Strauss with a view

Join Johann Strauss for an unconventional look at the present and the future. The performers have no truck with traditional genre boundaries and categorisations. The Hip-Hop Duo EsRap and pianist Marino Formenti reinterpret Viennese operetta. Mandola meets cello for everything from heavy rock to Strauss miniatures, the Schmusechor (Snuggles Choir) dances its queer/ feminist version of the Blue Danube. These artists all reflect the soundtrack of the age we live in, an age closer to Strauss’ time than we may think.