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Rundfunkchor Berlin has released the documentary of its trans-disciplinary concert installation THE WORLD TO COME – A festive mass after Ludwig van Beethoven's »Missa solemnis«. The 25-minute documentary invites you to immerse yourself in the multi-layered structure of the polyphonic sound worlds developed by Tilman Hecker with the Rundfunkchor Berlin for the event at Voll-gutlager and SchwuZ Berlin. The video is available on the Youtube channel of the Rundfunkchor Berlin.

Principal conductor Gijs Leenaars and choir director Hans-Hermann Rehberg presented the 2021/22 season at the Rundfunkchor Berlin’s recent press conference. The programme for the new season is online. At the end of the 2021/22 season, Hans-Hermann Rehberg, who celebrates his 40th anniversary with the Rundfunkchor Berlin this month, will bid farewell as the ensemble's director. Rehberg's successor as choir director from August 2022 has been chosen already: Rachel-Sophia Dries was introduced to the public at last week's press conference.
For subscribers, advance ticket sales for the 2021/22 season will begin immediately. The official advance booking starts on 25 August 2021.

At the end of the current season, the Rundfunkchor Berlin presents a manifesto in the form of a brochure which stands at the intersection of the developments of the past and the plans for the coming months. Under the motto »Take off into new worlds«, the manifesto picks up on the current digitalisation drive and represents the permanent change that is shaping our work more than ever.

The musical core work as well as an exemplary tour through the concert installation of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, this is a festive mass based on Ludwig van Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", are now available as a listening experience on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

The Rundfunkchor Berlin is continuing its successful series of transdisciplinary projects with the centrepiece of the 2020/21 season: THE WORLD TO COME. Under the musical direction of chief conductor Gijs Leenaars the Rundfunkchor Berlin stages the next transdisciplinary project after the renowned “human requiem” und “LUTHER dancing with the gods”. Working from a concept and direction by Tilman Hecker and a composition by Birke J. Bertelsmeier THE WORLD TO COME combines contemporary musical trends with Beethoven's masterpiece in a concert installation. Together with the Rundfunkchor Berlin, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin artists Colin Self, Iwona Sobotka, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Moor Mother, and Planningtorock are taking the themes and music of Beethoven's mass as the starting point for an extraordinary musical journey into the world of tomorrow.