Conductor

The Austrian ensemble Musicabanda Franui, which combines chamber music with band, meets the Australian circus company Circa: they share a love of the music of Gustav Mahler and a talent for poetic productions. In "Primal Light," people fly almost weightlessly across the stage, moving in graceful choreographies. Franui discovers new facets of Mahler's songs.

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Musicband Franui / Circa Circus Company

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Liederabend Boesch · Musicbanda Franui

House for Mozart

The Austrian music band Franui sees itself as a "transformer station between classical and folk music, jazz and contemporary chamber music". In order to release that resulting energy in Stuttgart, Franui has taken on the greatest hits of the so-called "silver operetta" – those works whose composers were driven out of Germany by the National Socialists (Nazis). Experiences of exile and loss, dreams and hopes connect the fates of composers like Paul Abraham with the characters in Joseph Roth's novel Hotel Savoy. Displaced persons without hope or money, soldiers, evil profiteers, real and fake artists and prostitutes have taken up residence in the hotel and await the arrival of billionaire Bloomfield from America – as of the Messiah. But Bloomfield has something completely different in mind than saving the hotel or its illustrious guests ...

Hotel Savoy

Schauspiel Stuttgart

Die Schöne Müllerin

Salzburger Festspiele

Conductor

Andreas Schett

Events

Past events

May 28, 2026

Musicband Franui / Circa Circus Company · Elbphilharmonie

Aug 12, 2025

Liederabend Boesch · Musicbanda Franui · Salzburger Festspiele

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Die Schöne Müllerin by Schubert

Salzburger Festspiele

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