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Anu Komsi: BBC Proms in Bristol
On 9 August 2026, the soprano Anu Komsi and the violinist Sakari Oramo join forces to perform György Kurtág's seminal work Kafka-Fragments op. 24 for a concert at the BBC Proms at the Lantern Hall Bristol. The musical duo and married couple have performed the Kafka-Fragments already many times and even recorded them on CD. Only last summer, they presented this work at the Aldeburgh Festival. The Times once raved about Anu’s interpretation: Komsi produced something more powerful, a performance in which the protagonist’s effort to contain her madness was palpable.
(published on 14 July 2026)
Lavinia Dames: Festival summer in Bayreuth
On 31 July 2026 and 10/20/25 August 2026 the soprano Lavinia Dames will return as 1. Knappe/Zaubermädchen in RichardWagner‘s Parsifal to the Bayreuth Festival. Already in the past two summers, Lavinia performed in this production of the stage director Jay Scheib. Pablo Heras-Casado will lead the Festspielorchester and the Festspielchor. Andreas Schager will sing the role of Parsifal, Tobias Kehrer the role of Titurel, Jordan Shanahan the role of Klingsor, Miina-Liisa Värelä the role of Kundry, Michael Volle the role of Amfortas and Georg Zeppenfeld the role of Gurnemanz. The set has been designed by Mimi Lien and the costumes by Meentje Nielsen.
(published on 6 July 2026)
Anna-Lena Elbert: Debut Verbier Festival
On 23 July 2026 the soprano Anna-Lena Elbert will make her debut at the renowned Verbier Festival at La Chapelle de Verbier-Village with the duo recital INWEAVE together with cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. In this outstanding programme, the duo presents intertwined repertoire spanning seven centuries: Guillaume de Machaut’s Je ne cuit pas qu’oncques à creature, Dame, se vous m’estes lointeinne, John Dowland’s Come Again, Tobias Hume’s Loves Farewell, Fain Would I Change That Note, Tickle Me Quickly, Benjamin Britten’s Suite for Cello solo No. 3 Op. 87 and György Kurtag’s excerpts from his József Attila-Fragments.
(published on 1 July 2026)
H. Falk & S. Sun: summer night with MKO
On 11 July 2026, the soprano Sarah Maria Sun and the baritone Holger Falk will present a Chamber Music Night at the Museum Villa Stuck Munich together with the Munich Chamber Orchestra (MKO), Alexander Lonquich (piano), Enrico Onofri (violine) and Bas Wiegers (violine). The colourful programme of this long summer evening will fill the museum’s space and garden. The MKO musicians will meet up in different chamber music constellations, reaching from duo to a bigger ensemble. Sarah Maria Sun will sing Egon Wellesz‘ Sonnets from the Portuguese for soprano and string quartet Op. 52 as well as in duo with Bas Wiegers György Kurtág’s Kafka-Fragments Op.24. Holger Falk will interpret Hanns Eisler‘s Hölderlin-Fragments for voice and chamber ensemble (arrangement: Gerhard Müller-Hornbach) and Charles Ives‘ Rememberance. Further works by Joseph Haydn, Dmitri Shostakovich, Miklós Rózsa, Grażyna Bacewicz, Béla Bartók, Caroline Shaw, Claude Debussy, W. A. Mozart and other composers will complete the programme. Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, this summer concert format will now return to the recently reopened Villa Stuck.
(published on 23 June 2026)
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