MEDIATHEK

By implementing gestures, motives and images of popular culture and by confronting them with the complexity and evocative abstraction of a work of contemporary classical music, "sinatra in agony" deals with the broad field of today’s music practice, exploring its functions in society from its origins until today.
 
A countertenor and an actor embody seemingly different paths while also demonstratively crossing the traditional boundaries between pop and art music — sound itself moves into the centre of attention beyond genre categories.
 
Sinatra’s identity crisis serves as a starting point to ask: should music be light or serious? Is it better to be a countertenor or an entertainer? Can music actually fight loneliness? And why does one even learn to play an instrument?