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It may have taken almost two centuries, but today Clara Schumann's star shines brighter than ever. Together with husband Robert. In this brand new documentary, we follow Clara Schumann's life through Europe - as a brilliant pianist, a wife with a keen sense of her fingertips, a mother of seven. And, not least, as a composer. A documentary recorded in connection with Clara Schumann's 200th anniversary in 2019.

The world out there on stages is a man's world. Or is that just what they want us to believe? What if the true King of Rock and Roll is a Queen? Listen closely and you hear Memphis Minnie's guitar in Chuck Berry and Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta's unbridled spirit in Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Mama Thornton's growl in Elvis. Still the fact that women rocked the stages from the1950s on has been successfully pushed out of the collective memory. Time to pull out the roots and tell the other side of the story. The women we meet on our journey devote their life's to rock music, each of them is an icebreaker and they are as inspiring as different. 'You have to be like a man. But I can do it, I am a woman with balls', is Linda Gail Lewis' Credo, while Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go's considers herself a 'rare bird'. Suzi Quatro proclaims that she doesn't do gender at all, while Rosie Flores emphasizes her female qualities when playing the guitar. And Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses decided to leave the sexist music business to be listener-supported, because: 'What would my kids think if I looked at every camera like I wanted to fuck it - as they tell you to do?'

"Silenced - Composers in Revolutionary Russia" looks at Russian composers of the early twentieth century and is the second part of the series "Music, War, and Revolution." The fates of young rebels such as Arthur Lourié, Nikolai Roslavets, Alexander Mosolov, Sergei Prokofiev and Leon Theremin or Arseny Avraamov reveal much about the early Soviet Union's cultural life, the hopeful and then tragic entanglement of art and politics to which so many artists fell victim during the First World War, the October Revolution, and the rule of Joseph Stalin. The film by Anne-Kathrin Peitz seeks to rediscover composers long banished and forgotten.

A disused submarine factory became the venue for the world premiere of the performance Adam's Passion, a stage version of music by 2023 Polar Prize winner Arvo Pärt. The performance was recorded in connection with Pärt's 80th birthday in 2015 and was directed by none other than the legendary director and artist Robert Wilson. Musically, Adam's Passion consists of four of Pärt's works; Adam's Lament, Tabula Rasa, Miserere and Sequentia. The conductor is Pärt's world-famous compatriot Tõnu Kaljuste, and over a hundred artists are on stage.

He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith - perhaps involuntarily - the impression of a recluse, which is attributed to him again and again: Arvo Pärt. In The Lost Paradise, we follow him over a period of one year in his native Estonia, to Japan and the Vatican. The documentary is framed by the stage production of Adam's Passion, a music theater piece based on the Biblical story of the fall of Adam featuring three key works by Arvo Pärt. The world-renowned director Robert Wilson has brought this work to the stage in a former submarine factory in Tallinn. Tracing their creative process, the film offers rare and personal insights into the worlds of two of the most fascinating personalities in the international arts and music scene.

Julia küsst den leblosen Romeo ein letztes Mal, dann ersticht sie sich - so endet diese Liebesgeschichte bei Shakespeare. Der französische Komponist Charles Gounod schliesst seine Oper "Roméo et Juliette" mit einem großen lyrischen Duett. Die Zürcher Neuproduktion präsentiert mit Julie Fuchs und Benjamin Bernheim ein stimmliches und darstellerisches Traumpaar. "Roméo et Juliette" ist nach "Faust" Gounods bedeutendste Oper. Sie wurde während der Pariser Weltausstellung 1867 uraufgeführt und war mit mehr als hundert Vorstellungen ein großer Publikumserfolg. Die Zürcher Neuproduktion präsentiert mit der Sopranistin Julie Fuchs und dem Tenor Benjamin Bernheim ein stimmliches und darstellerisches Traumpaar: Beide stammen aus Frankreich, haben ihre Karrieren am Opernhaus Zürich begonnen und gehören inzwischen zu den großen Namen in der internationalen Opernszene. Julie Fuchs, deren Auftritte für stimmliche Virtuosität, musikalische Intelligenz und eine stupende Bühnenpräsenz stehen, betritt im ersten Akt die Bühne mit einer der berühmtesten Arien: dem Walzer "Je veux vivre". Benjamin Bernheim hat auf seinem ersten Soloalbum mit der Roméo-Arie "Ah. Lève-toi, soleil" bereits bewiesen, wie sehr ihm die Partie des schwärmerisch-jugendlichen Liebhabers liegt. Für die szenische Interpretation kehrt der amerikanische Regisseur Ted Huffman zurück ans Opernhaus Zürich, wo er mit Puccinis "Madama Butterfly" bereits eine Liebestragödie eindringlich auf die Bühne gebracht hat.

The artist Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In the 1960s, well-known artists frequented her studio in Cologne's Lintgasse.

A documentary that explores John Cage's philosophy on experiencing sound and life.

Isabelle Faust (violin), Lucerne Festival Orchestra; conductor: Andris Nelsons.

Andreas Homoki realized this production in the middle of the pandemic, and its extraordinary premiere was celebrated with only 50 audience members in attendance and a huge television audience watching on Arte from their homes. Homoki created fleshed-out characters, as well as a clear and suspense-filled narrative arc. In order to facilitate the opera's multiple time periods, his production allowed for imaginary spaces of memory. Production title: Simon Boccanegra - Opernhaus Zürich (2021). Creation date: 06/12/2020. Work - Composer: Simon Boccanegra - Giuseppe Verdi. Opera house: Opernhaus Zürich.