Get in touch with Armin Luttenberger and Marion Camus-Oberdorferand join the Avant Première Online Market Screenings for a showcase of our colorful program line-up on Wednesday, February 16 (Block 6: 11.30 am – 1:15 pm).
Sound of Winter: A Winter Journey
Concert | 115 min.
The production combines the visual impressions of the breathtaking landscape of the Hohe Tauern National Park with one of the most important works of Austrian music history: Franz Schubert "Winter Journey".
In the tradition of the Vienna salon of the 18th and 19th century, multi-talent André Heller invites hand-picked audiences to house concerts of a special kind.
This year’s cloud of sound presents “Vespers of the Blessed Virgin” from styriarte 2021, with choral works by Handel, Fux and Vivaldi, and conducted by Jordi Savall.
The Zurich Affair - Richard Wagner's One and Only Love
Drama | 105 min.
More than 170 years ago, Richard Wagner is working on his new opera “Tristan and Isolde” in Zurich. The Tristan chord shall serve as a description of the times and Mathilde Wesendonck is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music. The whole city is talking about the Zurich liaison.
Star tenor Richard Tauber, who was celebrated around the world, was hounded off the stage by the Nazis. He escaped persecution by chance – but he lost all of his fortune and his homeland.
Johann Strauss’ musical masterpiece and one of his most performed operettas is a cheerful cat-and-mouse game about the pampered and overindulged Duke of Urbino.
