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Anne Sofie von Otter

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Anne-Sophie von Otter, one of the leading mezzo-sopranos in the classical music world, completed her final tour of Japan in 2025. While her repertoire spans from Baroque to contemporary music, she has also performed across genres, collaborating with artists such as Elvis Costello and Brad Mehldau. Together with the Berlin Komische Oper Salon Orchestra, led by Adam Benzvi, she will shed light on German music from a turbulent era. The setting is the 1920s through the 1940s, a period that oscillated between intense vitality and deep despair. It was an era in which jazz and popular music fused with classical traditions, giving rise to a diverse range of musicfrom the distinctive Prussian Swing (a unique jazz style that developed in Berlin) to cabaret songs and melancholic ballads. Hiding melancholy and political satire behind cheerful melodies set to lyrics by Brecht, Balts, and