Catapult Opera will host a release party on Jan. 14, 2026, for its new album of Nadia Boulanger’s “La Ville Morte” at Cary Hall at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. with a reception, followed by a musical program at 6:15 p.m. featuring soprano Melissa Harvey and tenor Joshua Dennis, {…}
Is it mere coincidence that Nadia Boulanger’s “La ville morte” and Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt” fixate so obsessively on the past? In both works, the “dead city” is less a place than a psychological condition. Yet whereas Korngold’s necrophilia is filtered through Freudian “psychologie pathologique,” Boulanger’s figures inhabit a Symbolist world of ancestral trauma and fatality. “La ville morte” reads {…}
PENTATONE has announced a partnership with Marin Alsop, one of the foremost conductors of our time and a powerful and inspiring voice. Among the recording plans that will form part of this new partnership are extensive symphonic surveys of Mahler and Shostakovich. Alsop will become the first woman conductor ever to record these surveys. In a statement, Alsop said, “I’m {…}
“Bluebeard,” or Barbe bleue, may very well rank among the most disturbing of Perrault’s fairy tales. Its notoriety is such that bluebeard, in everyday language, is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a man who marries and kills one wife after another.” The storyline is precisely that—though it has a happy ending, if slaying the murderous protagonist is the type of justice {…}
PENTATONE has announced that it will now be releasing mobile-optimized booklets for its releases. The feature will be available for a select range of works, though it will be expanded further over time. “At PENTATONE, we’re always thinking about the user experience, and this shift to mobile-optimized content is part of our ongoing commitment to ensure our audiences can enjoy every {…}
PENTATONE has a new licensing partnership with Collabhouse. The partnership will offer up composers, filmmakers, advertisers, game developers, and other creators an opportunity to use PENTATONE’s catalogue for their works. “At PENTATONE, we’re always looking for innovative ways to share our music with new audiences. This collaboration with Collabhouse creates exciting possibilities for fresh interpretations and fosters creativity across industries. {…}
After this summer’s “Un Ballo in Maschera,” the forces behind the Dutch label Pentatone are turning their attention to another heavy-hitter from the Italian repertoire: with “Tosca” they enter the well-trodden territory of one of the most recorded operas ever. Yet, Carlo Montanaro and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester do not pretend to proverbially reinvent the wheel the way Rostropovich famously did in {…}
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announced that it is the new home of PENTATONE Music. The new partnership will enable students, artists, and the public to benefit from the combined resources of a leading conservatory and a legendary label. PENTATONE joins an existing alliance between SFCM and Opus 3 Artists, a renowned management company that the Conservatory acquired in October 2020. {…}
PENTATONE has announced that Sean Hickey will be its new Managing Director. Hickey’s career spans three decades in the recording industry. He was Senior Vice-President, Sales and Business Development, for Naxos of America, a company he was with for 19 years. Additionally, Hickey is an award-winning composer who has been recorded for such labels as Naxos, Delos, Our, Marquis, Toccata, {…}
PENTATONE has announced a long-term partnership with the Czech Philharmonic. In a statement, the company said, “there are a handful of orchestras in the world whose sound culture, while firmly rooted in a particular realm of repertoire, transcends generations and shifting national boundaries – the Czech Philharmonic among them. It is extraordinarily fortunate and beautifully symbolic that we have at {…}
Pentatone’s Managing Director Simon M. Eder has joined international artist management agency Intermusica as Managing Director, Business Development starting January 2022. Eder joined Pentatone in 2013 as Marketing Director and was appointed Managing Director in 2017. During his time with the label, the organization completely rebranded and flourished into the digital era. Pentatone also focused on expanding its catalog and {…}