The German cellist Tanja Tetzlaff performs J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites Nos. 4 and 5 amid natural surroundings devastated by climate change. Beauty confronts its own destruction. Do we really want to watch without lifting a finger? Melting glaciers…

When painter Gustav Klimt coated his famous paintings with gold leaf, Richard Strauss musically reveled in the opulence that was so typical of Vienna at the time. No fewer than five powerful Wagnerian voices are needed for his "Die Frau ohne Schatten…

Christian Zacharias is set to bid farewell to his piano, marking the occasion with a remarkable solo recital at the Pierre Gianadda Foundation in Martigny (Switzerland) Zacharias's repertoire for the evening features Franz Schubert's enchanting…

The first concert of the season features three works, each expressing in its own way the search for peace and reconciliation. The 2022-23 season opens with a programme that, like the rest of the season, has everything: Beethoven’s Ninth, a…

Copland wrote his ballet score Appalachian Spring for a 13-member chamber ensemble in 1944. Since then, it has had several orchestral arrangements. The one on the programme is by the evening’s conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Balancing it out is…

‘I want to create a joyful, entertaining work with plenty of energy. I really look forward to working with all the talent in GöteborgsOperans Danskompani.’  — Alexander Ekman In Hammer, a harmonious community shares an altruistic lifestyle inspired…

Giacomo Puccini honours his own code by bringing all those elements together in a single work, Il trittico, which is made up of three one-act operas. Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his…

In her hometown Münster, Ute Lemper interprets compositions by Jewish composers that were written in the concentration camps during the dictatorship of Nazi Germany. She presents rarely performed compositions from Auschwitz in a particularly…

On the occasion of her 60th birthday (*4 July 1963), director Silvia Beck accompanies Ute Lemper on a journey through the most important stages of her career. Quickly, a picture of a misunderstood German in the midst of post-war change emerges, who…

Born in 2009, the young prodigy Tsotne Zedginidze, who goes by the stage name Tsotne, offers an astonishing programme which includes his own compositions: Dolorem, Spring, Improvisation and Lullaby, alongside a selection of Debussy Preludes, Bartók's…