A two-part project that brings together artistic works that have one thing in common: a 'twist' or turning point, after which - just like in real life - nothing is as it once was. [...]
This is a performance with two dance pieces that wander around in a non-staged environment. The two choreographers and dancers, Tatyana Chizhikova and Yulia Arsen, detach their creations from their original stage versions [...].
Huge shadows lie over the many scenes of new music in the territory of the former Soviet Union, which is currently once again the scene of violent geopolitical conflicts. The lively exchange between leading composers and performers [...]
Boris Filanovsky's "Ob aus Luft" is a musical meditation on loss, inspired by Maria Stepanova's celebrated cycle of poems. With a perfect blend of silence and fervor, static and expression, [...]
There is no correct or incorrect way to remember. But we are constantly being disciplined into particular ways of recollecting: by memory politics, media discourse, our families, our surroundings, our [...]
The dialectic of freedom and oppression is the central theme running through the diverse artistic programme of this concert by the Neue Vocalsolisten. Works will be performed that were written especially for the Neue Vocalsolisten and are being presented in public for the first time. The memories of women who experienced the revolution in Belarus in 2020, recorded by the artist Olga Bubich, [...]
The dictatorship of art! - No dictator knows its secrets. But there are suggestions here: Fire and water, gallons of bubble bath, a huge pentagram-like wooden construction and pulsating music samples create a wonderful new world. Why crack hard nuts? It's enough to break their resistance. Burning chairs instead of flaming speeches, retreat from excessive demands instead of bloody tribunals, healing mud [...]
The dictatorship of art! - No dictator knows its secrets. But there are suggestions here: Fire and water, gallons of bubble bath, a huge pentagram-like wooden construction and pulsating music samples create a wonderful new world. Why crack hard nuts? It's enough to break their resistance. Burning chairs instead of flaming speeches, retreat from excessive demands instead of bloody tribunals, healing mud [...]
Gustav Mahler 10th Symphony: Adagio and works inspired by Mahler's Tenth by leading composers of our time: Philippe Manoury, Mark Andre, Jay Schwartz and Alexey Retinsky Fragmentary and yet complete: The [...]
After the brilliant performance of the Cherubini Requiem in May 2023, Thomas Hengelbrock and his ensembles return to the Philharmonie with the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. With this famous work [...]
