Festival Retz [ENA] The Festival Retz production of Judith & Holofernes presents Alessandro Scarlatti’s rarely heard baroque opera as a gripping “polit‑thriller” set within charged sacred space of the Stadtpfarrkirche St. Stephan in Retz. Performed in an international top‑class cast and in a newly reconstructed original version from 1697, the evening transforms a familiar biblical story into a sharply contemporary reflection on power.   [Full story...]

ImpulsTanz Festival [ENA] Christos Papadopoulos’ My Fierce Ignorant Step is a luminous, unapologetically energetic celebration of youth as a political and poetic force, channelled through a precise yet overflowing contemporary dance language. Against the “depressing reality of our days”, the piece stages nothing less than an uprising of hope, carried by ten dancers whose bodies refuse resignation and instead insist on movement and connection.   [Full story...]