Amazonas Heute by Villa-Lobos, Debussy, Ravel, Schumann, De (2024/2024), Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

What is the situation with the rainforest in Brazil? And what does this topic have to do with us here in Germany, in Frankfurt? What responsibility do we have, including for the habitat on the other side of the Atlantic? In the panel discussion, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, son of the photographer Sebastião Salgado, will report on the work of the Instituto Terra, which he founded. It is committed to reforesting the areas in Brazil that have become steppe as a result of clearing the rainforests and is committed to preserving the rainforests in general. The discussion will be framed by piano music on the subject of water and forests. In the concert section with the pianist José Gallardo, we will encounter Heitor Villa-Lobos's longing for the Brazilian forests, which he brought to music in faraway Paris, and the water goddess Undine, as Debussy gave her a delicate sound.