The Cat Empire lights up the Jazzopen Festival 2024 with their signature blend of Ska, Jazz, and Latin rhythms, delivering an energetic and unforgettable performance that has the audience dancing and singing along to their infectious grooves.

At Jazzopen 2024, Angélique Kidjo delivers a mesmerizing performance that seamlessly blended African rhythms with jazz, funk, and global beats. Her powerful vocals, dynamic stage presence, and infectious energy captivates the audience, turning the…

World-renowned bassist and vocalist Richard Bona brings his eclectic blend of jazz, Afro-Cuban, and African rhythms to life in a captivating performance at the Jazzopen Festival 2024, showcasing his virtuosity and unique global sound.

Ingmar Bergman’s semi-autobiographical film "Fanny och Alexander" (1982) comes to life on the opera stage, in a creation by composer Mikael Karlsson and librettist Royce Vavrek. Stage director is Ivo van Hove. A grandiose family chronicle demands…

Director Christof Loy continues his series of opulent operas from the first third of the 20th century at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In “La fiamma”, imposing choruses and colossal tableaux accompany a story about intrigues, power play and an affair…

In "Songs for Eternity", Ute Lemper brings to life compositions and lyrics by Jewish musicians and artists that were written in concentration camps during World War II and entrusted to her in the form of a songbook by her agent, Orly Beigel. This…

Prior to the Nazi invasion of 1939, the successful Jewish Czech businessman Emil Freund spent years building a magnificent art collection of impressionist, modernist and abstract paintings. Here we imagine an intimate soirée in his Prague apartment…

On the island of Ceylon, two pearl fishermen and childhood friends are torn apart by their love for the same woman, the young priestess Leïla. In this opera, which marks his debut, Bizet delivers luminous, tender music with a subtle Oriental flavour…

Richard Strauss’s Elektra was the sensation that ushered in modernity by at the same time popularizing it. Heroes on the verge of madness, just what the audience loves! The world comes tumbling down upon us, specifically here: the Straussian…

Revenge is served blazing hot in Semele, Handel’s sexiest and most scandalous oratorio. The 2023 Festival presents Glyndebourne’s first ever production, directed by Olivier Award nominee Adele Thomas and conducted by baroque music specialist Václav…