The Present is a solo voice ensemble from Berlin that interweaves early and new music in its programmes, always pursuing a conceptual approach and enjoying to play with the boundaries of style and genre. The ensemble made its concert debut at the Schwetzingen Festival in 2019. This was followed by performances with differently cast, mostly custom-made programmes at the Thuringian Bach Festival, the Göttingen International Handel Festival, the zamus: early music festival in Cologne, the Acht Brücken Festival in Cologne, the Schlossmediale Werdenberg and the Bregenz Festival, among others. Musical theatre produc- tions increasingly come into focus as well. In 2022, for example, The Present celebrated the premiere of the three-part production THE PRESENT RETTET DIE WELT (The Present saves the World) at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin and developed its first own performative work HÄNDEL IM AFFEKT (Handel in the Heat of the Moment) during its residency at the zamus Cologne.