Singer

"A reinvention of music theatre" – thus Klangforum Wien’s first concertante-performative meta-opera, an energetically charged foray through the operatic literature of the past 100 years, was hailed enthusiastically. Starting with Zemlinsky, via Sciarrino and Saunders, all the way to Xenakis, the spectrum covers nothing less than love in all its potentialities and impossibilities. Together with the Needcompany, the musicians present themselves as a lively collective of performers, wholeheartedly and powerfully on stage. Italian premiere.

transart Festival: Amopera

Ex-Masten, Bolzano

Works by Paul Hindemith, Lisa Streich and Benjamin Scheuer

Hindemith-Award

Verein für Baukultur Kiel e.V.

A woman finds herself on the verge of death when a seemingly endless cascade of questions comes pouring out of her, all directed toward a beloved, coveted and absent Other. With these are memories of a life well lived, of the longing for love and sex, of the faltering of her yearning and the tragedy of death behind it. The woman breaks down into four different facets of her own personality, each depicted by a different performer, representing the various perspectives and viewpoints of one individual. What forms is a web of interconnections between seeing and being seen, touching and being touched, feeling and being felt, understanding and being understood. It is a sensual play about sex, the body, love and death – with a surprising ending. LASH is the first opera by celebrated German-British composer Rebecca Saunders. With it, she is creating a work about the base, existential experiences of the human body that we spend our lives in and with which we experience and comprehend the world around us. The work is based on the strikingly pictorial texts of video artist and writer Ed Atkins.

Lash

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Our honorary conductor Iván Fischer is a guarantee for unusual programmes. This time, he and the Konzerthausorchester will perform works by four composers who were ostracised and persecuted by the National Socialists and whose works shaped the avant-garde of the interwar period. Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler found their way to the United States via detours, but Erwin Schulhoff was interned in Prague, deported and died of tuberculosis in a camp in Bavaria.

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Iván Fischer

Konzerthaus Berlin

With Luciano Berio's song cycle Folk Songs, a tribute to the mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, and two characteristic and groundbreaking compositions from Pierre Boulez's oeuvre, the festival debut at the Tokyo Spring Festival marks the 100th anniversary of these two landmark composers. In addition, Philippe Manoury has developed a deep relationship with Japanese musical life. His Passacaille pour Tokyo is a reimagination of musical form in the spirit of Boulez.

Tokyo Harusai Spring Festival: Boulez & Berio 100

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

"A reinvention of music theatre" – thus Klangforum Wien’s first concertante-performative meta-opera, an energetically charged foray through the operatic literature of the past 100 years, was hailed enthusiastically. Starting with Zemlinsky, via Sciarrino and Saunders, all the way to Xenakis, the spectrum covers nothing less than love in all its potentialities and impossibilities. Together with the Needcompany, the musicians present themselves as a lively collective of performers, wholeheartedly and powerfully on stage.

EPSG:4326

Amopera

Daegu Opera House

Wiener Konzerthaus

Hong Kong Arts Festival: Amopera

Hong Kong Cultural Center

Camerata Pacifica artists are representative of the world’s finest, bringing to our stage their highly individual personalities for dynamic performances of music that span the huge, eclectic range of the chamber music repertoire.

Camerata Pacifica Presents: Morciano, Gershwin, Weill, Debussy, Schoenberg

Colburn School

The Minguet Quartet's programs are not just chamber music of the highest caliber, but always also an invitation to the audience to engage in dialogue and participation. The four musicians have already committed themselves to this with their ensemble's name: their namesake is the Spanish writer and music educator Pablo Minguet, who strove in his writings to provide access to the fine arts for all. The fourth chamber concert also features works from different eras in dialogue with each other: the concert begins in a truly classical style with one of the last quartets by Joseph Haydn, the inventor of the string quartet; at the end, we hear Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2, nothing less than a milestone in New Music – the transition to atonality. Tradition and modernity also converge in the works of the Romantics Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, as they are performed in the transcription by Aribert Reimann, one of the most distinguished composers of the second half of the 20th century, who died in 2024. The quartet also enters into dialogue with soprano Sarah Maria Sun, who is also known for her profound program ideas and as a specialist in contemporary music: she has already sung more than 400 world premieres.

Dialogues

CityPalais

An exciting concert for us, offering plenty of creative freedom for individual orchestra members and fresh musical perspectives. We welcome Jörg Widmann, a versatile artist, to the conductor's podium, as he is both a soloist and composer of some of the pieces. He once gave such a wonderful answer to the question of how important live music is that "especially in the age of technical reproducibility and the accessibility of music anytime, anywhere in the world, the human being singing and playing on stage in the moment, without a safety net, is able to captivate and fascinate us more than ever." We look forward to playing with him and begin this cleverly conceived program with an orchestral journey to Scotland, where we capture the legendary landscape of a Hebridean island with the atmosphere of "salt air, cod liver oil, and seagulls" that Mendelssohn envisioned. 

Visiting Fürth

City Theatre Fürth

An exciting concert for us, offering plenty of creative freedom for individual orchestra members and fresh musical perspectives. We welcome Jörg Widmann, a versatile artist, to the conductor's podium, as he is both a soloist and composer of some of the pieces. He once gave such a wonderful answer to the question of how important live music is that "especially in the age of technical reproducibility and the accessibility of music anytime, anywhere in the world, the human being singing and playing on stage in the moment, without a safety net, is able to captivate and fascinate us more than ever.

Soprano

Sarah Maria Sun

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 18, 2026

Dialogues · Duisburger Philharmoniker

Feb 13, 2026

Visiting Fürth · Bamberger Symphoniker

Feb 14, 2026

Jörg Widmann, Ilian Garnetz, Sarah Maria Sun, Barbara Bode · Bamberger Symphoniker

Past events

Sep 17, 2025

transart Festival: Amopera · Klangforum Wien

Aug 11, 2025

Hindemith-Award · Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Der Schwanendreher by Hindemith

Konzerthausorchester Berlin

Singer in Pierrot lunaire by Schönberg

Colburn School

Singer in Der Abschiedsbrief by Weill

Colburn School

Singer in Six Songs by Schumann

Duisburger Philharmoniker

Singer in Selected Songs by Weill

Konzerthausorchester Berlin

Singer in Die stille Stadt by Weill

Colburn School

Singer in It Never Was You by Weill

Colburn School

Singer in Five Ophelia Songs by Brahms

Duisburger Philharmoniker

Singer in Passacaille pour Tokyo by Manoury

Klangforum Wien

Singer in Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Berio

Klangforum Wien

Singer in Le Marteau sans maître by Boulez

Klangforum Wien

Singer in The Hebrides or Fingal's Cave by Bartholdy

Bamberger Symphoniker

Singer in Paraphrase on Mendelssohn's Wedding March by Widmann

Bamberger Symphoniker

Singer in Essay on the Fugue by Widmann

Bamberger Symphoniker

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