky, Regie: Valentina Carrasco | Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) | Premiere | |
| Frank | Martinu | Mass for double choir a cappella | 26.02.2027 | Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir | Tõnu Kaljuste | Rotterdam (de Doelen) | weitere Termine |
| Dieter | Ammann | unbalanced instability für Violine und Kammerorchester | 25.02.2027 | Carolin Widmann (Violine), Tonhalle-Orchester | Hannu Lintu | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Oliver | Leith | Last Days | 27.02.2027 | André de Ridder, Friedrike Scheunchen, Regie: Lily Kuhlmann | Freiburg | Premiere | |
| Bedrich | Smetana | Die verkaufte Braut | 28.02.2027 | Tómas Netopil, Regie: Laurent Pelly | Köln | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 05.03.2027 | Kaspar Zehnder, Regie: Joel Lauwers | Metz | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Serse | 06.03.2027 | Clément Lonca, Regie: Lorenzo Fioroni | Bern | Premiere | |
| Ambroise | Thomas | Hamlet | 07.03.2027 | Seok-Won Hong, Regie: Nicola Berloffa | Teneriffa (Auditorio) | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | König Karotte | 11.03.2027 | Stephan Hübner (Sprecher), Staatsorchester Darmstadt | Darmstadt | ||
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Rinaldo | 14.03.2027 | Philippe Jaroussky, Regie: Valentina Carrasco | Zürich | Premiere | |
| Bohuslav | Martinu | Konzert Nr. 2 für Violine und Orchester | 15.03.2027 | Kirill Kobantschenko (Violine), Sinfonia Academica | David Holzinger | Wien (Mozartsaal) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Iphigénie en Aulide | 20.03.2027 | Ivan Demidov, Regie: Jochen Biganzoli | Augsburg | Premiere | |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 23.03.2027 | Orchestre Symphonique de la Garde républicaine | Bastien Stil | Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées) | konzertant |
| Lubica | Cekovská | Toy Procession for orchestra | 08.04.2027 | Bamberger Symphoniker | Juraj Valcuha | Fulda (Schlosstheater) | auch 10./11.4. Bamberg |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Rinaldo | 09.04.2027 | Francesco Corti, Regie: Nadja Loschky | Wien (Theater an der Wien) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 10.04.2027 | Levente Török, Regie: Rahel Thiel | Aachen | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Die verlorene Melodie | 11.04.2027 | Stephan Hübner, Sprecher / Jenaer Philharmonie | Arturs Oskars Mitrevics | Jena (Volkshaus) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 16.04.2027 | N.N., Regie: Hinrich Horstkotte | Meiningen | Premiere | |
| Francesco | Cilèa | L'Arlesiana | 17.04.2027 | Staatskapelle Weimar | Daniel Carter | Weimar | konzertant |
| Bedrich | Smetana | Die verkaufte Braut | 17.04.2027 | N.N., Regie: Maren Schäfer | Krefeld | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | Orphée | 20.04.2027 | Speranza Scapucci, Regie: Ted Huffman | Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse | 21.04.2027 | Antje Horn (Erzählerin), Meininger Hofkapelle | Meiningen | ||
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 23.04.2027 | Daniel Inbal, Regie: Kai Anne Schuhmacher | Pforzheim | Premiere | |
| Lubica | Cekovská | Toy Procession for orchestra | 23.04.2027 | Utah Symphony | Ludovic Morlot | Salt Lake City (Abravanel Hall) | auch 24.4. |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 24.04.2027 | Pedro Beriso, Regie: Maria Chagina | St. Gallen | Premiere | |
| Ferdinando | Paer | Leonora | 24.04.2027 | Giulio Cilona, Regie: Andrea Moses | Dresden (Semperoper) | Premiere | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 25.04.2027 | Yorgos Ziavras, Regie: Greg Eldridge | Wuppertal | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 30.04.2027 | Gabriel Venzago, Regie: Jan Eßinger | Mainz | Premiere | |
| Engelbert | Humperdinck | Königskinder | 01.05.2027 | Christian Thielemann, Regie: David Bösch | Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 02.05.2027 | Pavel Baleff, Regie: Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil | Limoges | Premiere | |
| Matthias | Pintscher | NUR | 05.05.2027 | Realtime Orchester | Mercedes Diaz Garcia | Bremen (Theater am Leipnizplatz) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 07.05.2027 | Kaspar Zehnder, Regie: Florent Siaud | Avignon | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 08.05.2027 | Alessandro Quarta, Regie: Felix Seiler | Kiel | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 15.05.2027 | Vito Cristofaro, Regie: Georg Heckel | Oldenburg | Premiere | |
| Leos | Janácek | Glagolitische Messe | 20.05.2027 | Prager Philharmonischer Chor, Dresdner Philharmonie | David Robertson | Dresden (Kulturpalast) | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Jack und die Bohnenranke | 22.05.2027 | Elke Kottmair (Sprecherin), Kärntner Sinfonieorchester | N.N. | Klagenfurt | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Le réseau des reprises | 27.05.2027 | Tonhalle-Orchester | Cristian Macelaru | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 28.05.2027 | Corinna Niemeyer, Regie: Andrea Bernard | Lausanne | Premiere | |
| Robert | Oboussier | Amphitryon | 29.05.2027 | Daniel Carter, Regie: Kerstin Steeb | Weimar | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 05.06.2027 | Sébastien Rouland, Regie: Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau | Saarbrücken | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 05.06.2027 | Maximilian Otto, Regie: Nilufar K. Münzing | Chemnitz | Premiere | |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Leonore (1805) | 13.06.2027 | Chorwerk Ruhr, Dresdner Philharmonie | Dorothee Oberlinger | Dresden (Kulturpalast, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci) | |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 13.06.2027 | Gianandrea Noseda, Regie: Evgeny Titov | Zürich | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 16.06.2027 | Kyrian Friedenberg, Regie: Jean-Yves Ruf | Châteauvallon | Premiere | |
| Lubica | Cekovská | Sanctus Adalbertus Oratorio | 16.06.2027 | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Prague Symphony Orchestra | Tomáš Netopil | Prag (Municipal house) | Uraufführung, auch 20.6. Litomyšl |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Alceste | 25.06.2027 | Titus Engel, Regie: Milo Rau | Stuttgart | Premiere |
Flexible Forms
Rudolf Kelterborn’s Ensemble-Buch V”, a composition for six instruments, receives its premiere in Zurich. His series of “Books” for differently-scored ensembles explore a multifaceted variety of forms.
[t]akte: Rudolf Kelterborn, your Ensemble-Bücher I, II and IV are works for voice and different instrumental forces, and explore the multitude of relationships between text and music. In your new Ensemble-Buch V you’ve composed a purely instrumental work (as you did previously in Buch III), however, the movements have very eloquent, poetic titles: Chemins, Dark music – Cris du monde, Natura morta 1, Illuminations, Beating and Whispering, Natura morta 2 – Apertura). Is there also a reference here to literary works?
Kelterborn: With my Ensemble-Buch V there is no literary background or other references to extra-musical events. The “eloquent, poetic” movement titles might, however, draw the listener’s imagination in a particular direction, and in the process, illustrative or poetic associations are more than possible – but such personal associations would be, so to speak, “private” and in no way universally binding.
What should the listener expect in the individual movements of Ensemble-Buch V? How do you approach the delightful forces of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion?
My Ensemble-Bücher are compositions in which the whole ensemble is only used as one of several scoring formations. In my Ensemble-Buch I for baritone and 13 instruments to poems by Erika Burkart, as well as tutti movements there are, for example, two movements just for baritone and piano, a movement for baritone, violin and cello, a “Nachtstück” for eight instruments, etc. In my most recent purely instrumental Ensemble-Buch V, in five of the six movements all six instruments are used; but within the individual movements different sub-groups are constantly created. The first movement “Chemins”, for example, begins with a duo of piano/percussion, and a longer section for clarinet, cello, piano and percussion follows – tutti scoring is only used in the last section of the movement. Or in the second movement “Dark Music – Cris du monde”, the opening is scored for a darkly-coloured ensemble with bass flute, bass clarinet, cello, piano and percussion, whilst the last part is contested by a quartet (flute, clarinet, violin and cello). “Natura morta 1” (the third movement) is scored for just violin and piano, the last movement “Natura morta 2 – Apertura” for bass clarinet and percussion in the first section, and in the second section then for the whole ensemble.
Your Ensemble-Bücher seem to be like an encyclopaedia of the many and diverse possibilities for the different scorings. Do the “Bücher” also form a cycle within themselves which the titles might suggest?
The Ensemble-Bücher I–V are each independent compositions, they don’t form a cycle. But you could definitely perform three of the works one after another in a concert, for example. I can well imagine that this might produce the effect of a greater whole.
Which formal aspects should be emphasized?
The special approach to the scoring of the ensemble in each Ensemble-Buch, in which the tutti is only one of several different formations, of course essentially determines the forms of the individual movements as well as the whole work. At the same time the use of different types of a family of instruments (for example, flute, piccolo, alto and bass flute) can enrich the formal possibilities.
Interview by Marie Luise Maintz
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