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Concerts, Performances, Installations, Discourse Formats

Tickets for “MELENCOLIA” available from 14 November at 14:00

MaerzMusik 2025

MaerzMusik will take place from 21 to 30 March 2025 under the artistic direction of Kamila Metwaly. The 24th festival edition will open with the multimedia music theatre production “MELENCOLIA – A Show Against the Indifference of the Universe” by Brigitta Muntendorf and Moritz Lobeck at Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The work, commissioned by the Bregenz Festival and Ensemble Modern, will celebrate its German premiere at MaerzMusik in cooperation with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Immersed in 3D soundscapes, performers from Ensemble Modern and the Apollo Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden take listeners into a deep exploration of enigmatic, melancholic worlds where reality and virtuality are combined on stage.

Further multidisciplinary projects as well as current compositions for percussion will be presented over the following nine festival days: the new work “Streik” for ten drumsets by Enno Poppe, “POETICA” by Chaya Czernowin and Steven Schick for Les Percussions de Strasbourg and “Minor Characters” by Jennifer Walshe and Matthew Shlomowitz with Ensemble Nikel. In addition to the New York ensemble Yarn/Wire and the performance duo Nguyễn + Transitory, the programme also includes current works by Mark Barden and Ligia Lewis.

Tickets for “MELENCOLIA” are available from 14 November at 14:00. Advance ticket sales for further programme highlights will start on 9 January. The complete festival programme will be published in February.

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About MaerzMusik

MaerzMusik sees itself as a place to exchange artistic knowledge(s) through new encounters and collective experiences. The festival is rooted in the multimodality of listening, contemporary music, and sound, employing concerts, performances, installations, music theatre, film screenings, and discursive formats to open up a space where life, art, and theory can co-exist.

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