CONSUMER NEWS
August 2026
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.
Save the Date: Avant Première 2027
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
After thirteen years in Berlin, Avant Première is packing its bags for Vienna, and we couldn't be more excited about what comes next.
Contribute to the Conference Programme
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Share your proposals by 25 September and see them realised at the Avant Première 2027 conference programme.
NEW RELEASES
CD: Johann Sebastian Bach – The Motets
Accentus Music
Bach’s motets in a vibrant new recording by the Gaechinger Cantorey and Hans-Christoph Rademann.
iTunes: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
EuroArts Music International
Feasturing one of the most popular and recognizeable orchestral tunes in all of opera!
DVD + Blu-Ray: The Royal Ballet: La Fille mal gardée (2025)
Opus Arte
Escape to the country; brimming with humour and choreographic invention, this is the perfect ballet for all the family.
LIVESTREAMS + BROADCASTS
Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso & Ludovic Tézier
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
7 2025: Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso and Ludovic Tézier lead an all-star cast in Puccini’s Tosca from Festival Cap Rocat.
American Sounds Open Lucerne Festival 2026
Accentus Music
14 2026: Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra open the 2026 summer season with Gershwin, Ives, and pianist Frank Dupree.
The Power of the Ring
Accentus Music
15 2026: From Bayreuth to pop culture, “The Power of the Ring – 150 Years The Ring of the Nibelung” explores the work’s enduring fascination.
Chailly’s Rachmaninoff Finale
Accentus Music
18 2026: With Lukas Sternath, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra bring their Rachmaninoff cycle to a vivid conclusion.
VICEO ON DEMAND
Julia Fischer, Iván Fischer & BFO
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Julia Fischer joins Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra for Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Brahms’s Symphony No. 2.
NEWS
Flagey celebrates Beethoven with 2 concert cycles
Flagey asbl/vzw
Next season, Flagey celebrates Beethoven 2027 with the Quatuor Ébène’s string quartet cycle and the completion of Boris Giltburg’s sonata cycle.
Stream the Berliner Philharmoniker’s new season
Berlin Phil Media GmbH
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s new season begins on 21 August. Enjoy all the concerts live in the Digital Concert Hall!
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