Songs by Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg, Charles Ives, Modest Mussorgsky, Chen Yi, Toru Takemitsu, Charles Trenet, Cole Porter and others.

A concert programme in which British-Singaporean mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and pianist Julius Drake explore the personal connections and feelings of home, homeland and belonging. The program combines poetry and music from Eastern and Western creators around the themes of home, childhood and dreams and asks us all the question: Is the term "home" for you an inner state, a physical place, a geopolitical space?

The Renaissance in 19th-century song and literature – songs by Wolf, Liszt and others; texts by Rilke, Hugo and others

The concert accompanying the exhibition “Carpaccio, Bellini and the Early Renaissance in Venice, which will be shown at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart from November 2024 to March 2025, highlights the reception of the Renaissance in the 19th-century art song repertoire and in the literature of the early 20th century. Bass-baritone Michael Nagl, a member of the Stuttgart State Opera ensemble since 2018/19, together with pianist Götz Payer, will perform songs based on poems by Renaissance poets, including Hugo Wolf and Franz Liszt. The musical program will be complemented by a speaker from the Stuttgart Academy for the Spoken Word with texts of so-called “Renaissancism” from the late 19th and early 20th century.