Gioia / Tristezza in WYLD
Music by Gustavo Strauss, Libretto and Direction by Sarah Scherer
Conducted by Raphael Schluesselberg
Performances 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 at the Grosse Probebühne of the Bayerische Staatsoper
Cover Consort 1 / Lady in Waiting 1 / Messenger 1 in the world premiere of Of One Blood by Brett Dean and Heather Betts
Directed by Claus Guth, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski
Performances 10, 14, 17, 21 May, 27, 29 June 2026
with Rupert Struber
concerts on 23 and 24 January 2026
John Cage (1912-1992): Forever and Sunsmell, for voice and percussion duo (1942)
Sara Glojnaric (*1991): Artefacts #2, für Stimme, kleines Schlagzeug und Tape (2019)
Agata Zubel (*1978): Unisono 1, for voice, percussion and computer (2003)
Krõõt-Kärt Kaev (*1992): Memory Corruption and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, for voice and percussion UA (2023/2025)
Neil Luck (*1982): Neues Werk für Stimme und Schlagwerk UA (2025)
Lena Emilia Michajłów (*2002): Neues Werk für Stimme und Schlagwerk UA (2025)
Sergej Newski (b.1972): Scene from The Relatives: Videoconference of a Crimean Family 1912–2025 (2025) for mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano
Sergej Newski: Tarussa (2020) for mezzo-soprano, piano and playback
The Engine Room at TAM
premiering a new solo voice work by Tim Cape
music by Oliver Leith
libretto by Matt Copson and Oliver Leith
directed by Anna Morrissey and Matt Copson
performances on 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31 December 2025 and 2, 3 January 2026 at the Royal Ballet and Opera Linbury Theatre
Tickets available from 2 July: Last Days
Jump-in with soloists from the BRSO for a Musica Viva performance of Widmann’s String Quartets I-V
with Korbinian Altenberger, Lorenz Chen, Benedict Hames, Jaka Stadler
conducted by Jonathan Berman
programme includes a world premiere by Arturo Fuentes
Schubert, Purcell and Faure arranged for voice and harp
Programme includes works by Jürg Frey, Francesco Filidei, Burkhard Stangl, Bernhard Lang and Bernhard Gander
Music by Marc Sinan
Performances on 26 and 27 August: kunstfest-weimar.de/festival/programm/details/neofilia-von-der-liebe-zum-fremden
Thea in the world premiere of Frühlings Erwachen
Inszenierung: Neco Çelik
Bühne: Alexander Wolf
Video: Jan Speckenbach
Dramaturgie: Angela Beuerle
Komponist: Ludger Vollmer
Text: Martin G. Berger
Performances 19, 21, 22 June 2025
Thomas Kessler – IS IT? für Saxophon und Stimme
Arsalan Abedian – ICH WARD MEIN LIED für Stimme, Tonband und Elektronik
Jannik Giger – I SING für Stimme, Saxophon und Elektronik (Uraufführung)
Mimi Doulton, Stimme; Arsalan Abedian, Elektronik
FX Kollektiv: Alejandro Olivàn López, Saxophon; Carlos Gil-Gonzalo, Klavier und Elektronik
At L’Abbaye, Lac du joux
Mädchen in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Auftieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Performances from 16 April to 9 May 2025
Covering the role of Aquella Muchacham in the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s Das grosse Feuer.
Musikalische Leitung Beat Furrer
Inszenierung Tatjana Gürbaca
Performances 23, 25, 28, 30 March, 4, 6, 11 April
Conducted by Dominic Ellis-Peckham
Part of the Walter Levin Tage at the Musikhochschule in Basel
conducted by Joerg Widmann
Johannes Boris Borowski (*1979) Dreh dich nicht um (2022) UA
Rolf Riehm (*1937) Framing Schwarze Pappeln Persephone (2020)
Elias Jurgschat (*1995) so-sein (II) (2020/24) UA
Kate Soper (*1981) Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say (2010/11)
Johannes Boris Borowski (*1979) Dreh dich nicht um (2022) UA
Rolf Riehm (*1937) Framing Schwarze Pappeln Persephone (2020)
Elias Jurgschat (*1995) so-sein (II) (2020/24) UA
Kate Soper (*1981) Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say (2010/11)
Unfortunately Mimi has had to withdraw from this event due to a respiratory infection. Plus Minus Ensemble and Arco will still be performing at Cafe Oto this evening.
Lutoslawski: Silesian Triptych and Lacrimosa
conducted by William Carslake
Sergej Newski: „Cansìon“ nach den Gedichten aus dem Buch „La nuova Gioventù“ von Pier Paolo Pasolini für Sopran, Saxophon und Ensemble (2019)
Claude Vivier: „Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire“ für Sopran und Ensemble (1982)
œsterreichisches ensemble fuer neue musik
Conducted by Johannes Kalitzke.
Vivier Trois Airs pour un Opera Imaginaire with Nouvel Ensemble Modern in Montreal
Conducted by Jean-Michaël Lavoie
‘Death and Paradise’
A Kafka-inspired programme featuring Dvorak, Janacek, Kapralova, Mahler and Brahms
Music for voice and harp from the 11th to the 20th century with Héloïse Carlean-Jones (harp)
Songs by Faure, Ravel, L. Boulanger, and Chaminade alongside 11th century troubadour song, arranged for voice and harp. Performed by Mimi Doulton and Héloïse Carlean-Jones.
Sie in the Austrian premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’ Liebesgesang.
Musical direction: Stefan Politzka
Stage direction: Marcos Darbyshire
Performances 13, 15, 20, 26, 29 September, and 12, 16, 25 October
At Viitasaari Time of Music Festival, Finland
Finalist in the Southbank Sinfonia’s biennial competition for orchestral song.
Repertoire TBC.
Mädchen in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Auftieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Performances on 11, 15, 26, 28 May, 1, 8, 11, 29 June
Conducted by Cornelius Meister, directed by Ulrike Schwab
with pianist Dylan Perez.
Performing highlights from Messiaen‘s Chants de terre et de ciel and Copland‘s 12 Emily Dickinson Songs, alongside new Dickinson settings by Alison Bauld.
We are grateful to the Vaughan Williams Foundation and the Marchus Trust for their support of this new work by Alison Bauld.
Following their successful ensemble debut at Spitalfields Festival, pianist Ben Smith and soprano Mimi Doulton bring a musical miscellanea to the University of Southampton. The wry humour of Michael Finnissy and Matthew Shlomowitz features alongside mysterious and intimate works by Nordic composers Rasmus Zwicki and Kaija Saariaho, woven together with personal favourites from their voice and piano repertoire.
