April

Raskatov’s successfully opera “A Dog’s Heart” resumed at the DNO Amsterdam
Alexander Raskatov’s opera “A Dog’s Heart” will be resumed on 22 April 2017 at the ‘De Nationale Opera’ (DNO – formerly: Nederlandse Opera) in Amsterdam. Six more performances are scheduled ...

World Premiere of Lera Auerbach’s “A Twofold Dream” after Mozart
It is one of three double concertos from the pen of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and, moreover, by far the most popular one. The Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra in C Major, K.V. 299 was composed ...

Auerbach’s “72 Angels. In splendore lucis” for the First Time in Estonia
During the course of a portrait concert for Lera Auerbach at the Jaani Church in Tartu, her work “72 Angels. In splendore lucis” for choir and saxophone quartet (completed in 2016) will be...

Yevgeni Yevtushenko, the Poet of of “Babi Yar”, Died on 1 April 2017
The Russian poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko is dead. The poet and author, frequently designated the “voice of de-Stalinisation” and who most recently lived in Tulsa,  Oklahoma (USA), died ...

Osmo Tapio Räihälä: New Piano Trio “Temptations” Given World Premiere
Maria Puusaari (violin), Eeva Rysä (violoncello) and Sonja Fräki (piano) will perform the world premiere of a new piano trio by the Finnish composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä on ...

Dejan Lazic: “Mozart and Salieri”
In his new work “Mozart and Salieri”, commissioned jointly by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Croatian composer Dejan Lazić comes to ...

“Si dolce è’l tormento” by Moritz Eggert at the Stadttheater Gießen
The world premiere of Moritz Eggert’s “Si dolce è’l tormento” for baritone and orchestra, based on the madrigal of the same name by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), will ...

World Premiere: “NASIMI PASSION” by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh in Amsterdam
On 7 April 2017 the baritone Evez Abdulla, the Groot Omroepkoor and the Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam under the direction of Martyn Brabbins will present the world premiere of ...