ZeitGenuss_metamorphosis

Works by 

Olga Neuwirth, Gérard Pesson, Nahui Kim (UA), Johannes Schöllhorn, Artemi-Maria Gioti, Jennifer Walshe, Benjamin Britten and Wolfgang Rihm

Featuring

Ensemble for New Music of the University of music Karlsruhe 
conductor: Manuel Nawri
Students and teachers of the University of music Karlsruhe

in 1951, Benjamin Britten composed his "Six Metamorphoses after Ovid", inspired by a theme that has resonated for thousands of years. More than 2000 years earlier, Ovid created his "Metamorphoses" (8 AD) - a fluid cosmos full of mythical figures that transform into gods, animals, plants or stars. These transformations became the epic expression of a principle that characterises human existence like no other - nothing remains as it is. Man and the world are linked in a permanent process of becoming, an oscillation between forms, states and identities. "metamorphosis" draws attention to the beauty of transition - to those fleeting moments in which the unknown takes shape and the familiar reinvents itself.

ZeitGenuss - the festival for music of our time was founded in 2013 by the city and the Karlsruhe University of Music.

Further ZeitGenuss events 

22. until 26.10.2025 | zwiegespräche – dialogue
22.10.2025 | I am from nowhere  
23.10.2025 | hybrid processes 
23.10.2025 | the day fanny mendelssohn died 
24.10.2025 | sonic city  
24.10.2025 | wunden / ben rentz  
25.10.2025 | sonic city  
25.10.2025 | BETTER ME  
25.10.2025 | TURNS: eyes entangled  
26.10.2025 | speaking drums  

Details can be found here 
ZeitGenuss subpage of the cultural office