| concert

National Symphony Orchestra
featuring Christa Schönfeldinger

Christoph Eschenbach conducts a program of classical and contemporary music with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto featuring soloist Jörg Widmann. Widmann's own compsition, Armonica, features the affecting tones of Christa Schönfeldinger's glass armonica. The event will be followed by a free discussion with Christoph Eschenbach, special guests, and NSO Director of Artistic Planning Nigel Boon.
Christa Schönfeldinger discovered the world of glass music at the beginning of the 1990s in Vienna with her brother, Gerald. Together they founded the Vienna Glass Armonica Duo. Thus they rediscovered and revived an instrument which, after enjoying a sensational wave of popularity in the 18th century, had been virtually forgotten for almost two hundred years. 
Today Christa Schönfeldinger is among the world's leading performers on the glass armonica and the verrophone. Together with her brother she has given concerts all over Europe, appearing at the Musikverein Vienna, Suntory Hall - Tokyo,  Opéra La Bastille - Paris, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, and the Mozartwoche Würzburg, just to name a few.

Thursday January 26 | 7:00 pm | Kennedy Center Concert Hall |  
Saturday January 28 | 8:00 pm | Kennedy Center Concert Hall |  
Sunday January 29 | 3:00 pm | Kennedy Center Concert Hall |  
For more information on the tickets please visit: www.kennedy-center.org

| contemporary dance
Exposition Corps

The Austrian Cultural Forum is pleased to announce the upcoming performance Exposition Corps by outstanding choreographer and dancer Saskia Hölbling at the Austrian Embassy. With this solo she is pursuing the analysis of the subjectivity of the body itself. The body exhibition investigates dermal layers, cells of memory, while reflecting on physical identity. A short introduction will be provided by American dance critic George Jackson who will also moderate a discussion with Saskia after the show.

Saskia Hölbling created more than 20 pieces with her ensemble DANS.KIAS since its foundation in 1995. She is proud holder of the Prix d’Auteur du Conseil Général de la Seine-Saint Denis/Bagnolet for Do Your Desires Still Burn and the Austrian Dance Production Prize for Other Feature. Besides her own choreographies, she has worked repeatedly with other prominent artists such as Benoît Lachambre  or Laurent Goldring.

Wednesday February 1 | 7:30 pm | Embassy of Austria | 3524 International Court NW | Washington DC 20008
Free of charge, RSVP requested under www.acfdc.org/events-registration or (202) 895-6776

| opéra bouffe
The Impresario by W. A. Mozart &
Mr. Cauliflower will be at home … by Jacques Offenbach

The ensemble of the Bel Cantanti Opera in Washington, DC will perform the two pieces Der Schauspieldirektor / The Impresario by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le…/ Mr. Cauliflower will be at home ... by Jacques Offenbach.

The Impresario, Mozart’s hysterical farce about operatic auditions transports you to the New York of the 1940s, where two primadonnas fight for the attention of an agent, who is desperately trying to get rid of them both.
In his marvelous opéra bouffe Mr. Cauliflower will be at home..., Jacques Offenbach lightheartedly ridicules the newly rich, pretentious bourgeois Monsieur Choufleuri in his attempt to impress the upper crust guests at his dinner party by butchering Italian language as well as popular operatic tunes and styles of Italian Grand Opera itself.
The Bel Cantanti Opera was founded by Dr. Katerina Souvorova in 2003. She still serves as its General and Artistic Director. Katerina Souvorova is an accomplished pianist as well as a distinguished professional opera and vocal coach. She earned her D.M.A., M.M. and Artist Diploma degrees with highest honors in piano performance from the conservatory of Belarus.

Thursday February 2 | 7:30 pm | Embassy of Austria | 3524 International Court NW | Washington DC 20008
Admission: $ 38 (adult), $ 15 (student); at the door: $ 40 (adult),  $ 15 (student); groups of 10 and more: $ 30, to purchase tickets, please visit: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/554133974