Beethoven’s Piano Concertos as you have never heard them before: For The Listeners Academy, Alexander Melnikov and the musicians of B'Rock are inspired by the legendary Bernstein on... format, an early and still unparalleled example of outreach and audience development in classical music.

An ode to 300 years of St John Passion in a unique chamber version of the work with just four singers, strings, flute, synthesiser and electric guitar. Meanwhile, the essences of the selected arias and choruses are visualised in an emotional language of movement, tension and release, by four acrobats from Tall Tales Company.

With The Travels of Monteverdi, B’Rock Orchestra & Vocal Consort invite the audience to follow Claudio Monteverdi’s artistic development from his days at the Gonzaga court in Mantua to the peak of his career as Maestro di Capella at San Marco in Venice. From the traditional polyphonic style of the old masters to the almost unrestricted freedom of the 'seconda prattica', from the foothills of the Renaissance to a still untouched new world of the dawning Baroque age.

René Jacobs and B'Rock Orchestra set out to rediscover Bizet's Carmen in a version as the composer intended - before the managers of the Opéra Comique de Paris demanded major changes. The star-studded cast includes Gaëlle Arquez as Carmen, Sabine Devieilhe as Micaëla and François Rougier as Don José.

Notwehr brings together old and new music: Banchieri’s madrigal cycle La barca di Venezia a Padua functions as a kind of echo of the past and of the outside world, weaving its way into new music by composer Annelies Van Parys.

Expressively charged intros, swirling closing passages, imaginative colours: even in the contemporary chamber music versions made of Haydn's 'London' symphonies, his originality stands steeply upright.

With Love Doll playing with the Big Boys in a Different Kind of Space, Lies Pauwels explores the expressive and transformative power of the body. Also on stage: dancer Nicolas Vladyslav, saxophonist Bertel Schollaert and musicians of B'Rock Orchestra, who will perform live a new composition by Frederik Neyrinck.

Together with a group of acting students, the singers of the International Opera Academy question Caesar’s mortality. Using a combination of theatre texts and Baroque arias, they explore the meaning of Caesar’s death (and life). 

Great stories, great feelings, people and society are reflected in our heroines and heroes. In a rich programme of Baroque opera excerpts, B'Rock Orchestra, together with the ideal partner in pleasure soprano Jeanine de Bique and our Vocal Consort, explores what we can learn from our legends.

With the performance and recording of the complete Schubert symphonies, B'Rock and René Jacobs embarked on a symphonic journey that they now continue by going back in time: together they explore the world of Felix Mendelssohn, mirrored by Schubertian's enigmatic Unfinished Symphony.

Julian Prégardien invites the audience on an immersive journey through the centuries, listening to the infinite ways of love and death sounding different and yet eternally the same.

Together, soloist Avi Avital and B'Rock inject a solid dose of flair and schwung into the fiery concertos by Italian baroque composers.