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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.

INTERKULTUR and the Rundfunkchor Berlin are hosting the Sing Along project »Sing Along Concert ONLINE« from May 4-10 under the artistic direction of Simon Halsey and will bring together singers from all over the world in a digital way in order to sing together from their homes.

Corresponding with the decision concerning the continuance of the COVID-19 measures in the Federal Republic of Germany by the federal government and the federal states from 15th April 2020, the »Fest der Chorkulturen« on 1st May 2020 can not take place.

With its new production »Time Travellers«, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and it’s conductor Gijs Leenaars embarks on a journey through time, creating the next project in their series of interdisciplinary performances including »human requiem« and »LUTHER dancing with the gods«. For four nights, a horizon is opened that the choir as well as the audience will travel together. Music by Dove, Brahms and Debussy, a media production by Nick & Clemens Prokop and choreography by Shang-Chi Sun will tell the story of the becoming and passing of all things of life.