Sa 18/04/2026
11.00

BIG BANG Festival

Musical adventures for young audiences

© Paul Stambera
Family/Festival/Music for young audiences

Family event for everyone from Age 5 to 105

The BIG BANG Festival is back and will make the Festspielhaus resound! A day full of music, discoveries and surprises awaits you - with magical sound ideas from the Zonzo Compagnie and a programme that will delight the curious of all ages. Immerse yourself in this unique musical adventure!

Music/Performance/Sound Art Look forward to surprising performances, unknown sounds and musical experiments that fill every corner from the stage to the foyer. This year you can explore a magical place full of musical plants with Solarium or make a whole flock of birds sing in the Pleyel foyer. The Festspielhaus becomes a huge musical playground with plenty of space to discover!

The Belgian Zonzo Compagnie is internationally recognised as a pioneer of music projects for young audiences. With the award-winning BIG BANG Festival, which is established in more than a dozen countries and has been honoured with the prestigious EFFE prize for European cultural festivals, the company creates an innovative musical experience for children and young people.

Zonzo Compagnie production
In collaboration with Jeunesse, City of St. Pölten

Logo for "LiMuKa" – the "Live Music Karaoke" project where anyone who wants to can cover songs on stage accompanied by a live band. The logo consists of the word "Limuka" in red neon lettering and the addition "Live Music Karaoke" in light blue lettering.
© LiMuKa

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Concerts to listen to and marvel at, programs to participate in and sound artworks to discover for yourself

All programmes at a glance

From 11.00 to 17.00 at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten

FEST

ZONZO Compagnie (BE)
© Karolina Maruszak

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

JUMPING JUNGLE (AT)

Group photo of Jumping Jungle, invited to the BIG BANG festival 2026.
© Julia Wesely

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

DUVEKOT/TAUBENSCHLAG

Ghentlemen (BE)
The project "Duvekot" – the Danish word for "dovecote" – can be seen in an interior view; inside "the smallest concert hall in the world" with theatre-boxes in which handmade birds sit, and in the middle a man with headphones who is apparently listening to music.
© Marc Naesen

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

ZOU!

Cie. Sons de Toile (FR)
Photo of the company “Sons de Toile,” two identically dressed men interacting with each other via their hands, as in their performance “Zou!,” in which body sounds become music.
© Le Studio de Jielbe

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

SOLARIUM

L'Eau de Bain (CA)
Photo of the sound art piece ‘Solarium’ – it shows a girl at a kind of record player that is overgrown with plants, and various plants can also be seen behind her.
© Thomas Sinou

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

DIESE VÖGEL FLIEGEN NORDWÄRTS

Serge Verstockt (BE) . Champ dAction (BE)
The photograph shows a child jumping up and down – various cages are hanging from the ceiling, with handmade birds sitting inside them.
© Dries Segers

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

CANDLELIGHT FICUS (AT)

The photograph shows a child jumping up and down – various cages are hanging from the ceiling, with handmade birds sitting inside them.
© Reithofer Media

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

CELLO FOR ONE

Jasmin Pollatschek (AT)
Atmospheric photo from the "BIG BANG Festival – Music Adventure for Young Audiences"; a girl stands in the foreground wearing a "BIG BANG" crown on her head and clapping her hands.
© Paul Stambera

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

CLOUDBUSTING

ZONZO Compagnie & Aline Goffin (BE)
Photo of Aline Goffin, her fingers forming glasses in front of her eyes, an electric guitar hanging from a strap in front of her, wearing a striking glittery fringed jacket.
© Karolina Maruszak

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

TRAUMTELEFON LIVE

Philipp Parteder, Dominik Artner & Robin Gader (AT)
The young audience at the BIG BANG Festival sits eagerly on the floor awaiting the next performance. A girl in the front row claps her hands ecstatically, while a boy two seats away from her wears a BIG BANG cardboard crown.
© Paul Stambera

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

MOBILE TOUCH

Frank Baldé & Fedde ten Berge (BE)
Photo of children standing around a novel, technically sophisticated-looking instrument or trying it out – ‘Mobile Touch’, a sound project from the BIG BANG Festival 2026.
© Karolina Maruszak

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

LIMUKA 4 KIDS (AT)

Logo for "LiMuKa" – the "Live Music Karaoke" project where anyone who wants to can cover songs on stage accompanied by a live band. The logo consists of the word "Limuka" in red neon lettering and the addition "Live Music Karaoke" in light blue lettering.
© LiMuKa

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

RÖHR'N & RIFF'N

Veronika Kulenkampff (AT)
Photo from the BIG BANG Festival, showing children and adults working together at a kind of craft table.
© Paul Stambera

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

FESTIVALREPORTER:INNEN

Niederösterreichische Nachrichten (AT)
Photo from the BIG BANG Festival, showing a table surrounded by children and adults, with a colourful garland hanging in the background.
© Paul Stambera

Concert/projection Let's go on a journey back into film history! The video artist Erato Tzavara and the musician Filipe Raposo present selected silent films with newly composed music, played live by Raposo on the piano, the Tonkünstler Orchester and the multi-instrumentalist Rémi Decker. The interplay of image and sound transforms the films into a fascinating spectacle.

Location: Großer Saal
Duration: 50 minutes

Trailer: BIG BANG Festival 2026

© Paul Stambera

Weitere Termine

In the foreground, you can see the multi-instrumentalist from the ZONZO Compagnie, and behind him, facing him, you can see an audience.
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15.00

Zigoto

ZONZO COMPAGNIE

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Bühne im Hof
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Kleiner Saal
Festspielhaus/Bühne im Hof: Die ganze Familie Family Dance for young audiences
Kleiner Saal
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Regierungsviertel + Kulturbezirk St. Pölten

Free Entrance

Performance Family Festival Live music
Regierungsviertel + Kulturbezirk St. Pölten

Free Entrance

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