A proud god madly in love and a shy nymph changing herself into a tree: the promise of exquisite scenes in the new Fux Opera Fest.

A proud god madly in love and a shy nymph changing herself into a tree: the promise of exquisite scenes in the new Fux Opera Fest.

There have been endless variations on the image of the Virgin Mary down the ages. And the same goes for the music composed in honour of her. The Arnold Schoenberg Choir transports us into these musical realms.

The saucy little blond, the lascivious Osmin, the loveable Papageno: Zefiro, the wind instrument comedians, bring them all to life in the Harmonie music arrangements of Mozart’s grand operas.

A proud god madly in love and a shy nymph changing herself into a tree: the promise of exquisite scenes in the new Fux Opera Fest.

Cameron Carpenter knows how to entertain, and his way of making Johann Sebastian Bach’s music sound fresh and exciting is simply irresistible.

The legendary King’s Singers have been around for 50 years and are as dynamic as ever. It never fails to fascinate when the King’s Singers cross from Renaissance madrigals to the Beatles, singing a-cappella all the way.

Vladimir Ivanoff and his musicians merge with the whirling dervishes somewhere between asceticism and ectasy. The setting is Paris around 1920, the world’s vibrant metropolis.

Gustav Schwab’s romantic translation of the many love stories in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses“ makes them especially moving. Peter Simonischek reads the finest of them, among others, the stories of Pan and Orpheus.