Entertainment

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.

Program and artist subject to change.

CURATED CONCERTS

Experience an exclusive concert format: CURATED CONCERTS focus on outstanding artists and their individual musical stories. Each voyage combines two concerts on board with a special concert ashore, opening up new perspectives on music, artists and the destinations along the route.

On this cruise, pianist Alexander Krichel has devised the musical programme in collaboration with his musical partners. A special highlight awaits guests in Stockholm: together with actor Sabin Tambrea, he will present a moving stage programme that breathes new life into the almost forgotten art form of the melodrama, featuring evocative recitations in dialogue with classical piano music.

Pianist

Alexander Krichel

Actor & Voice Artist

Sabin Tambrea

Pianist

Alexander Krichel

ECHO Klassik Award winner Alexander Krichel is renowned for his captivating interpretations of the most demanding works in the piano repertoire.

Having studied under Vladimir Krainev and Dmitri Alexeev, Krichel has been particularly influenced by the Russian school. His album 'My Rachmaninoff' (2023) was singled out by the 'F.A.Z.' as one of three outstanding recordings of the anniversary year.

Most recently, he performed the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on tour with the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Stanislav Kochanovsky; his Piano Concerto No. 3 with Sebastian Weigle as part of a seven-part residency with the Brandenburg State Orchestra; and his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Badische Staatskapelle.

In 2025, he marked the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth with performances of Ravel’s three major solo cycles, including at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, as well as the Concerto in G major with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn under Dirk Kaftan. His Ravel album 'Miroirs' was described by International Piano Magazine' as 'on a par with those by Osborne, Pogorelich and Argerich'.

Alexander Krichel has performed at the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Konzerthaus and the Musikverein in Vienna, as well as in the renowned concert halls of New York, London, Cape Town, Tokyo and many other cities, and with orchestras including the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the hr Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra and the Festival Strings Lucerne. He has performed with conductors including Jonathan Nott, Michael Sanderling, Gabriel Feltz, Wojciech Rajski, Markus Poschner and many others. Recent debuts have taken him to Australia, Taiwan and Turkey.

He works closely with Tobias Feldmann, Maximilian Hornung, as well as with the Shanghai String Quartet, the Goldmund Quartet, the Amaryllis Quartet, the Minguet Quartet and the Berlin Philharmonic String Quartet.

Krichel is Artistic Director of the 'Kultur Rock' festival, 'Kammermusik am Hochrhein' and the 'Junge Pianisten Elite Solingen' series, as well as a jury member for the Fanny Mendelssohn Encouragement Prize.

Actor & Voice Artist

Sabin Tambrea

Sabin Tambrea was born in Romania in 1984 and emigrated to Germany in 1987 as the son of classical orchestra musicians. He began taking violin lessons at an early age and gained his first stage experience at the age of five. He was a multiple prize-winner at the 'Jugend musiziert' competition. At the age of nine, he appeared on stage for the first time without an instrument as a singer and actor at the Theater Hagen and was a founding member of the theatre’s youth theatre group.

In 2006, he began studying acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, graduating with a diploma in 2010. Whilst still a student, he was engaged by Claus Peymann at the Berliner Ensemble, where he performed until 2018. There, he played numerous leading roles, including Peter Pan in Robert Wilson’s production and Prince Friedrich von Homburg in Claus Peymann’s farewell production. For his performances, he was honoured by the Theatergemeinde Berlin as Best Young Actor.

Sabin Tambrea made his film debut in 2013 as King Ludwig II of Bavaria. For this role, he received the Bavarian Film Award, the New Faces Award and a nomination for the German Film Award. This was followed by, amongst others, the Austrian thriller 'Ma Foli' (First Steps Award – Best Feature Film) and the remake of 'Naked Among Wolves', which won the German Television Prize for Best Film.

In the years that followed, he took on numerous leading and defining roles in cinema, television and streaming productions, including the ZDF series 'Ku’damm 56/59/63', 'Babylon Berlin', the title role in 'Narziss und Goldmund', the series 'Deutsches Haus' and the feature film 'In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt', for which he was honoured with the Günter Rohrbach Acting Award in 2022. The German-Romanian co-production 'Hackerville' was awarded the Grimme Prize; Tambrea also appeared in the feature film 'La Gomera' by Corneliu Porumboiu, which was screened in the competition section at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2021, his debut work of fiction, 'Nachtleben', was published and entered the 'SPIEGEL' bestseller list in its first week of release. This was followed in 2024 by his second novel, 'Vaterländer', a family saga spanning three generations that explores themes of flight, origin and identity, which remained on the bestseller lists for over 20 weeks.

Most recently, Sabin Tambrea appeared as Franz Kafka in the literary adaptation 'Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens' (directed by Georg Maas and Judith Kaufmann) and in 'Heimweg', a film adaptation of a Sebastian Fitzek novel for Amazon Prime. He can currently be seen in the ARD series 'Oderbruch' and in the fourth series of the Ku’damm series ('Ku’damm 77'). Due for release are the feature films 'Kochschule Schwarz' by Dani Levy, in which he stars alongside Hannah Herzsprung and Florian David Fitz, and 'Schatten', in which he appears on screen alongside his wife Alice Dwyer.