Teodor Currentzis

Children have the Proms. Grown-ups head to Salzburg. Snob summer

10 August 2024 9:00 am

Salzburg Festival doesn’t mess about. The offerings this year include an adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain in Lithuanian, a…

Apocalyptic minimalism: Carl Orff's final opera, at Salzburg Festival, reviewed

3 September 2022 9:00 am

‘Germany’s greatest artistic asset, its music, is in danger,’ warned The Spectator in June 1937. Reporting from the leading new-music…

A document of a mass human experiment that is moving, revolting, violent and extraordinarily pornographic

Dau is the strangest and most unsettling piece of art to come out of Russia in years

2 February 2019 9:00 am

Dau is not so much a film as a document of a mass human experiment. The result is dark, brilliant…