New orchestral works
Works by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini and Ľubica Čekovská will premiere in Bremen and Houston in November

Charlotte Seither was born in Landau/Palatinate in 1965 and studied composition, piano, German studies and musicology in Hanover and Berlin. In 1998 she received her doctorate in philosophy. She has received numerous prizes and awards, including first prize in the international composition competition “Prague Spring” (1995), the sponsorship prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2003), first prize in the international composition competition “Premi International Ciutat de Palma” (2004 ), the Praetorius Music Prize of the State of Lower Saxony in 2010, the Palatinate Music Prize in 2012 and the German Music Author Prize in the category of contemporary choral music in 2014. at the Cité des Arts Paris (1999), at the Palazzo Barbarigo Venice (1993), at the Villa Aurora Los Angeles (2000) and in 2009 at the Villa Massimo Rome. In 2013 she received a scholarship from the Villa Concordia Bamberg. After a guest professorship at the Bremen University of the Arts (2002), she continued to work there as a lecturer in contemporary music, followed by other teaching assignments and professorships, including the professorship for composition at the Munich University of Music and Theater in 2021. Her works are performed at numerous festivals, e.g. with BBC Symphony Orchestra London, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague, ASKO Kamerkoor, IFWM Festival Seoul, GRAME Festival Lyon, Nuova Consonanza Rome, LACMA Los Angeles and GAUDEAMUS Amsterdam. She is a member of the GEMA Supervisory Board, GEMA Foundation Advisory Board, Bogliasco Foundation Fellow Advisory Council / Italy, Board of Directors of the German Composers Association (DKV), she has been Chairwoman of the Music Advisory Board of the Guardini Foundation Berlin since 2021 and a member of the INMM Darmstadt Board of Directors. She was a jury member most recently: Paul Abraham Composition Prize for contemporary music theater, Music Prize Saxony-Anhalt 2022, Concorso Internazionale di Composizione per Orchestra “2 Agosto” di Bologna 2022, New Start Culture I – support program of the German Music Council, New Start Culture II – support program of the German Music Council, New Culture III – support program of the German Music Council, German Music Competition for Composition, support program for repertoire education of the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia, EZM support for orchestral music of the German Music Council.
In 2021, the world premieres of “fragend licht” (2021) for 8-part chamber choir and two cellos, anniversary concert for Sophie Scholl’s 100th birthday, Ensemble Vocantare Berlin, conductor: Tobias Walenciak, and of “Ferne Begegnung. Trois Adieux für Ludwig from B.” (2018) for chamber orchestra, German Orchestra Competition Bonn 2020/21, prize-winning orchestra of the competition (corona-related catch-up competition online). In 2022, among other things, “Sisters” (2022) for violin, violoncello and piano, a work commissioned by Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg for the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, was premiered and in the 2023/24 season of the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen the premiere of the stage work “Fidelio Schweigt. Dialog- opera” will take place.
| composer_first_name | composer_last_name | title | date | orchestra | conductor | location | special |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat | Furrer | Begehren | 03.12.2025 | Cantando Admont & Ensemble Écoute | Fernando Palomeque | Paris (Salle Cortot) | konzertant |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Messe in c-Moll | 04.12.2025 | Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthews Halls | Bergen (Grieghallen) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 06.12.2025 | Guiliano Betta, Regie: Giuseppe Spota | Gelsenkirchen | Premiere | |
| Jonathan | Harvey | Tranquil Abiding | 07.12.2025 | Gürzenich-Orchester Köln | Sakari Oramo | Köln (Philharmonie) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate, Re di Ponto | 07.12.2025 | Leo Hussain, Regie: Claus Guth | Frankfurt | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Ariodante | 09.12.2025 | Stefano Montanari, Regie: Jetske Mijnssen | London (Royal Opera House) | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | haché für orgel solo, englouti für orgel solo | 09.12.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | München (musica viva, Herkulessaal der Residenz) | ||
| Lubica | Cekovská | ORNITHIC TALES for Woodwind Trio | 11.12.2025 | Trio Aperto | Brünn (Villa Löw-Beer) | Uraufführung | |
| George | Benjamin | Concerto for Orchestra | 12.12.2025 | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks | George Benjamin | München (Residenz) | |
| Claudio | Monteverdi | L’incoronazione di Poppea | 12.12.2025 | Martin Schelhaas, Regie: Judith Lebiez | Schwerin | Premiere | |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 13.12.2025 | National Radio Choir, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest | Stéphane Denève | Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Schwanensee | 14.12.2025 | Sinfonieorchester Aachen | Christopher Ward | Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) | |
| Giselher | Klebe | Al Rovescio | 14.12.2025 | Ensemble Earquake | Merve Kazokoglu | Detmold (Hochschule für Musik) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 14.12.2025 | Francesco Corti, Regie: Tom Goossens | Gent | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel II (rorate cæli desuper) für orgel solo | 14.12.2025 | Andreas Sieling (Orgel) | Berlin (Dom) | Uraufführung | |
| Jacques | Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann | 16.12.2025 | Emmanuel Villaume, Regie: Damiano Michieletto | Lyon | Premiere | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 17.12.2025 | Jordi Bernacer, Regie: Stephen Medcalf | Bari (Teatro Petruzzelli) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 8. Symphonie | 18.12.2025 | Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana | Fabio Luisi | Valencia (Palau de Les Arts) | |
| Anders | Hillborg | Piano Concerto No. 2 | 18.12.2025 | Emanuel Ax (Klavier), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks | Esa-Pekka Salonen | München (Residenz) | |
| Hector | Berlioz | L’enfance du Christ | 19.12.2025 | Netherlands Radio Choir, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest | Edward Gardner | Utrecht (Tivoli) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 20.12.2025 | Basil H. E. Coleman, Regie: Ultz | Passau | Premiere | |
| Guido | Masanetz | In Frisco ist der Teufel los | 21.12.2025 | Kai Tietje, Szenisches Arrangement: Martin G. Berger | Berlin (Komische Oper, Schillertheater) | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XIX (wie schön leucht’ uns der morgenstern) für orgel | 22.12.2025 | Max Carsley (Orgel) | Salisbury (Cathedral) | auch 23.12. | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Das Alexanderfest oder Die Macht der Musik | 31.12.2025 | Heinrich-Schütz Ensemble, Barockorchester St. Martin | Eckhard Manz | Kassel (Martinskirche) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 08.01.2026 | Wiener Symphoniker | Philippe Jordan | Wien (Konzerthaus) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 5. Symphonie | 11.01.2026 | Sächsische Staatskapelle | Herbert Blomstedt | Dresden (Semperoper) | |
| L’ubica | Cekovska | Toy Procession | 15.01.2026 | Slovenská filharmónia | Juraj Valcuha | Bratislava (Philharmonie) | Slowak. Erstauff., auch 16.1. |
| Bohuslav | Martinu | Rhapsody-Concerto | 15.01.2026 | Antoine Tamestit (Viola), Antwerp Symphony Orchestra | Jonathan Bloxham | Gent (De Bijloke) | |
| Charlotte | Seither | Never real, always true für Akkordeon solo | 15.01.2026 | Margit Kern (Akkordeon) | Berlin (Heimathafen Neukölln, Ultraschall Festival) | ||
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 16.01.2026 | Ensemble Concerto München | Jordi Francés | Teneriffa (Auditorio) | konzertant |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 17.01.2026 | Carlo Benedetto Cimento, Regie: Chiara Osella, Carlo Massari | Salzburg (Landestheater) | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 19.01.2026 | Raphael Pichon, Regie: Ted Huffman | Paris (Opéra Comique) | Premiere | |
| Miroslav | Srnka | Emojis, Likes and Ringtones, Overheating for ensemble | 20.01.2026 | Ensemble Modern | Michael Wendeberg | Frankfurt (Oper) | |
| Beat | Furrer | Ira-Arca für Bassflöte und Kontrabass | 20.01.2026 | Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin | Berlin (Konzerthaus) | ||
| Anton | Bruckner | 7. Symphonie | 22.01.2026 | Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach | Istanbul (Lütfi Kirdar ICEC) | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Schwanensee | 22.01.2026 | Nicola Giuliani, Choreographie: Jean-Sébastien Colau | Palermo (Teatro Massimo) | Premiere | |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Musik zu Goethes Trauerspiel Egmont | 22.01.2026 | Kammerorchester Basel | Giovanni Antonini | Olten (Stadttheater) | weitere Termine |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 23.01.2026 | Fabio Biondi, Regie: Shirin Neshat | Parma | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 23.01.2026 | Philharmonia Chor Wien, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg | Roberto González-Monjas | Salzburg (Mozartwoche, Haus für Salzburg) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | der zerfall einer illusion in farbige scherben für orchester mit obligatem akkordeon | 23.01.2026 | Sinfonietta R?ga | Normunds Sn? | Riga (Liela Aula) | Lettische Erstaufführung |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Platée | 24.01.2026 | Nicholas Kok, Regie: Anja Kühnhold | Hagen | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Der Mistkäfer | 25.01.2026 | Clara-Schumann-Philharmoniker | Dionysis Pantis | Plauen (Vogtlandtheater) | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Eugen Onegin | 26.01.2026 | Case Scaglione, Regie: Ralph Fiennes | Paris (Opéra National) | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | Benvenuto Cellini | 28.01.2026 | Alain Altinoglu, Regie: Thaddeus Strassberger | Brüssel | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 28.01.2026 | Cottbus (Staatstheater) | |||
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 29.01.2026 | Jenaer Philharmonie | Mario Venzago | Jena (Volkshaus) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 30.01.2026 | Maximilian Otto, Regie: Dennis Krauß | Chemnitz | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 30.01.2026 | Kirill Karabits, Regie: Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil (le Lab) | Nizza | Premiere | |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Die Geisterbraut | 30.01.2026 | Opernchor, Hofer Symphoniker | Peter Kattermann | Hof | Premiere, konzertant |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Requiem | 31.01.2026 | Ivan Demidov, Choreographie: Peter Chu | Augsburg (Martini-Park) | Premiere | |
| Engelbert | Humperdinck | Königskinder | 31.01.2026 | Kenichiro Kojima, Regie: Lars Scheibner | Neustrelitz | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 31.01.2026 | Markus Merkel, Regie: Markus Dietze | Koblenz | Premiere | |
| Jacques | Offenbach | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | 31.01.2026 | Takahiro Nagasaki, Regie: Philipp Himmelmann | Lübeck | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Orlando | 02.02.2026 | Capella Cracoviensis | Thibault Noally | Krakau (ICE) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 3. Symphonie | 05.02.2026 | Neubrandenburger Philharmonie | Marcus Bosch | Neubrandenburg (Konzertkirche) | weitere Termine |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 05.02.2026 | Attilio Cremonesi, Regie: Carolin Pienkos, Cornelius Obonya | Klagenfurt | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | L’enfance du Christ | 06.02.2026 | Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Mark Elder | Castellón (Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos) | |
| Miroslav | Srnka | Superorganisms | 06.02.2026 | Ensemble Modern, hr-Sinfonieorchester | Sylvain Cambreling | Frankfurt (cresc… Biennale für aktuelle Musik) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 07.02.2026 | Basil H.E. Coleman, Regie: Stephen Medcalf | Passau | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 07.02.2026 | Jochem Hochstenbach, Regie: Holger Potocki | Trier | Premiere | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 07.02.2026 | Keri-Lynn Wilson, Regie: Calixto Bieito | Paris (Opéra Bastille) | Premiere | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Eugen Onegin | 07.02.2026 | Christopher Ward, Regie: Verena Stoiber | Aachen | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 9. Symphonie | 13.02.2026 | Sächsische Staatskapelle | Daniele Gatti | Dresden (Semperoper) | |
| Matthias | Pintscher | Verzeichnete Spur | 13.02.2026 | Mannes School of Music | David Fulmer | New York (New School Tishman Auditorium) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 14.02.2026 | Daniele Squeo, Regie: Christoph Dammann | Kaiserslautern | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 14.02.2026 | Gerrit Prießnitz, Regie: Henry Mason | Innsbruck (Tiroler Landestheater) | Premiere | |
| Eric | Coates | Calling All Workers | 15.02.2026 | Jenaer Philharmonie | Daniel Spaw | Jena (Volkshaus) | |
| Pietro Mascagni / | Ruggero Leoncavallo | Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci | 15.02.2026 | Alma Deutscher, Regie: Shawna Lucey | San José (California Theatre) | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | König Karotte | 18.02.2026 | Cottbus (Staatstheater) | |||
| Anton | Bruckner | 8. Symphonie | 19.02.2026 | Philharmonia Orchestra | Donald Runnicles | London (Royal Festival Hall) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | 20.02.2026 | David Stern, Regie: N.N. | Palm Beach (Kravis Center) | Premiere | |
| Thomas | Adès | Violin Concerto | 20.02.2026 | Leila Josefowicz (Violine), Tonhalle Orchester | Pierre-André Valade | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Tamerlano | 20.02.2026 | René Jacobs, Regie: Kobie van Rensburg | Karlsruhe (Internationale Händel-Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 20.02.2026 | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Stéphane Denève | St. Louis (Powell Hall) | konzertant |
| Bedrich | Smetana | Mein Vaterland | 22.02.2026 | Staatsorchester Stuttgart | Dennis Russel Davies | Stuttgart (Liederhalle) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 28.02.2026 | Marc Minkowski, Regie: Vincent Boussard | Valencia (Palau de les Arts) | Premiere | |
| George | Benjamin | Written on Skin | 01.03.2026 | Erik Nielsen, Regie: Tatjana Gürbaca | Frankfurt | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Rinaldo | 02.03.2026 | Les Arts Florissants | Paul Agnew | Paris (Philharmonie) | konzertant |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Der Mistkäfer | 03.03.2026 | Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz | Mainz | weitere Termine | |
| Joseph | Haydn | Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz | 07.03.2026 | Ensemble Resonanz | Riccardo Minasi | Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) | auch 8.5. Hamburg |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Schwanensee | 07.03.2026 | Gerrit Prießnitz, Choreographie: Marcel Leemann | Innsbruck (Tiroler Landestheater) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Ascanio in Alba | 10.03.2026 | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset | Wien (Theater an der Wien) | weitere Termine |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 10.03.2026 | Enrico Onofri, Regie: Calixto Bieito | Brüssel | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 11.03.2026 | Gianluca Capuano, Regie: Davide Livermore | Zürich | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 13.03.2026 | Laurent Brack, Regie: Ned Grujic | Courbevoie (LabOpéra Hauts-de-Seine) | Premiere | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Die Lieben der Berenice | 14.03.2026 | Andreas Spering, Choreographie: Anton Lachky | Luzern | Premiere | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 14.03.2026 | Lorenz Höß, Regie: Inga Schulte | Koblenz (Theaterzelt) | Premiere | |
| Claudio | Monteverdi | L’incoronazione di Poppea | 14.03.2026 | Takahiro Nagasaki, Regie: Johannes Pölzgutter | Lübeck | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 14.03.2026 | Gabriel Venzago, Regie: Dominik Wilgenbus | Mainz | Premiere | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Iphigénie en Tauride | 14.03.2026 | André de Ridder, Regie: Caterina Cianfarini | Freiburg | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 16.03.2026 | Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris | Marek Janowski | Paris (Opéra National) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Aci, Galatea e Polifemo | 20.03.2026 | Orchester Opernhaus Zürich | Philippe Jaroussky | Zürich | konzertant |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La finta giardiniera | 21.03.2026 | Christopher Schumann, Regie: Brigitte Fassbaender | Nürnberg | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 21.03.2026 | Andreas Kowalewitz, Regie: Manuel Schmitt | Regensburg | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | König Karotte | 22.03.2026 | Thilo Prothmann (Sprecher), Jenaer Philharmonie | Magdalena Klein | Jena (Volksbad) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La finta giardiniera | 24.03.2026 | Chloé Dufresne, Regie: Julie Delille | Paris (Opéra National) | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 27.03.2026 | David Behnke, Regie: Mascha Pörzgen | Greifswald (Stadthalle) | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Belshazzar | 28.03.2026 | George Petrou, Regie: Herbert Fritsch | Berlin (Komische Oper) | Premiere | |
| Claudio | Monteverdi | L'Incoronazione di Poppea | 28.03.2026 | Sebastiaan Eben van Yperen, Regie: André Bücker | Augsburg (Martini-Park) | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | Grande messe des morts | 02.04.2026 | Helsinki Music Centre Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Nicholas Collon | Helsinki (Music Centre) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno | 07.04.2026 | Gianluca Capuano, Regie: Robert Carsen | Rom (Teatro Costanzi) | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | The Piano Concerto (Gran Toccata) | 10.04.2026 | Orli Shaham (Klavier), National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra | David Robertson | Kaohsiung (Weiwuying International Music Festival) | Taiwanesische Erstaufführung |
| Engelbert | Humperdinck | Königskinder | 11.04.2026 | Jochem Hochstenbach, Regie: Eike Ecker | Trier | Premiere | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Castor et Pollux | 11.04.2026 | Bernhard Forck, Regie: Nanine Linning | Graz | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 16.04.2026 | Gewandhausorchester | Herbert Blomstedt | Leipzig (Gewandhaus) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Le réseau des reprises pour grand ensemble | 16.04.2026 | Weiwuying Contemporary Music Ensemble | Jean-Philippe Wurtz | Kaohsiung (Weiwuying International Music Festival) | Taiwanesische Erstaufführung |
| Matthias | Pintscher | Transir | 17.04.2026 | Emmanuel Pahud (Flöte), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Matthias Pintscher | Paris (Maison de la Radio et de la Musique) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 17.04.2026 | Federico Maria Sardelli, Regie: Mario Martone | Cagliari | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Messiah | 17.04.2026 | Patrick Summers, Regie: Robert Wilson | Houston (Wortham Theatre) | Premiere | |
| L’ubica | Cekovska | Dorian Gray | 18.04.2026 | Dieter Klug, Regie: Heiko Henschel | Annaberg-Buchholz | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | pRESTo sOSTINAto for ensemble | 18.04.2026 | Weiwuying Contemporary Music Ensemble | Jean-Philippe Wurtz | Kaohsiung (Weiwuying International Music Festival) | Taiwanesische Erstaufführung |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orphée et Euridice | 22.04.2026 | Nicole Paiement, Regie: Amanda Testini | Victoria (Pacific Opera) | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | Piano Concerto No. 2 | 24.04.2026 | Francesco Piemontesi (Klavier), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks | Enno Poppe | München (Residenz) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 24.04.2026 | Emily Senturia, Regie: Haley Stamats | Madison (Overture Hall) | Premiere | |
| Claudio | Monteverdi | L’incoronazione di Poppea | 26.04.2026 | Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Regie: Christoph Marthaler | Kopenhagen (Det Kongelige Teater) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 26.04.2026 | Marc Minkowski, Regie: Damiano Michieletto | Zürich | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | Studie IV für Klavier solo | 28.04.2026 | Filippo Gorini (Klavier) | Mailand (Teatro alla Scala) | Italienische Erstaufführung | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Wesendonck-Lieder | 30.04.2026 | Alicja Bukowska (Mezzosopran), Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen | Hermes Helfricht | Pirna (Marienkirche) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 01.05.2026 | Lorenzo Passerini, Regie: Nadja Loschky | Dresden | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 02.05.2026 | Yi-Chen Lin, Regie: Barbara-David Brüesch | St. Gallen | Premiere | |
| Claudio | Monteverdi | L'Orfeo | 02.05.2026 | Jörg Halubek, Regie: Markus Bothe | Schwetzingen (Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, Schlosstheater) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 7. Symphonie | 05.05.2026 | Wiener Symphoniker | Marie Jacquot | Wien (Konzerthaus) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orphée et Euridice | 05.05.2026 | Edward Ananian Cooper, Regie: Pierre-André Weitz | Limoges | Premiere | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Paride ed Helena | 07.05.2026 | Akademie für Alte Musik | Michael Hofstetter | Augsburg (Internationale Gluck-Opern-Festspiele) | konzertant, weitere Termine |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Schwanensee | 08.05.2026 | Svetoslav Borisov, Choreographie: Stefano Giannetti | Dessau | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 09.05.2026 | Julia Jones, Regie: Robert Carsen | Kopenhagen (Det Kongelige Teater) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 09.05.2026 | Gregor Bühl, Regie: Nora Krahl | Gelsenkirchen | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 10.05.2026 | Orchester Opernhaus Zürich | Yves Abel | Zürich | konzertant |
| Philipp | Maintz | maintenant. pas encore. plus jamais. zweites streichquartett | 15.05.2026 | Quator Diotima | Linz (festival 4020, Brucknerhaus) | Österr. Erstaufführung | |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Fidelio | 16.05.2026 | The Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst | Cleveland (Mandel Concert Hall) | konzertant |
| Emmanuel | Chabrier | L’Etoile | 17.05.2026 | Nicolas Kruger, Regie: Matthew Eberhardt | Eindhoven (Parktheater) | Premiere | |
| Winfried Zillig: Rosse / | Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci | 17.05.2026 | Mark Rohde, Regie: Roman Hovenbitzer | Würzburg (Theaterfabrik Blaue Halle) | Premiere | ||
| Georges | Bizet | Le Docteur Miracle | 17.05.2026 | Anton Legkii, Regie: Claudia Plaßwich | Mannheim | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 20.05.2026 | Lorenzo Passerini, Regie: Willy Decker | Neapel | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | Grande messe des morts | 22.05.2026 | Paris Opera Choeurs et Orchestre | Philippe Jordan | Paris (Philharmonie) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 22.05.2026 | Dietger Holm, Regie: Magdalena Fuchsberger | Heidelberg | Premiere | |
| Hector | Berlioz | Grande messe des morts | 22.05.2026 | Orchestre et chœur Opéra National de Paris | Philippe Jordan | Paris (Philharmonie) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 24.05.2026 | Bamberger Symphoniker | Jakub Hrusa | Bamberg (Kirche St. Michael) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 29.05.2026 | Keren Kagarlitsky, Regie: Wim Vandekeybus | Antwerpen | Premiere | |
| Frank | Martin | Messe für zwei vierstimmige Chöre a cappella | 30.05.2026 | Vocal ensembles ardent and suppléments musicaux | Patrick Secchiari, Moritz Achermann | Bern (Église francaise) | auch 31.5. |
| Bohuslav | Martinu | Zweimal Alexander | 02.06.2026 | Irene Delgado-Jiménez, Regie: Anna Bernreitner | Wien (Theater an der Wien) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 03.06.2026 | Laurence Equilbey, Regie: Florent Siaud | Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 09.06.2026 | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset | Hampshire (The Grange Festival) | konzertant |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 12.06.2026 | Claudio Novati, Regie: Felix Schrödinger | Detmold | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno | 13.06.2026 | Simone De Felice, Regie: Katharina Kastening | Frankfurt (Bockenheimer Depot) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 17.06.2026 | Leo Mc Fall, Regie: Marie-Ève Signeyrole | Wiesbaden | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 18.06.2026 | Janis Liepins, Regie: Cordula Däuper | Mannheim | Premiere | |
| Pietro Mascagni / | Ruggero Leoncavallo | Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci | 19.06.2026 | Gábor Hontvári, Regie: Benjamin Prins | Sondershausen (Schloss) | Premiere | |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 19.06.2026 | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Domingo Hindoyan | Liverpool (Philharmonic Hall) | konzertant |
| Thomas | Adès | Klavierkonzert | 24.06.2026 | Kirill Gerstein (Klavier), Tonhalle Orchester | Thomas Adès | Zürich (Tonhalle) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 27.06.2026 | Thomas Guggeis, Regie: Andrea Moses | Berlin (Staatsoper Unter den Linden) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 04.07.2026 | Felix Pätzold, Regie: Immo Karaman | Kiel | Premiere | |
| Giselher | Klebe | Mignon | 07.07.2026 | Detmolder Kammerorchester | Stanley Dodds | Detmold (Hochschule für Musik) |
Leonore is no longer a victim. In “Fidelio schweigt” the character who was merely a lover becomes an active subject and in so doing, emancipates herself from the well-known, all-too-familiar subject matter.
Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio” is unique on the theatre stage. What had to be established for other operas in the course of their performance history was true for Fidelio from the very beginning: the opera takes place in the here and now. The contradictions of the work, which Beethoven himself battled with, still apply today: the text, the narrative style, the historical theatrical form, the characters, the spoken dialogues – all these seem to resist a contemporary treatment of the work to the present day, so some stronger leverage has to be found.
“The victim is the person who does not take the initiative”, says the composer Charlotte Seither on the guiding principle of Leonore, the protagonist in her new stage work “Fidelio schweigt” (Fidelio is silent). “Together with Hermann Schneider, I have put aside precisely what for me restricts the subject matter historically, in order to make space for what interests me – removing the pressure for women to be victims.
In my work Leonore is no longer a victim. She is no longer just a lover, no longer the adjunct of a man – she becomes an active subject who, at the end, stands above traditional role models on a level with all the other powerful characters who surround her. Hope indeed remains hollow – as it does also with Beethoven – when it is not followed by action. That alone would justify such a work as a theme. As a woman, Leonore steps out of her context and is capable of power in that she acts. Yet in so doing she remains vulnerable. Empathy and power are not ruled out if a person is really capable of action. That is what I am interested in.”
The music theatre work “Fidelio schweigt” begins at this interface with Beethoven’s original, a “dialogue opera” as the composer herself describes her music-theatrical form. The many years’ study which Beethoven himself devoted to the subject and the form is simply re-thought here, making the content itself into a transitory object: the work begins with the second act, half of the work is shortened. “Where action takes place”, says the composer, “unusual interventions also have to be made and seemingly indispensable structures overridden.” The original (Beethoven) and the interpolations (Seither) thus follow each other in a new sequence, thereby opening a separate narrative thread which refers forwards and looks back at the same time: “Form is the present”, says Charlotte Seither: “Only when we do not know whether the end conceals a new beginning, or the beginning conceals a new end will we continue to do justice to the form of opera today.”
Together with the librettist and director Hermann Schneider, the composer places the emphasis on Leonore, whose disguise as a man in “Fidelio schweigt” has become obsolete. Leonore acts, she goes into the world and shapes it. The duplicity of Fidelio – the model of assuming a male pattern of behaviour – is thus finally overcome, it is silenced. And in the rest of the narrative, the core of the plot concentrates on the four main characters, whilst subsidiary roles have been omitted. “Where action takes place, then the familiar must also be let go, one also has to be able to name truth in clear language, even if that is sometimes very direct or can be hurtful” (Charlotte Seither).
“I decided”, says the composer, “to approach Beethoven’s method of composition with a sharp dissecting knife. In so doing I left his music in the original, but made clear vertical cuts into which I inserted my own music. It was important to me that both Beethoven’s original numbers as well as my music largely sounded ‘pure’, apart from the final conclusion. I rejected quotations, the anecdotal, and any kind of historicising artistic device.”
At the end of the dialogue opera there are various overwritings, the sound levels cross out each other at ever-shorter distances. “If you like, the form of the piece is an abstract replica on the discursive thinking in Beethoven’s late works; it therefore ends in the small, the contemporary, expected by no-one, in the here and now and perhaps nevertheless in a very personal form of utopia which continues to drive me on today” (Charlotte Seither).
Stephan Steinmetz/Charlotte Seither
(from [t]akte 1/2024 – translation: Elizabeth Robinson)
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