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Donatienne Michel-Dansac is great in the lead at the Ostrava Days new music festival, leering, boasting and swaggering convincingly as the former US President. 

Comprised of some 60 musicians from 16 countries, the Ostrava New Orchestra paint pictures of prisons and caves, gardens and machines, in works by students and 20th-century masters.

Heart Chamber explores how small outer events often correspond to tectonic inner changes.

Requiring trained opera singers to focus primarily on acting and asking actors to sing in a renowned opera house puts everyone out of their comfort zone, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

The Klangforum Wien has had its own row of subscription concerts at the Konzerthaus for the past 22 seasons, and a constant during that time has been the regular programming of Austrian composers.

Mit verblüffend amüsantem Programm eröffnete das Ultraschall Festival in Berlin und sorgte für Begeisterung unter den Hörern.

Das Warten und der Tod standen im Mittelpunkt des 5. Philharmonischen Konzertes Heidelberg, bei dem die zeitgenössischen Komponistin Chaya Czernowin mit dem Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis 2016 ausgezeichnet wurde.

In Zeiten der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung hat Lulu den Blues, den Della Miles als Eleanor (Gräfin Geschwitz) singt. Viel zu hören, viel zum Nachdenken.