‘Crazy masterpiece": Following the great success of the world premiere at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, Tito Ceccherini conducts Lucia Ronchetti's opera Der Doppelgänger ("The Double") at the Lucerne Festival and in further performances until January.

In April, the world premiere with the SWR Symphony Orchestra under Tito Ceccherini at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival was met with enthusiasm: ‘What you got to see and, above all, hear there is nothing less than a crazy masterpiece,’ wrote the daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz, and the theatre magazine Die Deutsche Bühne found: ‘You absolutely want to hear this music again, which is why the premiere audience applauded exuberantly and lavishly.’

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In 2019, Wergo released a portrait CD including Anssi Karttunen’s recordings of Hans Werner Henze’s English Love Songs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Oliver Knussen.

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