Alsterphilharmonie meets Elbphilharmonie

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In May, the Hamburg International Music Festival, HfMT and Elbphilharmonie are jointly producing three extraordinary projects. Visit this small trilogy of innovative collaborations

On Sunday, May 6, you can experience the third act, "Michael's Homecoming", from Karlheinz Stockhausen's monumental opera cycle "Light" at Kampnagel, which, with its 29 hours of performance time, puts even Wagner's "Ring" in the shade and has never been performed in its entirety. In seven parts named after the days of the week, it tells the story of human life and its relationship to the divine through the three archetypal figures of Eve, Michael and Lucifer.

Pedro González, a multimedia student at the HfMT, won the competition initiated by the HfMT Career Center on the subject of utopia with his innovative concert concept "Starlings over the Cloud". The result will be presented to the public on two evenings: On May 13 in Kaistudio 1 of the Elbphilharmonie and on May 18 in the Barmbek Zinnschmelze.

The cruel story of the beautiful and virtuous Lucretia is part of the founding myth of the Roman Republic. Immediately after the Second World War, the English composer Benjamin Britten devoted himself to the Lucretia story and created a sensual tonal language of moving intensity in his first chamber opera "The Rape of Lucretia". The work will be performed by the University Symphony Orchestra and students from the vocal classes under the direction of Ulrich Windfuhr on May 25 in the Forum of the HfMT.

Dates and details in our calendar of events.