• review26.04

  Verdi in the War Zone

  
  SØS Gunver Ryberg blows Verdi apart from within in a fierce and sensuous Jeanne d’Arc, where the beauty of opera collides with the noise of war and the fractures of the present.

  By Henrik Marstal
• interview21.04

  A Dance with the Site-Specific: Simon Steen-Andersen at 50

  
  The Danish composer turns architecture, body, and context into part of the work – challenging our notions of what music is and how we experience it.

  By Henrik Marstal
• review17.04

  In the Shadow of Pärt

  
  Estonian Music Days revealed a musical culture caught between tradition, renewal, and a restless world.

  By Henrik Marstal

• review29.03

  CTM Festival in Berlin: Is the Electronic GPS Still On?

  
  For a long time, CTM has served as a beacon for contemporary electronic music. But in an increasingly fragmented scene, the question arises: does the festival still show the way?

  By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
• review25.03

  The Comfort of Art

  
  At Borealis in Bergen, community is everywhere. But when everything is filtered through safety and intimacy, the music risks losing its necessity – and its bite.

  By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
• review18.03

  We’ve Never Needed Pulsar Festival More

  
  The major Danish composer festivals are starting to resemble each other more and more, but Pulsar Festival stands apart. Here, there is still more string quartet than performance art, making Pulsar an important alternative platform for new music – if only the festival itself would fully realize it.

  By Sune Anderberg

• review10.03

  When the World Trembles, Kirkenes Listens

  
  At the Barents Spektakel art festival, war, borders and vibrations are transformed into sound, conversation and art at Europe’s northernmost edge.

  By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
• essay10.03

  Conversations with the Ghosts of the Past

  
  Dungeon synth is less a longing for a lost golden age than a conversation with memory itself, carried by noise, decay, and the echoes of forgotten worlds.

  By Albert Grøn Klausen
• news25.02

  From Ice Opera to International Leadership

  
  Louise Beck to head the next chapter of Copenhagen Opera Festival.

  By red.