INDUSTRY NEWS
May 2025

The monthly update on business news for professionals in the performing arts and audiovisual industries:
posting new productions, industry previews, calls, deadlines or job ads while connecting coproduction partners, vendors and buyers. Brought to you by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre, the international business network supporting performing arts through audiovisual media.


NEWS

Classical:Next Film Showcases

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

The IMZ has partnered with Classical:NEXT to create the Film Showcases, which give filmmakers the opportunity to present their work and foster new connections between the classical music and film industries.

Content.Agent Launches Free Trial Offer for IMZ Members

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Exclusive offer for IMZ Members. Sign up for Content.Agent by 31 May and enjoy one full month of access – absolutely free.

YUM! Wins Fedora Digital Prize 2025

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Yum!, a production by the Austrian company Studio M.A.R.S, was awarded the FEDORA Digital Prize 2025 at the ceremony held on 26 April at the Wiener Staatsoper.

NEW PRODUCTIONS

Beethoven's Complete Violin Sonatas I-III

Deutsche Grammophon GmbH

Fresh from a critically-acclaimed recording, Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon present the cycle over the course of three concerts at Pierre Boulez Saal.

Cats on Trees with Toulouse Chamber Orchestra

Auditorium Films

Cats on Trees celebrate 10 years with a unique orchestral concert in Toulouse, featuring Charlie Winston & Lubiana.

Donizetti: The Daughter of the Regiment

Auditorium Films

Donizetti’s patriotic French opera returns in 2025, with Gwendoline Blondeel and Patrick Kabongo at the Royal Opera House.

Il Volo in Agrigento

C Major Entertainment

Il Volo performs in the Valle dei Templi, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hellenic architecture in Sicily.

Mahler Festival: Mäkelä & Concertgebouw Orchestra

C Major Entertainment

Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mahler's Symphonies 1 and 8 in occasion of the 2025 Mahler Festival, a Royal Concertgebouw's tribute to the composer.

MMM | Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim

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This is the first time the two musicians perform together in the city of their birth: a home game for them and one for which Argentinians had long awaited.

MMM | The Four Sesaons Recomposed by Max Richter

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To rekindle his love for the Four Seasons, Max Richter composed Recomposed in 2012. No one expected the global enthusiasm that his version triggered.

The Boy Who Dreams at FIFA 2025

Auditorium Films

A poetic portrait of Philippe Genty, visionary artist and master of visual theatre, selected at FIFA 2025.

Two Piano Fireworks and Symphonic Splendour

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Lucas & Arthur Jussen join the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelson at the state-of-the-art Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Yuja x Hockney at Lightroom London

C Major Entertainment

Inspired by projections of David Hockney's paintings, Yuja Wang plays a brilliant program with music from Baroque to contemporary works.

Yunchan Lim plays Bach's Goldberg Variations

Deutsche Grammophon GmbH

Korean piano sensation Yunchan Lim returns to Carnegie Hall to present one of the greatest masterpieces of keyboard music, Bach's Goldberg Variations.

PRODUCTIONS IN THE MAKING

DANZÓN! Waldbühne 2025

EuroArts Music International

A Latin-American Night with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Gustavo Dudamel and Ryan Speedo Green: Live recording 28 June 2025, 20:15.

Isacco, Voice Killer & discover the Season 25/26

VBW International GmbH

Oratorio Isacco, World premiere of Voice Killer and a rich 25/26 season with operetta, zarzuela, rarities, family opera and early music on all stages.

Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2025: Celebrating the Piano

EuroArts Music International

With Marc-André Hamelin, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Hayato Sumino.

LOOKING FOR COPRODUCTION

Youssou N'Dour brightens the world at Rio Loco

Auditorium Films

Youssou N’Dour and Le Super Étoile light up Rio Loco 2025 with a powerful live performance of Éclairer le monde (Brighten the world).

EVENT

Viennese Opera Ball 2025: The Year of Strauss

Viennese Opera Ball New York

In a celebration of culture, tradition, and timeless music, the 69th Annual Viennese Opera Ball returns to Cipriani 42nd Street on Friday, May 9th, 2025, for what promises to be one of the most spectacular evenings in New York’s social calendar.

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