On New Year's Eve 2022, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko welcome a very special guest: Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann joins in for a rousing Italian and Russian programme. Sonorous foundation, radiant high notes, intelligent…

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…

Can there be a more charming ambassador for Scotland than Amy Macdonald? On the other hand: On stage, there is an approachable and likable artist who has evidently found her voice, and furthermore— transforms Stuttgart's historic Schlossplatz into a…

Conducted by the brilliantly tousled maestro at his space console, the ensemble injects its inescapable pulse into the dance-hungry audience in the city center of Stuttgart on the renowned Schlossplatz of the New Castle at the jazzopen stuttgart. The…

After more than 3 years of absence and millions of albums sold all over the world, the French singer ZAZ gave a unique concert in the Carrières de Lumières des Baux de Provence in October 2021. Accompanied by her musicians, she performs her greatest…

By the beginning of the 1990’s, facing the indifference for the AIDS epidemic, Act Up activists invent a spectacular and provocative style of action, widely imitated since then. This documentary shows how 120 BPM, multi-primed movie in 2017…