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24.03.2022
From Bach to Buddha – Easter Fun at the Gasteig
Enjoy the Easter holidays with the Osterfilmtage film festival
The Munich City Library is building the anticipation ahead of the Easter holidays with carefully selected children’s films: pint-sized ghosts, cunning animals and powerful heroes and heroines will fill the screen of the Gasteig cinema from 3 PM every day from Saturday, 9 April through to Thursday, 14 April. More on the Osterfilmtage film festival
Reflect with Brahms and the Munich Philharmonic
Johannes Brahms composed »A German Requiem« primarily to comfort the living, with the aim of enthralling everyone who heard it. Although it uses words from the Holy Scriptures, the Requiem is non-liturgical. Conducted by Paavo Järvi and accompanied by the Philharmonic Choir, the Munich Philharmonic will perform Brahms’ moving work twice in the Isarphilharmonie – on Wednesday, 13 April and Thursday, 14 April. Concert information
Good Friday tradition: Bach’s St Matthew Passion
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his masterpiece in 1727 for the Good Friday evening service in the St Thomas Church in Leipzig. Over the centuries since then, the Passion has become an essential Easter tradition for Christians and fans of classical music. Hansjörg Albrecht will conduct the Munich Bach Choir, Bach Orchestra and Münchner Knabenchor in the Isarphilharmonie at 2 PM on Good Friday, 15 April. At 7 PM, Philippe Herreweghe will lead the Collegium Vocale Gent through the history of the Passion.
Symbol of peace on Easter Saturday
Ode to joy! Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 is a symbol of peace and international understanding and has also been the EU anthem for many years. The Munich Symphony Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s monumental and climactic composition together with the Münchner Oratorienchor, Münchner Konzertchor and Münchner Brahms-Chor choirs on Easter Saturday (7:30 PM on 16 April) in the Isarphilharmonie.
The Easter Bunny is listening: ISARFLUX Festival on Easter Sunday!
An Easter fixture held for the first time at Gasteig HP8. The ISARFLUX on the evening of Easter Sunday, 17 April features a line-up that will delight all festival fans. Against the backdrop of the brand-new Hall X and the rough, industrial charm of the listed Hall E, Rosa Blut, Kannheiser, lilly among clouds and Ströme are four highly promising young ensembles that will pull out all the stops: delicate, pop, rock and electric. Free admission! All the details
We’re off to the Caribbean: Celebrate Easter with pirates on the big screen and a live orchestra
On the evening of Easter Sunday and the afternoon of Easter Monday, the Isarphilharmonie will become Munich’s biggest cinema auditorium, as the musicians of the Pilsen Philharmonic transform into swashbuckling adventurers. Lights down for the first part of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, with a live orchestra and Johnny Depp as pirate captain Jack Sparrow.
The Gasteig team would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter!