January 2021

World premiere in China: “Ban Zhu /Gui No. 2” for bamboo flute orchestra by Xiaoyong Chen
While concert life has come to a virtual standstill in Europe and many other parts of the world, in the meantime it has been able to stabilise again in China.

Marius Felix Lange's opera “Snow Queen” receives its premiere in Japan
Marius Felix Lange's family operas, such as “Snow White”, “The Canterville Ghost” and “The Snow Queen”, are performed all over the world. Now, on 17 January 2021, even the Japanese premiere of...

Lera Auerbach’s string symphony “Memoria de la luz” as video streamed from Erie (Pennsylvania)
The Erie Philharmonic, conducted by Daniel Meyer, recorded Lera Auerbach’s string symphony “Memoria de la luz” in December 2020. This recording will be available as a video stream...

Remembering Ulrich Leyendecker on his 75th birthday
On 29 January this year, composer Ulrich Leyendecker, who died in Bonn on 29 November 2018, would have turned 75.

A stream of Grigori Frid’s “The Diary of Anne Frank” on German Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
The Bernburg Theatre will perform the premiere of Grigori Frid’s mono opera “The Diary of Anne Frank” planned for 27 January 2021, German Holocaust Remembrance Day.