From the 31 October Pierre Bleuse conducts six performances of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Mozart and Salieri at the Opéra de Lyon in a production by Jean Lacornerie. The opera was written in 1898 after the drama of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, which is based on the legend that Salieri poisoned Mozart....

After an intensive development process with the Nobel prize-winning writer Elfriede Jelinek and director Nicolas Stemann, Philippe Manoury’s music theatre work Kein Licht was premiered as part of the Ruhrtriennale in August. From the 18 October, it will be presented at the Opéra Comique in Paris and broadcast live on Arte on 21 October....

The Wiener Symphoniker will give the Austrian premiere of Johannes Maria Staud’s new orchestral work Stromab on 25 October under François-Xavier Roth. Inspired by Algernon Blackwood’s short story The Willows, the work was premiered in September by the Royal Danish Orchestra, and will also be performed in January by the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst in venues including the Carnegie Hall....

Guardian is the title of Chaya Czernowin’s cello concerto written for soloist Séverine Ballon. The work finds it premiere on 22 October as part of the closing concert of the Donaueschingen Festival, performed by the SWR Symphony Orchestra under Pablo Rus Broseta....

Antje Weithaas has earned high critical praise for her newly-released recording, the final CD in her Bach-Ysäye trilogy. “The Berlin-based violinist and professor bows the strings with a robustness, strength and drive that leaves you speechless” commented the Tagesspiegel, whilst the Spiegel Online remarked on the recording’s “clarity and, above all, its gorgeously light elegance.”...

We are delighted to be working with three exciting new artists. The Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen impresses with her natural authority and infectious enthusiasm as well as with her elegant and nuanced technique. In the coming season the former student of Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam will give her debuts with the Finnish Radio Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic....

Yeree Suh delights audiences and critics with her radiant yet nuanced soprano voice, and has become internationally renowned as an interpreter of 17th and 18th century repertoire as well as of contemporary music. In September she opened the season with Toshio Hosokawa’s Klage under Shiyeon Sung at the Musikfest Berlin....

Valentin Uryupin, winner of the 8th International Conductor’s Competition Sir George Solti 2017, is an exceptional talent: not only is he a celebrated conductor, but as a clarinettist he has won more than 20 international competitions and performed worldwide. At the beginning of this season he wowed audiences at five sold-out concerts during a Chinese tour with the State Academy Orchestra ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’....

From 21 October Titus Engel will conduct one of the most successful operas in musical history, Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. At the Theater Basel, the opera will be presented in a new production by Daniel Kramer, which will be performed until February 2018....

Christoph Prégardien will tour with Jos van Immerseel and his ensemble Anima Eterna Brugge to Belgium, the Netherlands and France from 20 October until 12 November. He will perform extracts from Monteverdi’s operas Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria and L’Orfeo together with his son, tenor Julian Prégardien....

The Gringolts Quartet and soprano Malin Hartelius have been awarded the coveted Diapason d’Or for their recording of Schoenberg’s String Quartets Nos. 2 and 4. “The Gringolts Quartet did justice to this fascinating musical journey, playing with an almost pitch-perfect, poetic power,” wrote the Diapason magazine....

Congratulations to Chaya Czernowin: her opera Infinite Now is “Premiere of the Year 2017”, according to the Opernwelt magazine’s critics poll. After performances in Ghent and Antwerp in June 2017, the work was shown under the direction of Titus Engel in Mannheim and at the Philharmonie de Paris....