Trailer: Drawing the City. Paper-based works from 1945 to the Present
A fascination with the modern city experienced by artists from all over the world has always been a vibrant, finger-on-pulse theme in the art produced in Berlin since 1945.
Alone in the Museum – 2nd season
The corona lockdown enters into its second round and calls for everyone renouncing quite a lot. European museum curators have opened their houses once more exclusively for ARTE. Every episode is a school of visual appreciation in which each curator shows just one picture, taking us on a fascinating discovery tour. Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Cercles […]
Xavier de Maistre and the Harp
Xavier de Maistre is a fighter, a seeker, almost obsessed with his plan to establish the harp as a solo instrument in today’s concert world as it is more than just a shiny gold instrument in the orchestra or an accompanying instrument that is beautiful to look at. It is a serious solo instrument on […]
Rivalry in Music – Callas vs Tebaldi
Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi were the two most celebrated artists of the second half of the last century. Made into hostile enemies by their admirers, the two became untouchable goddesses of the opera.To their fans, Callas was known as “the tigress”, Tebaldi as “the voice of an angel”: the two singers could have hardly […]
Trailer: Rigoletto
Rigoletto incites the dissolute Duke to constantly seduce and abduct beautiful women, treating their families with derision. He is then cursed before the entire court by the distraught father of a woman he has dishonoured. Rigoletto, however, hides his daughter Gilda from the shameless goings-on. Nonetheless, the Duke has his eye on her. When Gilda […]
Rivalry in Music – Furtwängler vs. Toscanini
Two men without whom the profession of conductor wouldn’t be what it is today. Two men who couldn’t have been any more different from each other: Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler. One of them was a visionary, rigorously faithful to the musical score, the other with his radical subjectivity was recognised even in his lifetime […]
