Mar 12, 2021

Klarafestival 2021 welcomes you

Klarafestival 2021 officially kicks off tomorrow. Here we give you some more practical information and some highlights you shouldn't miss.

Practical information

Tomorrow, Klarafestival 2021 officially kicks off. From March 13 to 22, various digital concerts and projects can be followed for free via our website.

You can tune in to Klarafestivals performances in several ways: via radio, via streaming and on demand.

radio

Our close partner Klara will, as usual, broadcast Klarafestival fully. Also Musiq3 will give you the opportunity to discover some concerts of Klarafestival.

streaming

All concerts will be streamed via this link. Please don't forget to register in advance to watch the free concerts. (one time only to watch the entire festival). You can also watch via the Klara app and the Klara website. The debate 'in het oog van de klimaatstorm' will be streamed live (in Dutch) via Facebook. The Unanswered Question, Das Lied von der Erde, Happy Birthday Piazzolla!, Sound & Vision and Musikaa willl be broadcast by Proximus Pickx.

How can you tune in exactly via our streaming page? We ask you to register via www.klarafestival.be/live. This is a one-off registration, and you can already register in advance. Once registered, we’ll send you an e-mail with more practical information and your login details for the festival. Want to make sure your link is functioning? Do test the link and your login details fifteen minutes ahead of the start of the concert you want to tune in to. We will welcome you on a waiting page fifteen minutes before the concert starts.

How to better experience our streamings? Via the HDMI connection of your television you can go full out and enjoy the festival comfortably from your couch. Connect your laptop via a HDMI cable or cast our streaming page to your television screen via your Chromast, Miracast or Airplay (for Apple TV).

on demand

You don’t find the time to watch the concerts when broadcast during our festival? All performances will be available via our YouTube channel, our website and VRT NU, 24 hours after the initial première on our website. The Unanswered Question, Das Lied von der Erde, Happy Birthday, Piazzolla!, Sound & Vision and Musikaa can be watched again on Proximus Pickx. From March 25 to March 28 nine of this year's festival performances will be programmed during the line up of new pop-up culture channel Podium 19.

Highlights

Curious about the programming? The program via this link will give you extra information and explanations about each performance. Here we list a few highlights:

premiere songs of nature

Klarafestival opens on March 13 with Songs of Nature, a musical theatre production that should have premiered last year in Amsterdam, with further dates in Bruges, Shanghai, and Rouen and at Operadagen Rotterdam. All of these shows were cancelled, but Klarafestival and BOZAR can now at last bring this new production by B’Rock and Muziektheater Transparant to the stage.

undisputed masterpieces

Exquisite renditions of the great Romantic repertoire have long been the mainstay of Klarafestival. It’s taken some effort, but we are able to present you with some unforgettable classics in this edition too. Undoubtedly, one highlight is the concert by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra conducted by the former chief conductor Edo de Waart with Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Wagner‘s Siegfried-Idyll. Next, Het Collectief also presents Mahlers Das Lied von der Erde in a majestic arrangement by the conductor, pianist and composer Reinbert de Leeuw who passed away last year.

creations

Now more than ever, Klarafestival wants to help artists to create new work. Sound & Vision is a digital production in which seven duos - each comprising a composer and a visual artist - present new work. Klarafestival has invited an international guest of stature in the STEGREIF.orchester. This hip improvisation orchestra from Berlin has been going from strength to strength in German-speaking countries, but they’ve never been heard in Belgium. And as icing on the cake, together with Passa Porta we asked the famous Dutch author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer to write a new ‘Idyll’.

new talent

As well as some major names, Klarafestival has also gathered rather a lot of new talent. To keep an eye on is the brand new project MUSIKAA, a collaboration with the Municipality of Molenbeek and a few of the many cultural organisations in the area. Working with local talent, they present an artistic programme that can be discovered both online and by scanning QR codes along a walking route through Molenbeek.

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