all like poetic approach to confronting the dark chapters of german history. when high fashion doesn't sell designer duran puts the clothing industry's cast offs back on the runway. first though what last year might have been artistically daring is this year actually potentially dangerous operas plays and concerts performed in front of a live audience for a month in the middle of a pandemic well in its 100 year history of the salzburg festival in austria has only had to cancel one time and that was during world war 2 this year organizers are determined to stay open. onstage everything this is it should be 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 such book is probably the only festival that's taking place despite corona to achieve it into voiceover work too soft to exhaustion if they are. if out and it is and we have to live with this violence it's not just going to go away. and we will find new ways mechanisms so we can still enjoy the culture the music the theater the salzburg festival to which people come from all over the world forfeit mention must take on some very. spooky insults pulled workers transport props for the festivals and you will highlight your demand. this year's 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 hot and the tickets offered produced these steps are all part of the festivals coronavirus plan. you have to learn a mascot in the festivals concert halls except when sitting here in a performance and then you can take it 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 it's the other way round let's face it we have no breaks and no catering it's kind of even more tense cause a fan tutte it is one of 2 operas on show some will is small to give the individual sing this mood distance the whole production was put together from scratch in just 3 weeks. doing a move that is of guys in star of the music scene conducting mozart because if entry to marks a festival debut to take part she's 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. it's 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 it's great fun. the festival despite the run reminds many of the festivals founded in its 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 the sense of urgency can still be felt today. in the fish. shift plus the festival is not just important for business but it's also essential for the cultural identity of this city to organize such festivals. and from locked on showing the lock down it was a source of hope that many held on to to race this spirits. but what happens if

after all this the festival has to be cancelled. the great sadness would. be proud of the fact that at least we tried. much as the people of south spoke but the musical world is now waiting to see whether the dare insult book festival during cobra pays off. so will it pay off i've 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 it's possible that they still might have to cancel this that's right they might have to cancel it at the moment we are watching a much bigger production than anything that's going on insults vocal anywhere else it's called how to put on a production how to put on a major festival during corona time that's what we're really watching for kind of

the fun to do even there for a while no ok that's not the production we're watching oh no we won't know whether it works until it's really over and i'm sure the artistic director isn't going to rest until until it's actually over that's that's when he's 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 i'm 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 that so we can actually see these people on stage fighting with each other kissing each other they've been put into 3 color coded categories yes so you've got the red category which is the orchestra and the singing is in the choir and they are only really in that to interact with each other is not you're not exposed to outside sources of the virus that's right

well i mean it's not it's 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 let's talk a little bit about the history of this festival this is. the 100th anniversary actually actually the salzburg festival and every year it starts off with the same play it's called yet on mine and it's a play actually about confronting death which is more relevant than ever i would see him play about confronting death that's right and when it was 1st put on 100 years ago. they obviously had just come out of a well maybe that was still going through the spanish flu time and another pandemic yet another pandemic and then also the whole festival sort of arose out of the ruins of the 1st world war anyway so we had that going on so there are

a lot of parallels yeah ok so history sort of i mean for one pandemic after another $100.00 anniversary of the sideboard festival 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 who've lived through the 3rd device 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 his current exhibition at the french market 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 a 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 only studios. 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 forces with 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 don't create money in it stuck with me everything is in flux rules. kiefer's most affecting works pay homage to writers and their works this piece is dedicated to the late austrian poet and author in the park. move massive lead books serve as symbolic depositories of human languages and the

memories of catastrophes guilt and crimes. in the 1st notice him of it there but i'm always fascinated when someone gives the world a certain order creates a new context i try to do that to go examine ourselves. for uses natural materials such as wood twigs iron and cotton chosen based on the emotions they arouse in him. it's 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 them the human mind imprisoned kiefer shows us that. freedom comes through creativity through dreams. and speaking of dreams fashion designer duren lansing doesn't just dream up whatever styles he likes 1st he rummages around what others have come up with 1st

the stuff that no one's bought we got to visit lancer at his studio and hampster. a coat that combines fabrics from high end fashion labels like celine prada helen klein and rob simmons rearranged and reassembled that's designer duran mountings concept. when i was young i was always scouting up old pieces. this is the design that made the designers name in 2018 he created these the dyna pants for american soul singers and now monet. duran is especially proud of the code he created for superstar billy eilish it's 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.

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