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Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati (conductor) Reinhold Messner (narrator) Frederic Wake-Walker (concept and director) Richard Strauss 1864 - 1949 Eine Alpensinfonie Berlin, Tempodrom, 2021 Recorded at Berlin’s Tempodrom, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and its chief conductor Robin Ticciati present Richard Strauss’s ‘An Alpine Symphony’ as a musical and philosophical mountain hike with the legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner. The concert leads us through the Alps, lets the audience pass flowering meadows en route, through thickets and underbrush, over mountain pastures and glaciers to the summit, and finally the descent surrounded by thunderstorms. Messner provides insights into the physical and psychological borderline experiences of his mountain ascents and speaks about extreme situations, the perception of nature, and his mental state on the night before departure, during the conquest of the peak, during the long, onerous descent and the exhausted, contented return home. Directed by Andreas Morell

Médée ‘Tragédie en musique’ in a prologue and five acts by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 1704) Libretto by Thomas Corneille First performance in Paris, Opéra, 4 December 1693 Concert version Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (Conductor) Véronique Gens (Médée) Cyrille Dubois (Jason) Judith van Wanroij (Créuse) Thomas Dolié (Créon) David Witczak (Oronte) Hélène Carpentier (La Victoire / Nérine / l’Amour) Adrien Fournaison (Le Chef du peuple / Un habitant / Un Argien / La Vengeance) Floriane Hasler (Bellone) David Tricou (Un berger / Le premier Corinthien / Un Argien / Le troisième captif / Un démon / Le troisième fantôme) Fabien Hyon (Un berger / Arcas / Le deuxième Corinthien / La Jalousie) Jehanne Amzal (Une Italienne / Cléone / 1re bergère / 1re captive / 1er fantôme) Marine Lafdal-Franc (La Gloire / 2e bergère / 2e captive / 2e fantôme) Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 27 March 2023 Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (Conductor) Véronique Gens (Médée) Cyrille Dubois (Jason) Judith van Wanroij (Créuse) Thomas Dolié (Créon) David Witczak (Oronte) Hélène Carpentier (La Victoire / Nérine / l’Amour) Adrien Fournaison (Le Chef du peuple / Un habitant / Un Argien / La Vengeance) Floriane Hasler (Bellone) David Tricou (Un berger / Le premier Corinthien / Un Argien / Le troisième captif / Un démon / Le troisième fantôme) Fabien Hyon (Un berger / Arcas / Le deuxième Corinthien / La Jalousie) Jehanne Amzal (Une Italienne / Cléone / 1re bergère / 1re captive / 1er fantôme) Marine Lafdal-Franc (La Gloire / 2e bergère / 2e captive / 2e fantôme) Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 27 March 2023

Closed - A Ballet from Real Life Many people live in a closed world. What happens to them when they step onto an arena where they can be themselves, free of their usual roles and status? In the film ‘Closed’ we encounter four completely different people who once a week leave their everyday lives and get together in a closed café, where they get the opportunity and help to relax and momentarily distance themselves from reality. These encounters have a certain touch of ritual to them. Then, an alien element is introduced: A famous musician, the cellist Truls Mørk, has been given the proprietor’s permission to rehearse a piece that he will later play in town. The music, Zoltan Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello Op. 8, is intense and riveting and affects all four of them to an extent that has consequences for them all. The whole thing ends in mayhem, which perhaps was necessary for them all to be able to move on with their lives. Even the café gets a new lease of life, with a new proprietor. Directed by Stein-Roger Bull, Jo Strømgren 2017

Mozart: The Great Mass Uwe Scholz (choreography) Leipziger Ballett Eun Yee You (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Friedemann Röhlig (bass) Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Chorus of the Leipzig Opera, Balázs Kocsár (conductor) Directed by Hans Hulscher

Dialogues II A Sort of... Mats Ek | choreography Clotilde Tran-Phat, Johnny McMillan | dancers Henryk Górecki | music Ellen Ruge | lighting Geber | costumes We Are But Shadows Akram Khan | choreography Xiaoyi Hua, Claudio Cangialosi | dancers Mavin Khoo | scénographie Mud of Sorrow : U Lamentu di Ghjesù (Nina Harries and Raaheel Hussain), Do You Remember? (Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan / Camilo Tirado, Sound Engineer), Unfinished: Flight from the City (Jóhann Jóhannsson) | music Into the Hairy Sharon Eyal | choreography Johnny McMillan, Juan Gil | dancers Gai Behar | associate choreographer Koreless | original music Maria Grazia Chiuri – Christian Dior Couture | costumes Alon Cohen | lighting design Couch Samantha Lynch | choreography and set design Anaïs Touret, Douwe Dekkers | dancers Georges Bizet | music Bregje van Balen | costumes Paul Vidar Sævarang | lighting Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, April 26, 2025