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A Continent in Conversation
When it comes to exhibiting European culture, few platforms have achieved the reach and ambition of ARTE. Founded in 1992 as a Franco-German cultural broadcaster, ARTE has grown from an evening-only service into a fully-fledged pan-European platform, offering multilingual content
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Where Flamenco Meets the Baroque
Origen and the Sound of Time
Blending dance and music in a way that transcends traditional genre boundaries, Origen: La Semilla de los tiempos celebrates the deep and enduring connections between flamenco and Baroque music. Filmed at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the production brings
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Tango, Myth, and the City
María de Buenos Aires
Composed in 1968 by Astor Piazzolla to a libretto by Horacio Ferrer, María de Buenos Aires occupies a singular place in twentieth-century music theatre. Neither opera nor musical, it fuses tango nuevo with surrealist poetry to create a ritual of
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Babx & Adrien Mondot: Piano Piano
The Art of Gentle Wonder
Just in time for Christmas 2025, we decided to feature an ARTE performance that transcends conventional concert formats. Babx & Adrien Mondot present Piano Piano, a multidisciplinary project that combines live music, visual art, digital projection, and performative gestures into
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Echoes and Tensions
Shostakovich and Walton under Mäkelä
Recorded on 30 May 2023, the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä invited Sol Gabetta and Willard White for a programme featuring selected works by Shostakovich and Walton. Shostakovich and Walton, two composers separated by geography but united by the
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Minasi & Pahud with Radio France Philharmonic
Mozart at the Heart
On 17 September 2025, conductor Riccardo Minasi, flautist Emmanuel Pahud and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra joined forces for a concert dedicated to Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn, with a Debussy encore. At the heart of the program is Mozart’s Flute
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Nordic Twilight
Camilla Nylund and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Filmed in the open-air embrace of the 2025 Usedomer Musikfestival, Camilla Nylund steps forward to reclaim Jean Sibelius from the monumental shadow of his symphonies. She is not merely an interpreter, but a luminous conduit for Sibelius’ soul-stirring introspection. The
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The Resonant Rebirth
Concert for Notre-Dame
On 7 January 2025, the vaulted nave of Notre-Dame, once scarred by the inferno of 15 April 2019, reverberated once more with sacred cadences of voices and strings. Notre-Dame de Paris emerged from its chrysalis of scaffolding and silence into
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