Andreas Scholl and his wife, pianist Tamar Halperin, have been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. The German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier bestowed Germany’s highest decoration on them in a ceremony at Bellevue Castle in Berlin on 1st October. The medal honours exceptional civic engagement and social and cultural merit.

Sergei Babayan continues his breathtaking exploration of the idea of melody in his monumental SONGS programme, amazing his audiences worldwide. His recent performance of the programme at La Grange aux pianos in the French Indre region had critics rave and the audience beg for more. Read the full review from La Nouvelle République here:

Conductor Alexander Briger and his Australian World Orchestra and soprano Sarah Traubel were rewarded with immediate standing ovations after both performances of their extraordinary 2025 “Mahlerfest” programme of Symphonies no. 4 and 5 by Gustav Mahler in a single night, in concerts at the Melbourne Arts Centre and the Sydney Opera House.

Congratulations Felix Krieger for the phenomenal success of his return to Semperoper Dresden, where the Staatskapelle and wonderful cast performed under his baton a magnificent Magic Flute and earned a standing ovation from the sold-out house. Bravi tutti, bravo Felix Krieger!

Mezzo-soprano Anna Werle had an especially successful debut at Arena di Verona: A rare honour for a German vocal artist, Anna sang the role of Fenena in Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco, a cornerstone of Italian repertoire at one of the world’s most iconic opera venues. The critics’ response was unanimous.

Anaëlle Tourret was invited to appear at Pärnu Music Festival with Paavo Järvi conducting the festival orchestra. Luminous summer musical energies, shared with wonderful partners, further included appearances at Salon-de-Provence with violinist Brieuc Vourch, and collaborations with Eric Le Sage, …

Sarah Traubel sang a recital at Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth featuring Wagner's Wesendonck Songs as well as Mahler's Rückert Songs and songs by Franz Liszt and Richard Strauss, with Günther Albers on the master's very own New York Steinway grand piano.

Débora Waldman conducted her Orchestre National Avignon-Provence at last weekend’s performances of the famous International Piano Festival of La Roque d’Anthéron. In an all Beethoven programme at the legendary open-air Parc du Château de Florans, featuring Alexander Malofeev as soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 5.

"Sublime!" (The Straits Times) - What an incredible performance by Andreas Scholl and Sarah Traubel with the amazing Red Dot Baroque at Singapore's Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay!

Yevgeny Sudbin’s BIS Records recording of the First Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky has been selected by Gramophone as one of the Top 50 Greatest Tchaikovsky Recordings.

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