Anja Bihlmaier

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Sep 08 2025

Debut beim Musikfest Berlin in der Berliner Philharmonie

The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and conductor Anja Bihlmaier embark on a parodistic adventure: Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s sarcastic ballet music focused on Roi Ubu is a colourful potpourri of musical quotations. Shostakovich was expected to compose a victory symphony, but his composition was met with disapproval from the Stalinist regime: “There was no choir, no soloists and no apotheosis – not a trace of adulation for the great hero,” commented the composer. Peter I. Tchaikovsky acknowledges the music of Mozart in his “Rococo Variations” featuring the young dynamic cellist Kian Soltani. The American composer and jazz musician Olly Wilson is inspired by African and Afro-diasporan traditions which are interwoven with his own musical identity in his “Shango Memory”.

Auf einer Bühne stehen Personen in Kostümen, die mit bemaltem Papier beklebt sind, wie in einem Comic.