INDUSTRY NEWS
June 2021

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 FROM THE IMZ

Digital Cross Over Final Presentation on 15 June online

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Register now for free for the Final Presentation of the project Digital Cross Over and join us on 15 June 2021, 10:00-13:30 CET, online!

Join the Fedora Award Ceremony

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

We are delighted to invite you to the FEDORA Award Ceremony on 17 June 2021 at 20:30 CET online, presenting the winner of the FEDORA Digital Prize, a collaboration with the IMZ!

Save the Date for the ICMA Award Ceremony

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

ICMA and Philharmonie Luxembourg have announced that the annual ICMA Award Ceremony takes place on 22 April 2022, accompanied by a glamourous Gala Concert!

Second IMZ Round Table: "Where will we be in 2022?"

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

By popular demand, the IMZ Directorate invites IMZ Members to a second Round Table to exchange views on current developments in June. The recording of the last Round Table is available online for all IMZ members!

The creativeSHIFT showcase is now available to watch online!

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Watch the creativeSHIFT showcase online, with the IMZ as Innovation Ambassador and learn more about our ideas on tackling challenges the creative industries are currently facing!

Those who innovate will thrive: Interview with Matthias Röder

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Find out more about the effects of digitalisation in music productions and the challenges + opportunities of music and VR/AR/AI/XR on the Digital Cross Over Blog!

Watch the IMZ Academy Session at Karajan Music Tech online!

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

The IMZ Academy Session "Is anybody out there? Radical new ways to reach audiences in the performing arts" is now available to watch on the IMZ Innovation Channel.

SPECIAL NEWS: AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT

Audience Development: New Projects!

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Check out the IMZ Member's latest initiatives on how to reach out to their customers!

Beethoven - The European Tour

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Taking audiences on a European tour: ARTE celebrates Ludwig van Beethoven and his 9 symphonies with musical fireworks.

CALLS + INDUSTRY NEWS

Hi-Res Audio: Sound without compromise

Berlin Phil Media GmbH

Berliner Philharmoniker’s Digital Concert Hall introduces new quality standard with Hi-Res Audio

KULMAG.LIVE presents International Classical Music Awards

KULMAG Kulturmanagement AG

Watch the ICMA awards ceremony via livestream on Sunday, June 27 2021 and learn more of the new streaming service KULMAG.LIVE portal.

Looking for String Quartet Films

Riddle Films

Riddle Films and The Banff International String Quartet Festival are looking for string quartet films for this year's festival.

One month left to enter the Golden Prague Festival

Czech Television

The deadline for entering the 58th annual Golden Prague Festival competition is June 30, 2021. Don’t wait until the last minute, enter today!

NEW PRODUCTIONS

200 Years of Konzerthaus Berlin & Der Freischütz

Accentus Music

The bicentennials of the Konzerthaus and Weber’s “Freischütz” are celebrated with a spectacular new production by La Fura dels Baus on 18 June 2021.

Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” in Zürich

Accentus Music

Tatjana Gürbaca’s new staging with Irina Lungu, Piotr Beczała and Massimo Cavalletti in the lead roles available as livestream on Arte Concert on 27 June June 2021.

Fabio Luisi’s farewell from the Opernhaus Zürich

Accentus Music

With Bruckner 7, Fabio Luisi bids farewell to the Opernhaus and Philharmonia Zürich after 9 years as music director. Livestream on 19 June 2021.

Great Moments in Music - Martha Argerich in Warsaw

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Martha Argerich's appearance at the 1965 Chopin Competition marks the beginning of an incomparable career. It comes down to the finale - a legend is born.

MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT with a New Year's Eve Gala

Clasart Classic

Angel Blue, Javier Camarena, Matthew Polenzani and Pretty Yende join forces for the Metropolitan Opera’s MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT New Year's Eve Gala.

Met stars live in concert with Bryn Terfel

Clasart Classic

Legendary bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel performs a holiday program live from Brecon Cathedral in his native Wales.

Pavarotti: Live in Central Park

C Major Entertainment

When more than 500,000 people gathered in New York's Central Park on 26 June 1993, they wanted to hear only one thing: The voice of Luciano Pavarotti.

RCO: Dudamel conducts Mozart & Mahler

C Major Entertainment

After an absence of more than seven years, Gustavo Dudamel returns to the Concertgebouworkest. And how!

Reinhold Messner & DSO: musical mountain climbing

EuroArts Music International

The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Robin Ticciati present Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony as a guided musical mountain tour with Reinhold Messner.

Sound-Treck Europe: Greece

EuroArts Music International

After the pilot episode “Sound-Treck Austria” we continue our ‘sound-treck’ through Europe in Greece.

Sound-Treck Europe: Norway

EuroArts Music International

After the pilot episode “Sound-Treck Austria” we continue our ‘sound-treck’ through Europe in Norway.

The Carnival of the Animals

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It is his best known work. Camille Saint-Saëns did not want it to be published. The music piece itself tells its story.

The Royal Ballet on top form in Romeo and Juliet

Opus Arte

The Royal Ballet are on top form in this youthful performance of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers.

The RSC presents King John, a Shakespearean rarity

Opus Arte

Shakespeare’s rarely performed tale of a nation in turmoil vibrates with modern resonance in this vivid, exciting new production by director Eleanor Rhode.

Touched - A poetic documentary

Tanzrauschen

A poetic road documentary about loss, life, and the German dance theatre icon Pina Bausch by Jukka Rajala-Granstubb & Marc Wagenbach.

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