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NEXT UP is a new live concert format from SENMBELEK, hosted by the internationally successful reggae artist Cali P. The goal of the evening is to provide the next generation of Swiss artists with a stage where they can showcase their talents alongside a live band.  Featuring Altea, Theylovepiet, Candela, K4desh & R4hem, and Svmtox, the evening brings together some of Switzerland’s most exciting up-and-coming voices. All acts will be accompanied live by Gents Music.  Spanning hip-hop, R&B, Afrobeats, dancehall, … [more]

Musical conversations among the musicians, which seek to express what is difficult to put into words: Niculin Janett Quartet's fourth album, Toxicology Report, embodies the bands symbiotic, almost dreamlike interplay. The music processes and reflects times of change. Remaining true to himself, Niculin Janett – as always – does so with a wink, allowing not only the heavy, but also the absurd and amusing aspects of the inner and outer worlds to find expression. Janett’s compositions are thus also a … [more]

The Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final is coming to Zurich on 24 October 2026, and the city will become a hub for the international street dance scene as early as the week before. As part of Dance Week, the Schiffbau in Zurich will host a diverse programme centred on street dance, including side events for the community and anyone interested, as well as the pre-finals, which will bring the week to a close. National winners from many countries … [more]

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 der Sohn oder der Vater? Nach dem Roman «Nachrichten an meinen Sohn» von Alejandro Zambra. [more]

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 de-romanticisation, stages an unflinching study of human abysses. Gianandrea Noseda conducts these three works, which are rarely performed together. [more]

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 Roy Hargrove’s band "The RH Factor". In a monumental display of his immense musical talent, his latest album "Paranoia" sees Sparks orchestrate a two hour funk … [more]

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 ist zu und selbst die Klingel für den Diener funktioniert nicht! So heisst es ausharren in diesem schrecklich schicken Käfig, doch dabei lässt es sich den bohrenden Blicken … [more]

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 first woman to serve as president of the legendary AACM. Tomeka Reid has given the cello a new voice in jazz. She received the Doris Duke … [more]

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 ist, sucht Dorothy fortan den Weg zurück nach Hause. Ein Ort, der scheinbar unerreichbar geworden ist. Was ist eigentlich dieses Zuhause, das nicht nur Dorothy, sondern vielleicht … [more]

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 audiences far beyond the borders of the Sahel. Having collaborated with renowned artists such as Oumou Sangaré, Fatoumata Diawara and Sidiki Diabaté, Kader Tarhanine has established himself as a leading … [more]

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. Umgeben von einer Wundertüte aus Substanzen, Sekreten, Sextoys, schmutzigen Spiegeln, wie flamboyantem Rausch, wird die Fehde zwischen der jungen, aufstrebenden Queen Klamydia und der alternden Legende Milky plötzlich von einem namenlosen Muskelpaket unterbrochen. Es … [more]

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 they gained through this success by purchasing luxury vehicles, primarily of the Mercedes-Benz brand. They are regarded as the first female millionaires on the African continent. To … [more]

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 of the characters redemption until Elektra’s ecstatic final dance. Following her visually powerful Der Rosenkavalier at the Zurich Opera House, director Lydia Steier now turns to Strauss’s darker counterpart. At the podium is the Lausanne-born … [more]

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 languages, wears a costume made from her Baba Olga’s crochet work, raps softly, sings with crystal-clear vocals, and draws her audience right into her futuristic Balkan pop universe. [more]

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 depths of E-flat major unfolds a world suspended between natural idyll and moral decline. Andreas Homoki’s successful production returns under the musical direction of Gianandrea Noseda. Michael Volle … [more]