Should be a good such cause you can talk to. God. Outside salzburg is unrecognizable the city is empty the mood somber here nothing is as it should be and this is the festival celebrates its 100th anniversary direct democracy to who is a has made the impossible possible some spoke is probably the only festival thats taking place despite corona to achieve it into voiceover work to self to exhaustion if they are. If out and that is and we have to live with this violence its not just going to go away. And we will find new ways mechanisms so we can still enjoy the culture the music the future of the songs book festival to which people come from all over the world for fear that mention. That. Spooky insults book workers transport props for the festivals and you will highlight your demand. This years festival will very likely be the most unusual of its 100 g. History. Fruits and tenor a year at the festival will be shorter and smaller instead of 200. 00 performances there will be 100. 00 the number of venues has also been halved and the tickets offered reduced these steps are all part of the festivals coronavirus plan. You have to learn mask when the festivals concert halls except when city injuring your performance and then you can take it off a fortune on and off as you want and then we have a strict checkerboard rule at most so once it is occupied in the next not and then the net straw its the other way round lets face it we have no breaks and no catering what kind of. What sets cause a fan to to is one of 2 operas on show some will is small to get the individual seeing this movie distance the whole production was put together from scratch in just 3 weeks. Do and im of its of guys in star of the music scene conducting mozart because if and 2 to marks a festival debut to take part shes had to have regular corona chests and her contact with others has been trusted reduced in spite of the young conductor is still getting a lot out of the experience. Its a huge gift to be able to take part this year when so many others are not able to and we get to make music and rehearse mozart here insults book and i have to say that the special way the rehearsals are set up and the concentration and yet protected atmosphere is something i like very much its great fun. The festival despite the run reminds many of the festivals founded nitz back then in the wake of the 1st world war it started as a peace project with the very highest of artistic standards much of this sense of urgency can still be felt today. In the fish. The shift plus the festival is not just important for business but its also essential for the cultural identity of this city to organize such festivals. And from joe in the lock down it was a source of hope that many held on to to raise this spirits. But what happens if after all this the festival has to be cancelled. The Great Sadness we would. Be proud of the fact that at least we tried. More just the people of south spoke but the world is now waiting to see with the daring songs book festival during cobra pays off. So will it pay off ive got my colleague Melissa Holroyd here with me melissa festivals of the performing arts really all over the world are looking to see if this is going to work out and with an outbreak a new outbreak just down the road its possible that they still might have to cancel this thats right they might have to cancel it at the moment we are watching a much bigger production than anything thats going on insults vocal anywhere else its called how to put on a production how to put on a major festival during carona time thats what were really watching i think because the fun to do even there for a while no ok thats not the production were watching out now and we wont know whether it works until its really over and im sure the artistic director isnt going to rest until until its actually over thats thats when hes actually going to sleep and go ok we have done it ok so now besides just Wearing Masks melissa tell us what are they doing to make sure that the show can go on yeah i mean im sure as you can imagine actually putting on a show putting on a production involves people being very close to each other the musicians have to sit in the orchestra pit people have to be on stage people have to rehearse together so in order to get through this in so we can actually see these people on stage fighting with each other kissing each other theyve been put into 3 color coded categories yes so youve got the red category which is the orchestra and the singing is on the choir and they are only really allowed to interact with each other is not are not exposed to outside sources of the virus thats right well i mean its not its not is frowned upon if they do that and any interactions they do have have to be put down in a big book yeah so if even even if a journalist wants to speak to them they have to arrive with a with a with a recent corona free city if it gets and only then are they allowed to even have distance contact with the people who are in the red group ok so a lot of high security lets talk a little bit about the history of this festival this is. The 100th anniversary actually of actually the salzburg festival and every year it starts off with the same play its called yet on mine and its a play actually about confronting death which is more relevant than ever i would say imply about confronting death thats right and when it was 1st put on 100 years ago. They obviously had just come out although maybe that was still going through the spanish flu time and another pandemic yet another pandemic and then also the whole festival sort of rose out of the ruins of the focus will that will anyway so we had that going on so there are a lot of parallels yeah ok so history sort of i mean its one pandemic after another 100th anniversary of the fight for a civil thanks so much Melissa Horry for coming in syria and german artist and some key for i was born in 1945 the year of the nazis law lost world war 2 now growing up surrounded by people whove lived through the 3rd of ice and refer to refused to talk about it that left before with questions that he still explores today in his art full of references to poetry mythology and magic as current exhibition of the funds mark museum in southern germany where is the chance for a rare conversation with the artist. Artist and same kiefer considers himself a sort of alchemy just trying to create life from dirt and fire he sees himself as the creator of the new world. Owns a lever on that line is the our small life is like a miniature version of the cosmos what we see in the vastness of the cosmos that endlessness exists just the same in the other direction within us always to a new orleans. Man is the measure of all things and work is the purpose of life so for him art can be huge and encompassing an entire universe of meaning the felicity the muscles moment of my art is neither immoderate nor monumental certainly not a moderate because there is no beauty without moderation and not monumental because i dont create money with me everything is in flux flows. Kiefers most affecting works pay homage to writers and their works this piece is dedicated to the late austrian poet and author in the park. To massive lead books serve as symbolic depositories of human languages and the memories of catastrophes guilt and crimes. Only for us nudism up in the about im always fascinated when someone gives the world a certain order creates a new context i try to do that to go examine ourselves. Before uses natural materials such as wood twigs iron and chosen based on the emotions they arouse in him. Its byard by inch mythology german history and by his encounters with other creative people on some key for his work can be read on several levels here bricks evoke the rubble of war behind the human mind imprisoned kiefer shows us that. Freedom comes through creativity through greed. And speaking of dreams Fashion DesignerDuren Lansing doesnt just dream up whatever styles he likes 1st he rummages around what others have come up with 1st the stuff that no ones bought we got to visit lansing at his studio and hampster. A coach that combines fabrics from high end fashion labels like celine prada calvin klein and rob simmons rearranged and reassembled thats designer duran mountings concept. When i was young i was always cutting up old pieces. This is the design that made the designers name in 2018 he created these vagina pans for american soul singers n l monet. Duran is especially proud of the code he created for superstar billy eilish its made up of 2 quilted jackets by the current fashion label after the singer wore it for a photo shoot its value soared by several 1000 euros in. Luxury Department Stores provide him with unsold apparel for free he makes new items out of it and sells them back. Now. Has another entirely new idea. Without any. He would like to use. To envision a completely new. Approach. You know whether youre wearing just holograms and lights or maybe jeans and a t. Shirt thanks for joining us theres always more arts and culture news for you on our web site thats of course d. W. 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