"Chopin. I am not afraid of Darkness" is an unusual documentary film asking whether classical music can heal places affected by war and suffering, taking the viewer on a cinematic journey through unique and sinister sceneries. It weaves the stories…

Ten years of hard work have made the Arod Quartet one of the most brilliant of its generation. For it takes years to blend together four individual talents into one. Resolving conflicts, working together, travelling and touring without neglecting…

There is a special magic in singing together - everyone who has ever sung in a choir agrees on that. When a wide variety of voices come together in all their diversity, an enormous musical power emerges. “The joy of singing“ follows this magic and…

The film "Carl Nielsen – Between heaven and earth" is intended to draw a psychological portrait of Nielsen’s life; a portrait of the composer in the turbulent times at the turn of the 20th century and the First World War. Who was this son of a…

Margreet Honig is an exceptional Dutch singing teacher who is in great demand internationally. She teaches regularly in Europe and North America and works with world-renowned singers such as Magdalena Kožená. Over the course of her long career…

Based on the novel "Les Grands" by Sylvain Prudhomme. Guinea Bissau singer Malan Mané has lived for 30 years in exile in Montreuil, France, as an anonymous immigrant worker. Yet he was once the star of one of West Africa’s finest and most legendary…

The young conductor John Warner (27) and the musicians of Orchestra for the Earth are going to Austria, searching for the deeper meaning of the magical Gustav Mahler composition "Das Lied von der Erde". They refuse to take an aeroplane, since its CO2…

In July 2021, after the last German soldier had left the country, the film team of Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin and German-Afghan journalist Sharmila Hashimi traveled to Kabul to meet female singers. No one could have guessed at the time that this…

We have no moving images of Gustav Mahler and no recordings of his voice, but there are photos, texts and music. They've been brought together to form a whole in: The Mahler Monologues. It's neither a historical approach nor a chronological one, but…

In the middle of the largest contiguos rainforest area in the world stands an opera house: the Teatro Amazonas. The neo-classical building in the centre of the Amazon metropolis Manaus has room for more than 700 people and was the second largest…