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Can this be true? It's on the homepage of the Slowakian National Opera in Bratislava.
Have they confused composer and work or have they unearthed something I can't find in any of my reference books or online?

Premiere, Friday, 7. April 2017, 19:00 / Hall of Opera and Ballet, the new building of SND
Fromental Halévy: Ba-ta -clan
A five-act opera

["Holofernes"]

Deutschlandradio Kultur 25th June 2016 at 19:05

Oper in deutschen Ländern
Oper Bonn
Aufzeichnung vom 29.05.2016

Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek
"Holofernes", Oper in zwei Akten
Libretto vom Komponisten, frei nach Friedrich Hebbels Drama "Judith"

Osias, Oberpriester von Bethulien - Daniel Pannermayr
Judith - Johanni van Oostrum
Abra, ihre Magd - Ceri Williams
Holofernes - Mark Morouse
Achior, Hauptmann des Holofernes - Johannes Mertes
1. Hauptmann - Jonghoon You
2. Hauptmann - Nicholas Probst
3. Hauptmann - Sven Bakin
Assad, ein Bürger - Eduard Katz
Daniel, sein Bruder - Josef Michael Linnek
Gesandter von Mesopotamien - Martin Tzonev
Ein Trabant - Egbert Herold
Eine weibliche Stimme - Nina Unden
Chor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Leitung: Jacques Lacombe

The opera will be repeated in WDR on June 19th at 20:05 and SWR2 on 10th July 2016 at 20:03.

On all occasions I can't record as I'm in other theatres so I hope someone else will. It's an opportunity not to be missed as it's the first staging since WWII.

I can't ascertain if CPO will take it into their Reznicek series.

In the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra's new season brochure is the announcment that during the season the orchestra will be putting on four opera concert performances:

Saint-Saens: Proserpine [October 9th 2016] (in co-operation with Palazzetto Bru Zane)
Beethoven: Leonore [November 20th 2016]
Mozart: Die verstellte Gärtnerin [January 22nd 2017]
Delibes: Lakmé [May 14th 2017]

The operas are usually broadcast on the days of performance. So stand by your recorders!

Being broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur on April 9th at 19:05

Oper in deutschen Ländern
Bühnen der Stadt Gera
Produktion vom 01./02.04.2016

Hans Sommer
"Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neiße"
Phantastisch-romantische Oper in vier Aufzügen
Libretto: Eberhard König

    Musikalische Leitung: Laurent Wagner
    Inszenierung: Kay Kuntze
    Bühne, Kostüme: Duncan Hayler*
    Choreinstudierung: Holger Krause
    Dramaturgie: Felix Eckerle

    Besetzung:
    Rübezahl: Magnus Piontek
    Buko: Johannes Beck
    Gertrud: Anne Preuß
    Wido: Hans-Georg Priese
    Brigitte: Merja Mäkelä
    Bernhard Kraft: Jueun Jeon
    Stäblein/ Ein Diener Bukos: Alexander Voigt
    Totengräber/ Kettner/ Nachtwächter: Kai Wefer
    Joachim: Andreas Veit
    Wachthabender: Xiangnan Yao
    Theobald: N. N.

  * als Gast

I hope someone out there can record it because I can't. I will see it later this month and can report on it afterwards.

I have taken the trouble to compare the Wexford production against the vocal score and am horrified to find the cut are more substantial than I feared.
The are a total of 20 cuts amounting to 410 bars of music a few of which are incredibly short and make no sense dramatically or musically, to me at least.
I am not qualified to suggest how many minutes are missing, but given that the performance totals 113 minutes, I feel completeness would not have been out of order.
The experience of travelling to Wexford leaves me severely disappointed that one cannot rely on a house such as Wexford, whose reputation for exhuming rarities is almost unprecedented. I'm almost glad I don't possess the vocal scores for Koanga and Le Pré aux clercs! I have the impression that the sale of interval champagne and expensive memorabilia seem to be more important than giving us musical value for the expensive tickets.
Some years ago a production of Bizet's Carmen was labelled in the publicity as "a version": a fact I find perfectly justifiable when short measure is on offer.
As a young man I sang in a few amateur opera productions and the companies made no cuts whatsoever!
A text file listing details of the cuts is available under:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/cwoy10tox26p097/Wexford_2015_-_Mascagni_-_Guglielmo_Ratcliff_-_The_Cuts.docx

Much has been said on this forum about Mascagni and his Guglielmo Ratcliffe but having just come back from Wexford I can only thoroughly recommend the coming broadcast next Saturday evening (October 31st). I saw Gian-Carlo del Monaco's production in Bonn in 1997 which I thought impressive enough but this production in Wexford knocks all spots off it. From the opening notes I was rivetted by the production which would have been dramtically improved had there been no intervals. The music at the beginning of act 3 almost made my skin creep and Ratcliffe's voice (Angelo Villari) was almost too big for the Wexford stage.
The other two operas being presented this year - Koanga (Delius) and Le Pré aux clercs (Hérold) - will be transmitted on the successive Saturdays by RTÉ Lyrique at 8 p.m. Le Pré aux clercs is a co-production with the Opéra Comique as well as Palazzo Bru zane and is a real unsung!

Mascagni Guglielmo Ratcliffe broadcast on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l1v7q

RTÉ Lyric FM Opera Night at 8 p.m.
Saturday 31st October

Niall Carroll presents tonight's opera live from the National Opera House as part of the Wexford Festival Opera 2015 - Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliff starring Angelo Villari in the title role, Mariangela Sicilia is Maria, David Stout is Count Douglas, Annunziata Vestri is Margherita and Gianluca Buratto is MacGregor. Francesco Cilluffo conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Wexford Festival Opera.

Saturday 7th November

Niall Carroll presents tonight's opera which was recorded last week at the National Opera House as part of the Wexford Festival Opera 2015 – Delius' Koanga starring Norman Garrett in the title role, Nozuko Teto as Palmyra, Jeff Gwaltney as Simon Perez and Rachel Croash as Renee. Stephen Barlow conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Wexford Festival Opera.

Saturday 14th November

Niall Carroll presents tonight's opera which was recorded at the National Opera House as part of the Wexford Festival Opera 2015 – Herold's Le Pre aux clercs starring Marie Lenormand as Marguerite de Valois, Marie-Eve Munger as Isabelle Montal and Nico Darmanin as Baron de Mergy. Jean-Luc Tingaud conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Wexford Festival Opera.

Advance notice from the Felix Woyrsch Society homepage:

Woyrsch, Felix: Symphonies no. 4 & 5. Gartenszene aus ,,Szenen zu Goethes Faust" / Felix Woyrsch. – Georgsmarienhütte : cpo, 2016. – 1 Compact Disc + Notes.
Interpreteers: Radio-Philharmonie <Hannover> : Dorsch, Thomas [conductor];
In preparation

Advance notice for 2nd February 2016 - another Palazzetto Blu Zane supported concert performance in the Opéra Royal, Versailles.
Benjamin Godard - Dante et Beatrice with Véronique Gens, Rachel Frenkel, Edgaras Montvidas, Jean-François Lapointe, Andrew Foster-Williams and Sarah Laulan
Chœur de la Radio Bavaroise
Orchestre de la Radio de Munich
Ulf Schirmer, direction

Tickets already available!

With a bit of luck it will be premièred in Munich and transmitted on Bavarian Classic Radio.

[From the Sullivan Society homepage]

From the Sullivan Society homepage
The 2015 Sullivan Society conference will take place at the Royal Agricultural University. Cirencester on 11, 12 and 13 September 2015.
Among various talks Martin Yates will give an exposition on the score of The Light of the World. Can we hope that this unrecorded work in its full form will see the light of day?

Also announced:
The BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers, conducted by John Andrews, are  recording Sullivan's complete incidental music to The Tempest and Macbeth in February and March for issue on two separate CDs. This will be the first complete recording of the Macbeth music (although the concert suite is available on Naxos and the overture has been recorded several times), and the first complete recording since 1955 of The Tempest. The Macbeth recording will also include Sullivan's overture Marmion - the first recording of the complete version as the composer intended it.

Hans Gál - Piano Concerto in C major op. 57 will be broadcast on Thursday February 5th on Deutschlandradio Kultur in a concert beginning at 20:03 (CET).

Harmut Hudezeck, piano
Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera
Laurent Wagner, conductor

Before and after the Gál are Haydn's Sinfonie No. 8 and Beethoven's Eroica.

Did anyone record Max Bruch's opera Die Loreley last night from Bavarian Radio?

I didn't make the record button on time so have everything except part of the Vorspiel! I think only a minute or so is missing.

Prague again!
I attended the second première of Fibich's complete Pád Arkuna (Helga as Prologue and Dargun as a 3 act opera) yesterday and can only urge anyone who's a Fibich fan and able to get to Prague to do so. Further performances 12th & 20th October 2014 as well as 28 January 2015 and 9th & 18th April 2015.
It was a production that won't be forgotten in a hurry and the music IMHO was Fibich at his best and a great pity that this opera apparently hasn't been staged for over 80 years. I was unable to discover if a recording has or is going to be made although it was filmed on a single camera yesterday - I presume for in-house consumption. Czech Television is listed in the programme as media partner, but there's no mention of possible transmission, DVD or CD. I feel it would be a disgrace if nothing is done to preserve such a deserving production. Total time is 2 hours 45 minutes!

Prague hosted the world premiere of the original version of Antonín Dvořák's opera Alfred on Wednesday 17th September. The work was performed within the framework of the international music festival "Dvořák Prague" with the original German libretto at a concert in the Rudolfinum. The concert has also been recorded and is supposed to be released on CD towards the end of the year. The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Heiko Mathias Förster, the main characters sung by Petra Froese, Jarmila Baxová, Ferdinand of Bottmer and Felix Hull. The score of the opera was not issued to Dvořák's lifetime, the work was only performed in 1938, in Olomouc in Czech translation.

For his first opera the 29-year-old Dvořák used the then 60 year old text from the German Romantic poet Karl Theodor Körner.

The foundation Palazetto Bru Zane never ceases to amaze with the opera rarities they sponsor. After Joncières' Dmitri (recently appeared) and Saint-Saëns' Les Barbares (to come) I have discovered that in the 2014-2015 season of the Theater an der Wien (Vienna) they are sponsoring a concert performance of Gounod's opera Cinq-Mars. The performance is scheduled for Tuesday, 27th January 2015 at 7 p.m.

Cinq Mars
Drame lyrique in four acts (1877)
Music by Charles Gounod
Libretto by Paul Poirson & Louis Gallet after Alfred de Vigny's historical novel of the same name (1826)

Concert performance in French

With Véronique Gens, Charles Castronovo and others.
Chorus of the Bavarian Radio
Munich Radio-Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Ulf Schirmer

A co-production with the Palazetto Bru Zane Venice

The Munich Radio-Symphony Orchestra hasn't yet announced its programme for the coming season so I don't know if there will be a corresponding performance in Munich or hopefully a radio transmission from either Munich or Vienna.

4 pieces of chamber music by Bernhard Sekles are appearing on the Toccata label 4th March 2014:

Chaconne für Viola und Klavier op. 38
Sonate für Violoncello und Piano, op. 28
Capriccio in vier Sätzen (für Klaviertrio)
Sonate für Violine und Klavier op. 44

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Bernhard-Sekles-1872-1934-Kammermusik/hnum/3237422

I can only hope there's more to come!

[Rarities during 2014 I've gleaned from a German site]

Rarities during 2014 I've gleaned from a German site
As already advised Saint-Saëns Les Barbares 14 & 16 February 2014 from Saint-Etienne will be conducted by Laurent Campellone and the cast includes Kate Aldrich. (CD- recording)
Karel Miry: Bouchard d'Avesnes, Ghent  Conservatoire, 2 March (CD-recording)
Felicien David: Herculaeum Opéra Royal Versaille. Concert, 8 March (CD- recording)
Theodore Dubois: Aben Hamet,  Atelier Lyrique, Tourcoing 14-18 March (CD- recording)
Fromental Halevy: Le Dilettant d'Avignon, Opera Grand Theater Avignon, 14 April  (CD- recording)
Carl Mangold : Tanhäuser  27 April  -  18 May, Theater Buchholz-Annaberg;
Charles Lecoq: Ali Baba 12-22 May, Opéra Comique Paris  (CD- recording)
Karl Binder: Tanhäuser, (23 Nov 2012)  – 15 June 2014, Theater Görlitz
Morlacchi: Tebaldo e Isolina, 27 July, Rossini Festival Bad Wildbad  (CD- recording)
Donizetti: La Favorite 22/26 August, Salzburg (date not certain)
Mariotte: Salomé, Wexford, October 22, 25, 28 &31 
Cagnoni: Don Bucefalo, Wexford, October 23, 26, 29 &November 1 
Puts: Silent Night (Putlitzer Prize in Music 2012), Wexford, October 24, 27, 30 &November 2 (European première)
Nicola De Giosa, Don Checco, Teatro di Corte, Neapel, November/December 2014

Félicien David aficionados can look forward to Festival in Venice from 5 April to 17 May Among other works is his opéra-comique Le Saphir in the version for nine instruments and vocal soloists.
On 12. April is Davids Mélodies orientales et briese orient, while in Paris/Cité de la Musique Le Desert can be heard on 6 May)
In Versailles 8 March David's opera Herculaneum with Véronique Gens under Niquet will be performed.
20 March in Sofia sees David's oratorio Moise au Sinai (also 4 April in Thessalonika).
The Radio France Festival in Montpellier in August will bring his ode-symphonie Christoph Colombe under Francois-Xaviér Roth.
All apparently appearing on diverse CD-Labels
David's opera Lallah-Roukh is due to appear on Naxos. (a Palazetto Bru Zane project)
Further goodies are:
Théodore Dubois' Hamlet in concert performance at the Festival Classica in Monteregie under Jean-Claude Malgoire.
Grétry's Guillaume Tell from the Opéra de la Wallonie is due to appear on CD.
Nicola Piccinnis Atys from the Abbaye-Ecole Sorèze under Julien Chauvet is in planned.
The Versailles recording of Salieri's magnificent opera Les Danaides (November 2013) under Christophe Rousset with the bass-baritone Tassis Chrstoyannis is due to appear on CD.
Also Charles Lecocq's opera comique Ali-Baba under Jean-Pierre Haeck is being given in Avignon.

After Massenet's Le Mage from St. Etienne we can now look forward to another operatic rarity thanks to the support of the Palazzetto Bru Zane. Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Les Barbares is being retrieved from the archives. It's a tragédie lyrique in 3 acts and a prologue to a libretto by Victorien Sardou and Pierre-Barthélémy Gheusi. Concert performances are being given this coming Friday (14th) and Sunday (16th) in the Grand Théâtre Massenet in St. Etienne. A CD production is envisaged but I can't find advance notice of a possible radio transmission, so I guess we'll just have to wait for the Ediciones Singulares product to hear it.

Don't get too excited, it's not the opera but 20 minutes of ballet music from the opera! At least it's a start. It isn't so far from Barcelona to St Etienne.

Also included is the ballet music from Thais, Hérodiade and Le Cid.

http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573123

Opera from German Countries
Live from the Opera House Halle

Saturday 30th November 2013 at 19:00 in Deutschlandradio Kultur

Bernhard Sekles
Schahrazade
Oper in drei Akten
Libretto: Gerdt von Bassewitz
Schahryar - Gerd Vogel
Said-Fares - Ki-Hyun Park
Omar - Ralph Ertel
Schahrazade - Anke Berndt
Dunyazade - Ines Lex
Saad, Tochter eines Emirs/Banjospielerin - Theresa Dittmar
Musair, ein Kaufherr aus Balsora/Der Kämmerer - Thomas Möwes
Der Obereunuch - Nils Giesecke
Der Schatzmeister - Olaf Schöder
Der Oberstallmeister - Ulrich Burdack
Banjospielerin - Sandra Maxheimer
Banjospielerin - Mária Petrašovská
Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera House Halle
Conductor: Josep Caballé-Domenech

The 2013-2014 opera season has two very rare operas by unsung composers:

1 Bernhard Seklles, Schaharazade, Halle, premère on 30.11.2013.
2 Ethyl Smyth, The Boatswain's Mate, Luzern, premiere on 15.02.2014

Other rarities next season for opera fans include the following:
Antheil, The Brothers / Venus in Africa, Lübeck
Arrieta, The Conquest of Granada, Gießen
Dvorak, Wanda, Osnabrück
Hubay, Anna Karenina, Braunschweig (Brunswick)
Netzer, Mara, Innsbrück