Performances in this series:
Carnival, Nikolaisaal Potsdam
4:00 pm, Wed 28 May 2025
Carnival, Brucknerhaus Linz, Austria
Various times, Mon 2 June 2025
Carnival, Kissinger Sommer
7:30 pm, Thu 3 July 2025
Welcome to our carnival: an Orchestral Theatre staging of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, narrated by Birgit Minichmayr.
Our new production transforms the concert into a museum visit in Paris around 1900, in which the musicians and the instruments are sounding exhibits. Carnival is performed alongside a new work by Richard Ayres, which explores what happens when the carnival is over and just the performers are left. Do you dare enter?