• October 5 – 8, 2024
    Cologne

    Novoflot and Arnold Schönberg – A festival in Cologne

    In autumn 2024, the Berlin opera company Novoflot will come to Cologne and present four productions, including three world premieres, as part of the Arnold Schönberg cycle The Theory of Harmony, which it initiated.

    More about The Theory of Harmony here

    5 October 2024, 8 pm, WDR Funkhaus

    The Theory of Harmony #3:
    A Murdered from Warsaw

    (after theSurvivor from Warsaw by Arnold Schönberg)
    By Novoflot, Max Czollek and Michael Wertmüller
    In co-production with the Kunstfest Weimar, the Musikfestival Bern, the Kölner Philharmonie and the Theater in Delphi, Berlin.

    Tickets for A Murdered from Warsaw


    World premiere: 6 October 2024, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

    A Gurrelied

    By Novoflot and Arnold Schönberg
    Based on individual parts from Arnold Schönberg's large-scale oratorio "Gurre-Lieder" (1900–1903), Novoflot and film director Mirko Borscht develop a scenic-cinematic rewriting of the medieval tragedy of jealousy and confront Schönberg's late Romantic tonal language with cinematic portraits of desperate lovers from the 21st century.

    Tickets for A Gurrelied


    World premiere: 8 October 2024, 8 pm, Kölner Philharmonie

    The Schönberg Gala

    Arnold Schönberg will be 150 years old on 13 September 2024! A wonderful occasion to roll out the red carpet for this pioneering composer at the entrance to the Kölner Philharmonie. Together with the legendary singer Rosemary Hardy, the Norwegian actor Magne Brekke and the Cologne Asassello Quartet, among others, the artists of Novoflot will celebrate a glittering Schönberg gala (including an auction!) in the concert hall of the Philharmonie and flood all the music to be heard with air from other planets!

    Tickets for The Schönberg Gala


    World premiere: 8 October 2024, 9.30 pm, Rheintreppen at the Philharmonie

    Opera call: Desert music

    Arnold Schönberg's only opera "Moses and Aron" remained a fragment. As part of an opera call, Novoflot asked international composers for suggestions for the completion of the biblical music theatre. The result is a one-minute opera about the question of how the people led by Moses into the desert could continue. In a superimposition of sound installation and scenic interventions, this world premiere will take place in the open air on the Rhine steps right next to the Philharmonie.