FINALLY OPEN AGAIN!

"It's practically a fantasy story," says director Christian Poewe about Handel's opera Rinaldo, which was first performed in London over 310 years ago. And he immediately threw himself into adapting the inspiring material for our opera class with gusto.

"Although Rinaldo is a crusader in the fight against the Saracens and is considered invincible, the heroic story told here is about a man's struggle and journey to find his lost love." In the process, the desperate and doubting seeker encounters sorceresses and magicians as well as traumas and demons, whom his imagination makes appear to him in a kind of delirium as resurrected beings from the realm of the dead. A morbid game that leaves us wandering between fiction and reality.

Together with Handel's wonderfully emotional and virtuoso music, we have the perfect mixture for a brilliant reopening of the Forum. The A premiere is on June 6. Eight further performances will follow. Please be sure to book tickets in advance, as there is no box office.

Alster on the outside - jazz on the inside. With the tireless and long-standing support of the Dr. E. A. Langner Foundation, we have made the vision of the JazzHall a reality in recent years and have just completed the building. The first rehearsal concerts have shown us that something very special has been created here in terms of architecture, sound and atmosphere.

We want to celebrate that! But the opening of the new magnificent building needs more hustle and bustle than a hand-picked number of guests in a cautious get-together without a bar. That's why we have postponed the opening festival, which has already been prepared and eagerly awaited, until next year.

Instead, our opening trailer gives you a first taste of the new hall and what will be possible there in the future. Streaming Premiere with Nils Landgren, China Moses and the HfMT Big Band, among others, is on June 17. Take a look at the new website jazzhall.de, which already shows a few glimpses of the interior, and look forward to upcoming concerts that we will be hosting here from the end of June.

"Contemplatio is a journey through the mysticism of the three monotheistic world religions," says Mohamed Ali Ponte. That sounds like heavy material, easily summarized for a one-hour concert format and yet: sophisticated and complex, cheerful and approachable are united here on a grand scale. Everything comes together and seeks to merge: old and new, Orient and Occident, musical styles, space, light and time as well as people of diverse origins. With his work, Mohammed is one of the winners of this year's CLAB Hybrid.

To whet your appetite, we recommend a short teaser, as it reveals much more than a thousand words. In short contributions, the participants report on the joint work and the intercultural exchange they experienced. "And before you know it, you come back from such a rehearsal phase very enriched and with a much greater wealth of knowledge," reports cellist Kathrin Herwanger.

The concert will be streamed live from the resonanzraum on June 18. After the performance, you can chat with the likeable artists at the virtual bar.

CLAB Hybrid is a project within the framework of Concert LAB / Stage_2.0, funded by the federal-state initiative "Innovative University"

Her plays are characterized by a merciless look at the abysses of human existence. With radical poetry, the British playwright dedicated her work to love, violence, tenderness, hope and ultimately the hell within herself, which led her to commit suicide at the age of 28.

The scenic exploration of Kane's texts quickly leads to the limits of what can be performed: Bodies are dismembered, the unity of space and time can collapse at any time, and what seems unspeakable is simply said. Now the directing, dramaturgy and acting students of the HfMT as well as the costume design and stage design students of the HAW and HfBK are confronting these limits in their third study project on the large studio stage of the newly opened Wiesendamm of the University of Music and Drama.
We will show you the six productions between June 16 and 20, the premieres will also be broadcast as livestreams.