What a return! Andreas Scholl, the most admired performing artist from Germany’s Rheingau region, gave a recital at the Rheingau Music Festival together with his wife, Israeli pianist Tamar Halperin. At the Unionskirche of Idstein, they presented a programme of English folksongs and related works

Standing Ovations concluded the gala night conducted by Salvatore Percacciolo at Teatro Massimo in Palermo. The programme of some of the most beautiful overtures, arias and duets by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and others was an overwhelming success.

Sergei Prokofiev’s L’Amour des trois oranges has been enthusiastically received at the Korea National Opera in its latest production staged by Lorenzo Fioroni, with Felix Krieger conducting the fantastic Korean National Symphony Orchestra at the sold-out Seoul Arts Center

Not Mahler but Mendelssohn: Sarah Traubel sang the soprano solo in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang” at the Berlin Philharmonie, with Simon Halsey conducting the Choralspace Festival Orchestra and Chorus.

Andreas Scholl, “the world’s most cultured counter-tenor voice” (The Times), has joined a staged production of Händel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto led by his long-time musical partner and friend Roman Válek and his award-winning Czech Ensemble Baroque, at the Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava and Znojmo Festival.

“I have sung the soprano solo in Mahler 4 in concerts and on tour with orchestras in Europe and in America and believe that as a native German speaker, I have the ambition to share with the audience the unique connection between Mahler’s immensely beautiful, highly characteristic music and this seemingly simple poem of German romanticism about the ‘heavenly life’ which Mahler used.”

Conductor Scott Yoo led an extraordinary performance of the ballet music for Daphnis et Chloé (Suite No. 2) by Ravel, with the orchestra Solistas de América in Guadalajara, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel, at Sala Plácido Domingo in Guadalajara.

Leading Italian music magazine MUSICA has added its voice to the chorus of praise for Anaëlle Tourret’s latest CD release “Perspectives Concertantes”.

On 19 July 2025, Thomas E. Bauer, international baritone and director of the award-winning Konzerthaus Blaibach, was the host of yet another coup at his 200-seat concert hall in the midst of the Bavarian Forest: The small stage saw the performance of Mozart’s Magic Flute, in a concert version arranged for the purpose by Rüdiger Lotter.

The new chamber recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, conducted by Roberto Beltrán-Zavala, is now available worldwide. Recorded live in The Netherlands with The re:orchestra of Rotterdam, this deeply moving interpretation invites listeners into the fragile intimacy of one of Mahler’s final masterpieces

Congratulations Bogdan Dugalic: The young pianist from Belgrade won the First Prize of the 2025 Málaga International Piano Competition. The jury was presided by Sergei Babayan and gave the Mozarteum student of Pavel Gililov the latest in his many prizes after a remarkable performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in the final round. Congratulations also to Second Prize winner Elžbieta Liepa Dvarionaité Third Prize winner Nikita Lukinov.

“Conducted with the precision of a goldsmith by French conductor Nicolas André, the orchestra gave a finesse of great clarity to the piece [Das Lied von der Erde] whose vibrant simplicity was exalted.” (Concertclassic): With energy and curiosity, Nicolas André traces a path strewn with clear interpretations, combining precision and vitality. 

A Symphony of a Thousand for Roberto Beltrán Zavala: The team at Felsner Artists says Happy Birthday Maestro, with a video from one of the biggest moments in the life of any conductor, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 conducted by the Mahler Award winner Roberto Beltrán.

On 28 June 2025, Salvatore Percacciolo will return to Palermo’s Teatro Massimo to conduct a concert with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo and soloists Ilaria Monteverdi and Andrea Piazza, featuring some of the most beautiful overtures and scenes from operas by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi.

Sergei Babayan, 2025 jury president of the City of Málaga International Piano Competition, played his SONGS recital programme at the iconic Calatrava-designed Auditorio de Tenerife and at the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga ahead of the first round of the prestigious competition. The Spanish press raved at the mesmerizing artistry of the American piano master

On 18 May, the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico-City hosted an unforgettable performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, presented as part of the family programme "Báilame un cuento." Roberto Beltrán Zavala, music director of Palermo Classica and the former chief conductor of the Festival Cervantino, Latin America’s leading music festival, conducted the production.

In July 2025 Sergei Babayan will return to the Verbier Festival, for three performances not to be missed. On 19 July, he will play his groundbreaking solo recital programme simply called SONGS, a journey through the history of melody in Western music.

Soprano Ana Naqe received rave reviews for her stunning performance in the title role of Harold Noben’s new opera Bovary at Brussels’ La Monnaie. The Albanian-Belgian singer, who had repeatedly appeared at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Bregenzer Festspiele, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent, embodied the lead role in a piece devoted to the life story of Flaubert’s Emma Bovary, from the young bride’s dreams to her tragic end.

On 30 May, French label Aparté will release a remarkable new recording of the Symphony no. 14 by Dmitri Shostakovich, featuring soprano Sarah Traubel and bass Roman Lyulkin, with Vahan Mardirossian conducting the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.

Débora Waldman wird ab sofort von Felsner Artists vertreten. Die erste Frau auf dem Chefposten eines französischen Staatsorchesters überhaupt ist eine echte Weltbürgerin: In São Paulo geboren, wuchs sie in einem israelischen Kibbuz auf und zog mit vierzehn Jahren von dort zum Musikstudium nach Buenos Aires. 2006 wurde sie Assistentin von Kurt Masur am Orchestre National de France.