Interfinity turns its gaze upwards—to exoplanets and the cosmos. The festival tells a continuous storyline, from the origins of humanity to the distant worlds beyond our solar system. Musically, the journey leads from the Baroque era to the modern age and culminates in a grand highlight: a production about exoplanets in the Messe Halle, developed in collaboration with the NCCR PlanetS research focus and performed by the Sinfonieorchester Basel.
For the grand opening of Interfinity 2026, the world-renowned flautist Maurice Steger, together with the baroque orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro, presents a program that looks back to the origins of our music, before the festival embarks on its journey into the vastness of space. The program is entirely dedicated to the cosmos, as seen through the eyes of composers of that era: a time when science and art were closely intertwined. Thinkers like Kepler, Galileo, and Brahe were active at the same time, while composers such as Schütz, Monteverdi, and di Lasso translated celestial movements into sound. This fascination with the stars is reflected in works by Emilio de Cavalieri ("Sinfonia dell'Intermedio—L'armonia delle sfere"), Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Tarquinio Merula, George Friedrich Händel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Georg Philipp Telemann's "Die klingende Geographie" (The Sounding Geography). Even today, over 300 years later, we are still at the beginning when it comes to understanding the secrets of the universe and feel connected to the composers of that time in their wonder and spirit of inquiry.
Tickets are CHF 50 (CHF 15 for students).

Website
interfinity.ch/en/steger

Where
Martinskirche
Martinskirchplatz 4
4051 Basel

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