“At a time when the livelihood of artists is fundamentally threatened, they must use their resources in a creative way to find and invent a way out of this crisis“, says baritone Dietrich Henschel about his new opera project COSÍ.20 – Love is Contagious. Mozart's famous opera Così fan tutte, this cynical bet placed on human immorality, examined in an experiment, dissected and seen through a microscope, provides the artist collective ĀRT HOUSE OPERA with the ideal foil for opera in times of social distancing. In their theatrical field study, Dietrich Henschel and stage director Thomas Höft socially separate all players of COSÍ.20 for an intense psycho-experiment, first shown at Lockenhaus Castle from 31 July to 2 August. Will isolation succeed or will it destroy any kind of relationship? Can the contactless exchange of emotions remain free from pain?...

Anssi Karttunen is adamantly against monotony. To stimulate more diversity in programme planning, the cellist now offers ideas for alternatives. On his "Instead List" for cello, he pairs a rarely played work worth listening to with every well know piece....

One year ago, Karsten Witt met the editors of the monthly magazine KreuzbergWelten for an interview about the 15^th anniversary of karsten witt musik management. In this second interview, in the midst of the Corona crisis, Karsten Witt was asked about the state of artist management in times of great insecurity and a fundamental existential threat to the whole culture industry....

"Sometimes everything just comes together!" said the enthusiastic jury of the German Record Critics' Award regarding the recording of Philippe Manoury's Le temps, mode d’emploi. The Grau Schumacher Piano Duo has been awarded the coveted Critics' Prize for this recording; the award ceremony was originally planned as part of a concert in the musica viva series featuring Andreas Grau, Götz Schumacher, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Herkulessaal Munich – which now had to be cancelled.Otto Paul Burkhardt took a closer look at the duo’s work. We publish his portrait with the kind permission of the author and the Südwest Presse....