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Schott/EAM Season Preview

Aug. 30, 2012

Thomas Adès

  • The Metropolitan Opera curtain rises on Thomas Adès’ The Tempest on October 23 with performances through November 12 in a new production by Robert Lepage. www.metoperafamily.org
  • Powder Her Face returns to the site of its New York premiere with New York City Opera's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, February 15 through 23, 2013, directed by Jay Scheib. www.nycopera.com
  • Powder Her Face also graces the stage of the Opera Company of Philadelphia, June 7, 9 and 12, 2013. www.operaphila.org.


Benjamin Britten

  • The new chamber arrangement by David Matthews of Owen Wingrave sees its US premiere production, March 13 through 17, presented by the Curtis Opera Theatre in conjunction with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Kimmel Center Presents. 2013 marks the Britten Centenary year. www.operaphila.org and www.brittenpears.org


Gavin Bryars

  • Long Beach Opera presents the US premiere of Bryars’ ode to aquatic exploration The Paper Nautilus at the Aquarium of the Pacific, September 7-8, directed and conducted by Andreas Mitisek. www.longbeachopera.org


Chaya Czernowin

  • Gradual Edge for organ and cello premieres in Denmark on September 17 and embarks on a tour of over 24 performances on three continents.
  • Slow Summer Stay I (lakes) debuts April 1, 2013 with San Francisco Chamber Players and Slow Summer Stay II (streams) premieres May 3, a commission from the Library of Congress Orchestra.
  • Czernowin is Artist-in-Residence at the 2013 Lucerne Festival, where she sees the premiere of At the fringe of your gaze, written for the Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim, August 18, 2013.
  • The Dal Niente Ensemble presents a Czernowin portrait concert in Chicago at the Gottlieb Hall at the Merit School of Music, November 16. 


Peter Eötvös

  • Hungarian composer and conductor Peter Eötvös visits the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Composer in Residence, January 15-20. The week-long residency includes the Green Umbrella staging of his opera Angels in America, January 15, and the world premiere of DoReMi, his new concerto for violin and orchestra, featuring Midori as soloist on January 18, 2013. Both performances will be conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. www.laphil.com


Morton Feldman

  • Petr Kotik leads the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra through the US premieres of Morton Feldman’s magnificent Flute and Orchestra and Violin and Orchestra. www.semensemble.org


George Gershwin

  • There's no shortage of Gershwin performaces during the 2012/13 concert season, from Kitchener-Waterloo to Wichita, Mobile to Atlantic City, Milwaukee to Saskatoon, the Boston Conservatory of Music, Mississippi State University and many more. www.schott-music.com
  • The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra presents Here to Stay: The Gershwin Concert Experience on October 6, marking just the most recent in a fast growing list of productions nationwide of this captivating and unique showcase of the Gershwin legacy. www.lpomusic.com


Alexander Goehr

  • Goehr celebrated his 80th birthday on August 10, and the birthday celebrations continue with the world premiere of To These Dark Steps/the Fathers are Watching on September 30 at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Center with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Oliver Knussen. www.bcmg.org.uk and www.eamdc.com


Howard Goodall

  • A new album of Goodall’s music will be released on Decca in January, 2013, featuring his new oratorio Every Purpose Under the Heaven performed by American tenor Noah Stewart, soprano Laura Wright and Enchanted Voices with Lincoln Minster School.


Georg Friedrich Haas

  • The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs the US premiere of Haas’ Remix on February 25 on the CSO’s MusicNow series.
  • Northeastern University presents the US premiere of Haas’ …und…, for chamber ensemble of 18 players and electronics, on November 17 at Boston’s Fenway Center.
  • Chicago-based new music powerhouse Dal Niente presents multiple performances of the music of Haas, beginning with the Austrian composer's Trois Hommages on their concert Hommage to Ligeti, Hauer and Reich on February 23. Following shortly after is a highly anticipated performance of Haas’ In Vain on February 28, a concert dubbed a cornerstone of the 2012/13 season by the ensemble. www.dalniente.com


Cristobal Halffter

  • On January 13, Halffter’s In tempore belli premieres with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Georg Fritsch. www.theater-kiel.de


Oliver Knussen

  • The Los Angeles Philharmonic presents a new production of Knussen’s one-act opera Where the Wild Things Are, October 11-14, 2012, directed by and featuring animated backgrounds by Netia Jones and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. www.laphil.com
  • Oliver Knussen will have a new work premiered with The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Carnegie Hall, February 23. www.philorch.org


Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  • The Amphion Quintet brings Korngold’s Piano Quintet to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in October, 2012. www.chambermusicsociety.org


Gustav Mahler

  • The new edition of Symphony No. 2 completed by Gilbert Kaplan debuts with the Wiener Singakademie, Vienna Chamber Orchestra and soloists Marlis Petersen and Janina Baechle led by Mr. Kaplan on February 17, 2013. www.kammerorchester.com


Matthias Pintscher

  • Pintscher’s new work, Chute d’Etoiles, a Roche Commission, arrives in the US with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst for its US premiere at Severance Hall, November 8, 2012. The New York debut follows at Carnegie Hall, November 13. www.clevelandorchestra.com and www.carnegiehall.org
  • The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra premieres Pintscher’s Bereshit in Saint Paul conducted by the composer, May 24 and 25. www.thespco.org
  • The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) presents a Matthias Pintscher Portrait concert on December 13 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. www.iceorg.org
  • Pintscher leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a performance of towards Osiris, October 8, 2012. www.atlantasymphony.org
  • Verzeichnete Spur, for ensemble and live electronics, sees a performance with Pintscher and the Curtis Orchestra on December 7, 2012.
  • The composer's new chamber work Uriel for cello and piano debuts in January, 2013 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt with Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan. www.alteoper.de


Gabriel Prokofiev

  • Faber has announced a new publishing agreement with Prokofiev, in which the publisher will administer all of the composer’s works. His Concerto for Bass Drum & Orchestra recently premiered at Princeton University, and his notorious Concerto for Turntables & Orchestra is to be choreographed by Karole Armitage this season, January 31 through February 2 and February 5 through 9, 2013. www.newyorklivearts.org


Wolfgang Rihm


David Sawer

  • On February 15, Sawer’s new work for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra Flesh and Blood premieres with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov at the Barbican in London.
  • George Benjamin and The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group premiere Sawer’s Rumpelstiltskin Suite for 13 players at London’s Wigmore Hall, April 6, 2013. www.bcmg.org.uk


Richard Wagner 200

  • Wagner’s masterpiece The Flying Dutchman sees its US premiere in the 1841 Edition on April 19 at Boston Lyric Opera conducted by David Angus and directed by Michael Cavanagh. The performance marks a key date in the year-long celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. www.blo.org


Huw Watkins

  • Watkins’ new opera In the Locked Room, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival on August 30, embarks on a UK tour of 15 performances. www.eif.co.uk


Kurt Weill

  • Street Scene runs September 22 – December 15 at Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.Gil Mehmert, director; Heiko Mathias Förster, conductor. www.musiktheater-im-revier.de
  • Landestheater Linz, Austria, unveils two new dance works, pairing Zaubernacht with The Seven Deadly Sins, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies and directed/choreographed by Jochen Ulrich. Featuring Marianne Faithfull as Anna I. October 13 January 30. www.landestheater-linz.at
  • Komische Oper Berlin presents “Weill Week” January 18-24, featuring performances of Der Kuhhandel (Anthony Hermus, cond.; Barrie Kosky, dir.), Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Stefan Blunier, cond.; Andreas Homoki, dir.), and Die sieben Todsünden (Kristiina Poska, cond.; Barrie Kosky, dir.). www.komische-oper-berlin.de
  • The critically acclaimed Young Vic/Opera Group production of Street Scene tours to Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, January 25-31, and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, March 1-5. John Fulljames, director; Tim Murray, conductor. www.chatelet-theatre.com
  • The London Philharmonic presents Die Dreigroschenoper in concert at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, on February 28 and in London at Royal Festival Hall on Weill’s birthday, March 2. Vladimir Jurowski, conductor; Ted Huffman, director. www.lpo.co.uk
  • A new oratorio version of Der Weg der Verheissung premieres at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, Germany, conducted by Antony Hermus. February 28 and March 1. www.anhaltisches-theater.de


Jörg Widmann

  • The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst present the US premiere of Widmann’s 2003 piece Lied on March 2 at Carnegie Hall. www.carnegiehall.org
  • The Bavarian State Opera presents the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Babylon, conducted by Kent Nagano with production by Carlus Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus on October 27 in Munich. www.bayerische.staatsoper.de


Frank Zappa

  • Norway’s BIT20 ensemble perform Zappa’s The Perfect Stranger, Dupree’s Paradise, Peaches En Regalia, and Big Swifty on February 16, 2013.  www.bit20ensemble.no.
  • The new album from the Royal Academy of Music's Manson Ensemble, Zappa, is available now on Academy Chimes. The recording was made in 2010 under the direction of Franck Ollu and features new transcriptions of Zappa's Peaches en Regalia, Dupree's Paradise, The Black Page No. 2, The Perfect Stranger, and G-Spot Tornado. more info here

Alexander Zemlinsky

  • The new critical edition of Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid completed by Antony Beaumont sees its world premiere with the Dresdener Philharmonie under Markus Poschner in Dresden, January 27, 2013. www.dresdnerphilharmonie.de

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