CONSUMER NEWS
March 2025

Your monthly update on performing arts releases, live streams, previews and specials - directly from the producers. Brought to you by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre, the international business network supporting performing arts through audiovisual media.


This was Avant Première 2025

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

Avant Première 2025 brings together cultural broadcasting professionals for four days of screenings, discussions, and networking.

NEW RELEASES

CD: Berliner Philharmoniker and Karajan live

Berlin Phil Media GmbH

Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings presents live radio recordings with Herbert von Karajan 1952–1969 – most of them first releases.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Eugene Onegin staged by Laurent Pelly

NAXOS Audiovisual Division

Tchaikovsky’s lyric opera Eugene Onegin staged by Laurent Pelly at De Munt / La Monnaie and conducted by Alain Altinoglu with a star cast of performers.

CD: Franz Liszt: Études d'exécution transcendante

Accentus Music

After the much-lauded complete recording of Scriabin's piano sonatas, Yunjie Chen presents another piano cycle close to his heart.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Macbeth

C Major Entertainment

Liceu's Macbeth highlights the drama of Verdi's opera through the brilliant protagonists, Tézier and Serafin, and the staging of Christof Loy.

CD: Prokofiev: The String Quartets | Quatuor Danel

Accentus Music

After their award-winning Shostkakovich cycle, Quatuor Danel present Prokofiev's rarely performed string quartets in a riveting new recording!

DVD + Blu-Ray: Strauss’s 'Arabella' staged by Tobias Kratzer

NAXOS Audiovisual Division

Strauss’s Arabella staged by Tobias Kratzer and conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Sara Jakubiak in the title role.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake - The Royal Ballet 2024

Opus Arte

Classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage, starring Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball.

DVD + Blu-Ray: The Glass Menagerie - A ballet by John Neumeier

C Major Entertainment

This double feature dedicated to John Neumeier presents the ballet The Glass Menagerie and the acclaimed documentary A Life for Dance.

ON DEMAND

Lang Lang in Paris

Deutsche Grammophon GmbH

Works by Fauré, Schumann and Chopin are at the centre of Lang Lang’s recital from the Philharmonie de Paris.

Two-piano fireworks and symphonic splendour

Deutsche Grammophon GmbH

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

BROADCASTS

Met Opera: Live in HD – Fidelio

Clasart Classic

15 2025: Extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen stars in Beethoven’s only opera – transmitted live to cinemas on 15 March.

MMM | Michelangeli plays Ravel

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16 2025: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli is still the embodiment of Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major.

LIVESTREAMS

Lucas & Arthur Jussen in Dortmund

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Lucas and Arthur Jussen perform Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E major.

NEWS

2025 SF Dance Film Festival: Call for Submissions

San Francisco Dance Film Festival

Now Accepting Submissions for the 2025 San Francisco Dance Film Festival.

International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) Ceremony

IMZ International Music + Media Centre

ICMA, in collaboration with Tonhalle Düsseldorf, presents the 2025 Awards at a spectacular Award Ceremony Gala on 19 March.

Klarafestival 2025: We Are Now

Flagey asbl/vzw

One of Belgium’s most known classical music festivals celebrates its 20th anniversary under the theme ‘We Are Now’ from 20 to 30 March.

OnstageAI: Transforming Music Video Production

OnStageAI

Discover OnstageAI's cutting-edge tech development empowering live concert video productions in production with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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