Maxime Pascal, Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper, will conduct Stockhausen’s Wednesday from Light this season and lead the symphonic concert Turangalîla – Messiaen’s overwhelming ode to love, inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde: love as a cosmic force, insatiable and boundless. For his film, he has chosen Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke: the same questions, a dying forest, no easy answers.

Ashitaka, a prince of the Emishi people, who are on the brink of extinction, is cursed by a demonic boar god and must embark on a journey westward to find a cure. Along the way, he meets San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to restore balance in this conflict.

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Unlimited is taking the opera to the cinema: At one of the auditoriums at delphi Lux, artists whom we are meeting this opera season will show their secret favourite films, guilty pleasures or cinematic inspirations in the context of opera productions – and will personally present them. All in line with our season motto Make Love…