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More than Entertainment - An Experience for the Senses

Immerse yourself in a carefully curated program of exclusive performances, inspiring encounters, and captivating displays. In a stylish setting, art, culture, and entertainment come together to create unforgettable experiences. Discover here the carefully selected artists featured on this journey.

  • Breakdance

    DDC

    Founded in 1999, DDC is one of the most renowned breakdance crews in the German-speaking world. Combining breakdance with modern artistry, they have won numerous awards. The crew has toured worldwide, performed at major festivals, and produced over 300 shows, including "Breakin' Mozart." DDC is known for gala shows, TV appearances, and large live events. In 2013, they founded their own company and also provide talent development at the DDC Factory. Since 2023, their tour program "Breakin' Circus" has been on the road.

  • Reading

    Gabriel Bayrlli

    Gabriel Barylli is one of the most performed German-speaking authors of contemporary times. He is also well-known as a leading actor and director in many German and international film productions. His play Butterbrot became the most performed German-language theater piece of the post-war era. The film adaptation, which he directed, wrote, and starred in, won the Bavarian Film Award. Other awards Barylli has received include the "Golden Palm in Cannes" and the "Grimme Prize." All 11 of his published novels and nonfiction books have become bestsellers.

  • Classical Music

    Claire Elizabeth Craig

    Claire Elizabeth Craig is a young soprano with both Scottish and German roots who also feels very closely connected with the home of her choice – Austria. She was a scholarship student while studying at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and a prizewinner on many occasions, including the International Brahms Competion and the International Anton Rubinstein Competition. Important mentors for her were Barbara Bonney, KS Krassimira Stoyanova and Eva Lindqvist. She has performed at the Salzburger Festspiele, the Mozartwoche Salzburg, the Jeunesse Wien, the Thüringer Bachwochen, the Mozart-Festivals in Havanna and Medellin, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and with the Vienna Symphony, under the baton of conductors such as 
    Adam Fischer, Sir Ivor Bolton, Kristina Poska, Markus Poschner and Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas. In addition to international opera and concert performances, she dedicates her time to chamber music and the interpretation of art songs (Kunstlieder). With her duo partner Katharina Königsfeld 
    she shares a passion of the works of female composers such as Emilie Mayer and Clara Schumann. Musically, she feels most at home in Mozart's enormous vocal oeuvre for the soprano voice

  • Classical Music

    Katharina Königsfeld

    Katharina Königsfeld, pianist and organist from Bamberg, studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts. She performs internationally in renowned concert halls such as the Philharmonie Essen and Konzerthaus Dortmund and is a regular guest on the MS Europa. In addition to solo repertoire, she is deeply involved in chamber music and art song.

    She has worked with artists such as Justus Zeyen, Matthias Goerne, and Christoph Eschenbach. In 2015, she premiered the piano transcription of Hans Rott's Symphony, and in 2018, she became the artistic director of the International Organ Academy Kitzbühel.

    From 2014 to 2021, Katharina Königsfeld was exclusively signed to Sony Classical and initiated the concert series KonzertKULTur at A-ROSA Kitzbühel. In 2024, she premiered works for tuba quartet and organ with the Melton Tuba Quartet.