Chady ist nun Vater. Er ist auch der Sohn seines Vaters, der wiederum der Sohn seines Vaters ist. Er ist also der Enkel des Vaters seines Vaters. Der Vater seines Vaters war ebenfalls der Sohn seines Vaters, der wiederum der Sohn seines Vaters war. Der Vater ist also der Sohn und der Sohn der Vater. Ist Chady nun eher …
With the Prokofiev cycle, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich is continuing its collaboration with the Zurich Opera Orchestra, which began in 2023 with the Rachmaninov cycle. The first concert in this cycle is also the debut of Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino - who has just as many fans in the real concert world as he does …
Power, control and destructive greed – and a love that overcomes guilt and death – stand at the centre of this late-Romantic triptych. This evening places the three one-act operas by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov into a compelling field of tension with one another. Dmitri Tcherniakov, a master of radical …
Bobby Sparks II is a Grammy Award winning musician and producer steeped in gospel, funk, jazz and blues. He is a key architect behind Snarky Puppy’s signature sound and toured with musical giants including Prince, Marcus Miller, George Benson, Nancy Wilson and Natalie Cole among others. He was also as a core member of …
Da sind wir also. Drei Fremde finden sich in einem unbekannten Salon wieder: die Kosmopolitin Estelle, die Postangestellte Inès und der Journalist Garcin. Manchmal schaut noch ein sonderbarer Diener nach ihnen – oder ist es ihr Wächter? Was guckt er so? Und warum sind wir eigentlich hier? Raus geht’s nicht, die Tür …
All good things come in fours: after a family piece, a cello concerto and an orchestral work, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich is premiering another composition by Swiss composer David Philip Hefti. The Swedish soprano Lisa Larsson is also well known to Zurich audiences, particularly from her time in the opera house …
Artifacts Trio Nicole Mitchell – fl, elec | Tomeka Reid – clo | Mike Reed – dr With flutist Nicole Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Mike Reed, the Artifacts Trio brings together three outstanding figures of the Chicago jazz scene. Nicole Mitchell has repeatedly been named "Flutist of the Year" and was the …
DER ZAUBERER VON OZ von Bastian Kraft nach dem Roman von L. Frank Baum REGIE: Bastian Kraft **Performace in German** Ein Wirbelsturm zieht durch Kansas und reisst das Haus der jungen Dorothy, mit ihr darin, hinaus aus einer staubtrockenen Realität, hinein in das schillernde Land Oz. So glitzernd und bunt es dort auch …
Kader Tarhanine is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Tuareg music. Since his breakthrough with “Tarhanine Tegla: My Love Gone”, he has been blending the hypnotic rhythms of the Sahara with rock energy and poetic lyrics in Tamasheq and Arabic. A virtuoso guitarist and charismatic performer, he captivates …
Girls, get ready. Sartres Klassiker Huis Clos dient den Regisseur*innen Klamydia von Karma und Milky Diamond als Grundlage für eine – sagen wir – lose Inspiration, die uns anstatt des höllengleichen Hotelzimmers in den Backstage eines glamourös schäbigen Drag-Clubs in Zürichs Unterwelt führt: der DEVIANT DISCO. …
Under the name Nana-Benz (“The Mothers with the Benz”), a group of Togolese women became well known from the 1980s onward. As traders of printed textiles, they were so successful that they “turned their country into a hub of the textile trade in West Africa.” They symbolized the economic, social, and political status …
Elektra relentlessly summons the past—her trauma and her burning desire for revenge: her father Agamemnon, scarcely returned from the Trojan War, lies dead, murdered in the bath by her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Richard Strauss composed music of searing force, profound and relentless, granting none …
With her debut album Milena Patagônia is embarking on the "DIJASPORA BABY" club tour. Together with Dashcam*Devi (formerly of Hatepop), she has created trilingual (CH-DE/BKMS/EN) music that dramatically, self-deprecatingly, and resolutely explores a unique diasporic world. Milena Patagônia switches seamlessly between …
At his last appearance in Zurich, the Brit Wayne Marshall amazed and delighted the audience with his improvisations on Christmas carols - what he has in mind this time is still open. What is certain is that this year's focus artist will explore everything that the Kuhn organ, his imagination and his rich experience …
With "Das Rheingold", Richard Wagner opens his monumental "Der Ring des Nibelungen": a mythological world theatre about power, love and the loss of innocence. Whoever renounces love gains power. This fateful law draws both Alberich and Wotan, the father of the gods, into the spell of the cursed ring. From the famous …
This concert features a premiere, a second - and two popular and famous works. Lukas Sternath, a student of Igor Levit and hailed by the press as the "great hope of the international pianist scene", plays Schumann's Piano Concerto in his first appearance with the Tonhalle- Orchester Zürich. And Tugan Sokhiev, who was …
