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The 2020 Musikfest Berlin takes place from 29 August to 23 September and, together with Berlin-based orchestras and international guest orchestras and ensembles, will present a programme that focuses on works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Rebecca Saunders and Heiner Goebbels.

Sales for selected events start on 28 November 2019. The complete programme will be published in March 2020.

The 2019 Musikfest Berlin

More than 39,000 visitors enjoyed a varied programme at the 2019 Musikfest Berlin! The programme presented a wide spectrum of French music, starting with Hector Berlioz in honour of his 150th birthday, through Rameau, Honegger, Varèse, Messiaen, Xenakis and Grisey and ending with contemporary European composers: Peter Eötvös, Olga Neuwirth, Louis Andriessen and Helmut Lachenmann. Our recap-video will take you back!

Berliner Festspiele Blog

Musikfest Berlin 2019

Read more about the orchestras, conductors and composers of this year’s festival edition: with articles on Olga Neuwirth, Hector Berlioz und François-Xavier Roth, among others.

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The Musikfest Berlin

Musikfest Berlin sees itself as a forum for the innovative creative work carried out by large-scale orchestras and ensembles in the genre of classical and modern music. It presents an ambitious festival programme with alternating focal points.
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Immersion

Diamante

Mariano Pensotti / Grupo Marea
Theatre
16, 17, 20, 22, 23 & 24 November 2019

For six hours, spectators move through the fictional Argentinian village Diamante and connect the scenes together that are being performed in parallel at different locations into a play of their own: A unique form of Gesamtkunstwerk combining acting, installation and music.

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Film Series

Sundays for Hong Kong

Until 15 December 2019

In the light of the Hong Kong protests, the series gathers emblematic documentaries and feature film about the city and its inhabitants which help to understand why Hong Kong is a portent of many of the challenges contemporary democracies are facing today.

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Gropius Bau

Walking Through Walls

Exhibition
Until 19 January 2020

“Walking Through Walls” marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most symbolic events of the 20th century, interrogating the experience of vulnerability and anxiety caused by power structures that thrive on confinement and segregation.