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+++ Tehila Nini Goldstein will perform two concerts in Berlin: As part of the festival CLANG CUT BOOK which will take place both in Berlin and Buenos Aires, the mezzo-soprano will perform music by Walter Zimmermann and other composers together with the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin on 21 and 22 June.
+++ Alejo Pérez will conduct anniversary concert for Teresa Berganza at the Teatro Real: On 21 June, the conductor will lead a gala concert paying homage to the famous mezzo-soprano who turned 80 in March. The Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid alongside several guests will perform, amongst other pieces, arias by Mozart, Rossini and de Falla.
+++ Toshio Hosokawa's opera 'Hanjo' in Berlin: On 22, 24 and 30 June, the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater will present the opera in a production which was stage directed by Calixto Bieito and which had received enthusiastic reviews at the RuhrTriennale 2011.
+++ Anssi Karttunen is new Artistic Director of Musica nova Helsinki: We are delighted to announce that the cellist has been appointed as Artistic Director of Finland‘s largest festival for contemporary music. A passionate advocate for new music, the cellist premiered more than 130 works and was Artistic Director of the Helsinki Biennial, the predecessor of Musica nova, in 1995. The festival's next edition will take place in 2015.
+++ Caroline Stein will perform Wagner at the Opéra Bastille: As Woglinde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the soprano will sing in seven performances between 21 May and 16 June and again on 26 June. On 18 June, she will perform in Das Rheingold. Philippe Jordan will conduct the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris for the productions which were stage directed by Günter Krämer.
+++ 90th anniversary of György Ligeti: On 28 May, György Ligeti, who died in Vienna in 2006, would have turned 90 years old. In celebration of this anniversary, numerous concerts as well as a CD recording of György Ligeti's organ works by Dominik Susteck make the composer come alive again in his music.
+++ Steven Sloane at the Frankfurt Opera: The Oper Frankfurt will present Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in combination with Béla Bartók's Herzog Blaubarts Burg in a production stage directed by Barrie Kosky. Steven Sloane will conduct four performances between 25 May and 20 June.
+++ Georg Friedrich Haas will become Professor at New York's Columbia University: In September, the composer will join Columbia University's composition faculty as a full-time tenured professor, assuming the post previously held by Tristan Murail.
+++ Trio Mediaeval with the 'Worcester Ladymass' in Ghent, Cremona, Ettiswill und Nuremberg: In May and June, the singers will be on tour with their program A Worcester Ladymass, visiting Ghent (16/5), Cremona (19/5), Ettiswil (2/6) and Nuremberg (25/6).
+++ Press reviews temporarily not available on our website: Several newspaper publishers are currently filing law suits against the use of quotations from their media, including press reviews. Until this matter is legally clarified, we feel impelled to take down all reviews of our artists and projects from our website. We hope that this issue will soon be resolved, and that we can again include music critiques on our site as usual.