Explosion

Concert cycle 2024/2025
We find ourselves in vast landscapes of our rapidly fragmenting planet and see all around us signs of an explosive impact from the future, which we are unable properly to decode. For the concert series EXPLOSION in the season 24/25, you can expect many world premieres, stylistic "flagrancy" and a meta-opera as a reinvention of music theatre. – Now also available as "Select Series in the Great Hall".

NEW: Select Series in the Great Hall

(Update) We are thrilled about the great demand for our subscription series EXPLOSION – now fully subscribed – and therefore, we have decided to launch a "select subscription" for our 3 concerts in the Great Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus – a unique opportunity for all who are eager to experience Klangforum Wien with 3 very diverse programmes:

Beat Furrer's essential contemporary music theater Begehren together with Cantando Admont, Wolfgang Mitterer's wild ride through the oeuvre of Johann Strauss II and our Amopera with the Belgian Needcompany – a traversal of impossible, intoxicating and enchanting love constellations, selected from the last 100 years of music theatre (Sarah Maria Sun, soprano; Holger Falk, baritone).

Inspire fresh enthusiasm for all things new amongst your friends, secure your personal subscription now for only EUR 62,- and join the 24/25 season with Klangforum Wien.

→ Book now: konzerthaus.at/klangforumNEU

The Main Series

In the course of seven concerts, Klangforum Wien portrays the powers inherent in a world on the brink – whether in the shape of the flickering beauty with which Pierre Boulez pursues an explosive amour fou, the intransigency with which Beat Furrer lends musical expression to the heightened despair of desire, the airiness with which Georg Friedrich Haas atomises the world of sounds, the darkness with which Clara Iannotta’s birds of paradise circle inside lost hearts, the boiling energies with which Alex Paxton imbues the ensemble’s musicians, Wolfgang Mitterer’s flagrant appropriation of the world of waltzes created by Johann Strauss II – or indeed of the explosive love constellations, drawn from the fund of 100 years of music theatre, in the innovative format of Amopera.

In the upcoming season, the passionate and fiery musical guidance will be provided by our two new Conductors in Residence Elena Schwarz and Vimbayi Kaziboni as well as by the conductors Tim Anderson, Sylvain Cambreling, Beat Furrer and Ingo Metzmacher.

TUTTI - Be part of our community!

Following each concert of this series, we invite our audience to share light refreshments* with the composers and interpreters at the Berio Hall Buffet or in the Main Foyer in order to drink to the performance, exchange ideas, ask questions and strengthen the communal spirit with Klangforum Wien.

* The costs of consumption is not included in the ticket price.

Subscription service & tickets

For inquiries regarding your subscription or ticket bookings, the dedicated team at the Wiener Konzerthaus will be happy to assist:

Ticket & Service Center Wiener Konzerthaus
‍Lothringerstraße 20, 1030 Vienna
T +43 (0)1 242 002
E ticket@konzerthaus.at

→ konzerthaus.at/klangforum

Programme

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Klangforum Wien Concert Cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus

riss

ARTIST Luigi Nono | Georg Friedrich Haas | Mark Andre CONDUCTOR Ingo Metzmacher
December 15, 2024 7:00 PM
19:00
Uhr
Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall, Vienna
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2024
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December 15, 2024 7:00 PM
Klangforum Wien Concert Cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus

tritsch tratsch

ARTIST Wolfgang Mitterer CONDUCTOR Elena Schwarz
January 27, 2025 7:00 PM
19:00
Uhr
Wiener Konzerthaus, Great Hall, Vienna
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2025
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January 27, 2025 7:00 PM
Klangforum Wien Concert Cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus

Crash

ARTIST Alex Paxton | New Vocal Soloists CONDUCTOR Vimbayi Kaziboni
February 28, 2025 7:00 PM
19:00
Uhr
Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall, Vienna
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2025
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February 28, 2025 7:00 PM
Klangforum Wien Concert Cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus

Explosion

ARTIST Philippe Manoury | Pierre Boulez | Liza Lim CONDUCTOR Sylvain Cambreling
April 10, 2025 7:00 PM
19:00
Uhr
Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall, Vienna
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2025
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April 10, 2025 7:00 PM
Klangforum Wien Concert Cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus

Amopera

ARTISTS Luciano Berio | Sir Harrison Birtwistle | Alexander Zemlinsky | Alban Berg | Benjamin Britten | Peter Maxwell Davis | Iannis Xenakis | Salvatore Sciarrino | Bernhard Lang | Beat Furrer | Rebecca Saunders | Michael Wertmüller | Sara Glojnarić | Needcompany | Sarah Maria Sun | Holger Falk DESIGN Jan Lauwers CONDUCTOR Tim Anderson
May 11, 2025 7:00 PM
19:00
Uhr
Wiener Konzerthaus, Great Hall, Vienna
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Austria
2025
5
May 11, 2025 7:00 PM

Past cycle concerts

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Klangforum Wien Concert Cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus

strange bird

ARTIST Clara Iannotta | Brendan Champeaux | Yiran Zhao | George Lewis | Shiqi Geng CONDUCTOR Vimbayi Kaziboni
October 25, 2024 7:00 PM
19:00
Uhr
Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall, Vienna
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Austria
2024
10
October 25, 2024 7:00 PM
Klangforum Wien Concert Cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus

Singen, Sehnen

ARTIST Beat Furrer CONDUCTOR Beat Furrer
November 19, 2024 8:00 PM
20:00
Uhr
Wiener Konzerthaus, Great Hall, Vienna
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Austria
2024
11
November 19, 2024 8:00 PM