Performing Arts

Bollywood in a refugee camp: in this docu-musical, refugees sing about the loss of their identity without pathos, but with a lot of irony.

The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.

The Greek composer and national hero Mikis Theodorakis settles accounts on stage with a society that robs its children of their future.

A choreographer and a visual artist bring together urban dance and opera to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes.

The penguins encounter Swiss alpine cows, swim in the river, walk leisurely through the city center... they are everywhere. An adventure begins.

Stay or go? In the year before the fall of the Wall, a group of dancers have to decide whether to stay in the GDR or flee to the West.

80 young artists from all over the world meet at Lichtenberg Castle, Germany to experience the creative and unifying power of music and dance.

100 years ago, Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance, choreographed a solo dance to deal with the traumatic accidental death of her children.

The famous German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig makes the public singing master class an experience with her incomparably humorous manner. With a sense ...

The famous German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig makes the public singing master class an experience with her incomparably humorous manner. With a sense ...

Video technology provided the opportunity to create an amazingly innovative production that matched Stockhausen's music, libretto, dance actions and gestures. ...

"Giselle" is considered the epitome of romantic ballet and has been part of the standard repertoire of many ballet companies since it premiered 1841.

Possibly Schoenberg’s finest work, and certainly one that he held close to his heart, is his unfinished opera „Moses und Aron“.

David Parsons is one of the golden boys of US dance, combining great popular appeal with quality and integrity of ideas. As artistic director, choreographer ...

Heiner Goebbels creates an impressive web of interlocking musical episodes as a homage to the dramatist and director Heiner Müller. Goebbels has a genius ...

Bernard Haitink, one of Mahler's most gifted interpreters, conducts Mahler's "Fourth Symphony" from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with American soloist ...

Bernard Haitink, one of the most gifted Mahler interpreters, conducts Mahler's 3rd with acclaimed british mezzo-soprano Carolyn Watkinson and the Royal ...

Michael Nyman is now one of the great composers of our time, who captivates above all with his richness of facets.

With his seven symphonies the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius marks a high point in the symphonic repertoire of the 20th century.

Paris Opera Ballet Master and choreographer Patrice Bart plunges into the Opera’s past and brings Degas’ famous statuette "The Little Fourteen-Year-Old ...

Michael Nyman, famous for his Oscar nominated film score for Jane Campion’s film “The Piano”, is without doubt one of the great contemporary composers. Fitting ...

Absolute Zero is one of Saburo Teshigawara's best known choreographies. It explores the complete motionlessness of 273 degrees below zero. Yet in dance ...

"Nederlands Dans Theater" stands for innovative dance theater on the cutting edge of our time. In collaboration with choreographer Jiří Kylián something ...

Anton Chekhov's drama interpreted by choreographer Maja Plissezkaja and the ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre, conducted by Alexander Lasarew. The seagull ...

A look at five pioneers of electronic music for whom work is their raison d'etre.

Dutch conductor and recorder player Frans Brüggen conducts Beethoven's 3rd with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, which he founded. The orchestra, which ...

Conducted by Zubin Mehta featuring the baritone Thomas Quasthoff, the Staatskapelle Dresden initiated its Mahler celebrations due the composer’s 150th ...

With choreographers Toer van Schayk and Wayne Eagling, the Dutch National Ballet succeeded in a breathtaking new interpretation of Tchaikovsky's famous ...