DIE GESCHICHTE VON KÖNIGIN ESTHER - für Schulklassen 2023 the fourth largest active synagogue

the fourth largest active synagogue in the world

Glass's musical setting from 2000 underlines the timelessness of the play about the limits of justice and human possibility

our perspective changes

The second edition of Im Umbruch focuses on the artistic paradigm shift that led to increasingly abstract forms of representation: bouquets of flowers become ornamental tendrils

For the concertgoers

DIE GESCHICHTE VON KÖNIGIN ESTHER - für Schulklassen 2023 the fourth largest active synagogueDaniel Grossmann, conductor The Jewish festival of Purim, which begins on the evening of March 6th in 2023, dates back to Queen Esther, who lived as a Jewish orphan in the Persian diaspora in the 5th century BC. When Haman, the highest government official of the Persian king, tried to have the entire Jewish population murdered, Esther courageously went to the king herself and thus prevented genocide. This rescue is still celebrated on Purim today.