Name: 4th Symphony Concert
Start: 2025-12-06T20:00:00
Location: Staatstheater Mainz

Gabriel Venzago

Ludwig Berger

Staatstheater Mainz

Anyone who has ever experienced a silent film with live music will never forget it. It is a powerful experience to allow the now historic film images to enter into dialogue with live music. What was once common is now a rarity, even though there is a small but very active community of experts and enthusiasts in German-speaking countries who, in addition to repertoire classics like Metropolis or Nosferatu , also celebrate films that are often largely unknown today. Preserving and archiving this fragile film material is a race against time: The film reels, now 100 years old or more, are often damaged by environmental influences or improper storage, are sometimes only partially preserved, and are scattered in remote attics all over the world. The music for the respective films is often completely lost - which makes it all the more important that there are numerous initiatives that have set themselves the goal of making the silent film genre accessible to the public again in all its stylistic breadth and with newly composed music.