Composer

Ryan Ha, oboe

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Salome lives at the decadent court of her mother Herodias and her stepfather Herod, surrounded by intrigue and moral decay. She projects her sensual and erotic desires onto the imprisoned, ascetic prophet Jochanaan – but when he rejects her in disgust, her obsession escalates to monstrous proportions. She demands Jochanaan's head from Herod on a silver platter, thereby sealing her own downfall...

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Salome

Globe Coburg

Since becoming Music Director of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra in 2023, Chad Goodman has been praised for taking the orchestra to new artistic heights and dramatically expanding its impact in the community. In his first two seasons he led the ESO premieres of more than a dozen works, increased community engagement through run-out concerts and engaging presentations in Elgin and neighboring cities, and spearheaded the orchestra’s first ever Día de los Muertos concert, uniting the symphony with folkloric dance and vocals in a city-wide cultural celebration.

Pictures at an Exhibition

Hemmens Auditorium

First appearing with the MSO in 2011, violin virtuoso Andrew Sords returns to Merchant Hall for his third performance, this time showcasing Richard Strauss’s vibrant and youthful Violin Concerto in D Minor. Composed when Strauss was only 17, the concerto may be less frequently performed than his later tone poems and operas, but it remains a captivating showcase of late-Romantic virtuosity and artistic promise.

The concert opens with Leopold Stokowski’s dramatic orchestral arrangement of J. S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, made famous by Disney’s Fantasia. Inspired by a walking tour through the ruins of Holyrood Chapel in Edinburgh, Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 in A Minor (“Scottish”) brings the program — and the MSO’s season — to an exuberant close.

German Masters

Hylton Performing Arts Center

The works on this program are the quintessence of Romantic-era expression, with a focus on themes of individualism and emotionalism, and a lush, hyper-dramatic musical vocabulary. The performance begins with the Prelude from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde and depicts the passions and frustration of the doomed lovers.

Radiant Romance

Florida State University

Violin virtuoso Andrew Sords returns for his third performance with the MSO, showcasing Richard Strauss’s vibrant and youthful “Violin Concerto in D Minor.” Composed when Strauss was only 17, the Concerto is a captivating showcase of late-Romantic virtuosity and artistic promise. The concert opens with Leopold Stokowski’s dramatic orchestral arrangement of J.S. Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor,” made famous by Disney’s Fantasia. Inspired by the ruins of Holyrood Chapel in Edinburgh, Felix Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 3 in A Minor” brings the program and MSO’s season to a close.

German Masters With Andrew Sords, violin

The ascetic prophet Jochanaan, who preaches repentance, seems to offer her an escape from this world. However, he rejects her longing. Full of immature anger, she demands his head. When Salome kisses the prophet's bloody mouth, her stepfather Herod orders her to be killed.

Vienna State Opera

Themes of motherhood, loss, and joy emerge in a program that spans opera, Indigenous voices, and folk tradition, with song and spirit rising together like flame and tide.

Songs of River & Fire

Desautels Concert Hall

April’s concert programme in the Bethlehem Chapel includes a wide variety of musical works that will attract chamber music lovers and fans of instrumental concerts.  The first part of the concert will feature the Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra by the French composer Jean-Michel Jolivet. This will be followed by the Concertino for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni, whose work is characterised by its delicate melodies and sophisticated instrumentation.

Robert Jindra presents

The Bethlehem Chapel

Kyle Cho, horn

Madeleine Zuckerman, soprano

Musicians from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra serve a four-course meal of strings on a silver platter. We hear Strauss’ final opera, a string quartet by Nancy Dalberg and enthusiastic dialogues for viola and violin composed by Clarke and Mozart.

Soulful strings

Göteborgs Symfoniker

Alitalia was the name of Italy’s premier airline for 75 years. We borrow it here because all three composers on this program owed a creative debt to the culture and vibrancy of that wonderful country.

In a letter written to Sibelius in 1901, Baron Carpelan strongly encourages his fellow Finn to go abroad:  "You have been sitting at home for quite a while, Mr. Sibelius, it is high time for you to travel. You will spend the winter in Italy, a country where one learns cantabile, balance and harmony. You remember what Italy meant for Tchaikovsky’s development and for Richard Strauss."

The lure of Italy to those who live in cold Northern Europe cannot be understated. Composer after composer went south and brought back their musical memories of that country of sunshine and warmth, of folksong and dance, and of landscapes from seaside to mountain.

For Strauss it was about finding external inspiration like the story of Till Eulenspiegel; for Tchaikovsky, it was exposure to folk tunes he heard on the streets of Florence; and for Sibelius, it was where he jotted down the first ideas that would become his Second Symphony. All thanks to Italy…

Alitalia

Mount Saint Mary College

RPO: Space! 2026

Eastman Theatre

Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor Maxim Emelyanychev takes the podium and leads the orchestra initially in Salonen's symphonic poem Nyx inspired by the shadow like godess with the same name in Greek mythology. The South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son then joins for Witold Lutosławski's Variations on a Theme by Paganini, based on Niccolò Paganini's famous Caprice No. 24 for solo violin, known for its virtuosic demands and catchy theme, as well as Richard Strauss' humorous Burleske. The concert concludes with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 3, nicknamed 'Rhenish,' inspired by the composer's time in the Rhineland.

Emelyanychev interprets Salonen & Schumann

Berwaldhallen

Centering the program is Igor Stravinsky’s monumental Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), infamous for its avant-garde music and ballet choreography. A lighter take on the season is Lili Boulanger’s vivacious yet introspective D’un matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning). Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, Op. 20 depicts the legendary ill-fated bachelor.

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

Northwestern University

Cynthia Hu, soprano

First performed in Dresden in 1924, Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo provides all manner of insights into his turbulent married life.

Intermezzo

Semperoper Dresden

Ax & Alexander

Artis–Naples

Seduction is the subtext in this program that pairs Richard Strauss’s portrait of the famous fictional philanderer and Ravel’s Bolero, whose relentless pulse mirrors the beat of desire. Beyond the bedroom, we turn our gaze to galaxies far, far away, as Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’sContact imagines encounters with other beings.

Bolero and Don Juan

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan, one of the singular artists of our time, transforms Poulenc’s one-act opera into a harrowing multimedia experience depicting the final conversation between ex-lovers. Also on the program: Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, a profound memorial for human culture devastated by war.

La Voix humaine with Barbara Hannigan

David Geffen Hall

You know when you’re asked to do something and your gut reaction is, “Absolutely not!” and then you can’t get the idea out of your head? That’s exactly what happened to 80-year-old Richard Strauss when a young American oboist suggested he write a concerto. Thank goodness he gave it more thought.

Brahms Symphony No. 4

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

Richard Strauss's Serenade, Op. 7, is the work of a 17-year-old. The young master was still attending high school when he completed his piece. But the famous conductor Hans von Bülow championed the work and laid the foundation for Strauss's success. After the performance, the young composer burst with pride and self-confidence: "Well, the serenade was well-received," he wrote to his father, "it was almost as successful as Weingartner's [string serenade], which is very pretty, although after Bülow, mine is the best of the three pieces [in the concerto]."

NDR Elb Philharmonic Orchestra / Vadim Gluzman / Martin Frost / Sakari Oramo

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

The MSU Symphony Orchestra closes the season with a high-energy program of dance-inspired music from around the world. Highlights include Strauss’s elegant Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Juan Pablo Contreras’s vibrant Mariachitlán, Carlos Simon’s jazz-infused Hellfighters’ Blues, and Ravel’s hypnotic Boléro. Also included is a Sam and Mary Austin Fanfare composed by an MSU College of Music student. Join us for a season finale where rhythm and movement ignite orchestral brilliance. Octavio Más-Arocas, conductor.

Symphony Orchestra, “Rhythms in Motion: A Celebration of Dance”

Michigan State University

Erik DeMario, tenor and Jeremy Lee, piano

Górecki’s Three Pieces in Old Style opens this program, followed by harpist Yumiko Schlaffer performing Debussy’s Danse sacrée et danse profane. After intermission the orchestra performs Metamorphosen by Richard Struass; Richard McKay conducts.

Strauss: Metamorphosen

Moody Performance Hall

Violinist Ivan Ženatý and pianist Martin Kasík—two of the Czech Republic’s most esteemed artists—bring their long-standing musical partnership to the Suk Hall of the Rudolfinum. In a programme shaped by nuance and depth, they explore the contrasting Romanticism of Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss, each offering a distinct reflection of their time and temperament.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Ženatý, Kasík

Rudolfinum

Ahead of your visit this summer, discover more about Der Rosenkavalier in this insight talk inc conversation with classical music critic Fiona Maddocks and director Bruno Ravella with musical excerpts performed by singers from our Emerging Artists’ Programme.

Fiona Maddocks is a music critic who specialises in classical music. She has worked in radio, TV, magazines and newspapers, including as founder editor of BBC Music Magazine. Maddocks is also The Observer’s classical music critic. Bruno Ravella is an international opera director and made his debut at Garsington in 2015 with Strauss’ Intermezzo, and is returning this year to direct Der Rosenkavalier" class="css-u850">Der Rosenkavalier which first debuted at Garsington in 2021. Together they will discuss the historical context behind Der Rosenkavalier and tell us more about Strauss and his musical world.

Insight Talk: Der Rosenkavalier

Garsington Studios

This concert program features three masterpieces that impressively reflect the diversity of the Romantic era. The program opens with Carl Maria von Weber's Symphony No. 1, which combines both vitality and melodic beauty. Richard Strauss's symphonic poem "Don Juan" transports the audience into a passionate world of heroic myth. The concert concludes with Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 7, an emotionally intense work that impressively reflects the expressive power of the Romantic era. Sebastian Weigle, General Music Director of the Frankfurt Opera from 2008 to 2023, leads the Graz Philharmonic through this fascinating program.

4th Music Association Concert

Stefaniensaal

Adam Uliassi, trombone

Katelyn Cox, soprano

Explaining his orchestral arrangement of Brahms's First Piano Quartet, Arnold Schoenberg told a music critic: "1. I love the piece. 2. It is rarely played. 3. It is always played very poorly because the better the pianist, the louder he plays, and you can't hear anything from the strings." In the end, Schoenberg created a new soundscape that develops a completely unique appeal without denying its origins. Complemented by Brahms's own arrangement of the Liebeslieder Waltzes and Richard Strauss's setting of Goethe's Op. 14, this program is conducted by Giuseppe Mengoli, one of the most versatile young conductors of our time.

Lieben Sie Brahms?

Gewandhaus

Congress Centrum Suhl

Featuring our Young Artists Competition winners and cinematic favorites. The music of the movies!

The Magic of Cinema

Maryland Hall

Few operas have more to say about remaining true (to yourself) in matters of art and love than Ariadne auf Naxos: should you cling to the one you love unconditionally, or remain open to new loves?

Ariadne auf Naxos

Bebelplatz

This season, the Staatskapelle Berlin and its General Music Director Christian Thielemann will perform at three venues and three renowned European concert halls: the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Munich Isarphilharmonie, and the Vienna Musikverein. In addition to Brahms's impressive German Requiem , they will perform orchestral songs by Strauss and Beethoven's Pastorale – music by composers with whom the orchestra is particularly familiar and with whom it has repeatedly and intensly explored for many years.

Staatskapelle Berlin: Guest performance

Gasteig HP8

Vienna Music Society

Set in the glittering world of 18th-century Vienna, the story follows a complicated love triangle: a noblewoman, her younger lover, and a sweet young bride-to-be. There's a cheeky disguise, a silver rose, and plenty of laughs along the way all with gorgeous melodies and rich emotions.

Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss

Dairy Arts Center

Eastern European folk music with classical harmonies and is . Bengtson will be accompanied by the Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen and the Radio Symphony Orchestra, who will also perform a world premiere by the Estonian composer Mirjam Tally and a suite based on Richard Strauss' modernist and psychological opera Elektra.

Strauss’ Elektra suite

The war is over, and tragedy takes its course: the mother and her lover murder the father upon his return. The daughter hides her brother, keeping him safe. – Every day, Elektra thinks of her murdered father, plotting blood-stained celebrations of victory and waiting for the moment when her brother, reared as an avenger, returns...

Elektra

Hamburg State Opera

Although she is surrounded by many admirers, Arabella dreams only of the «right one». She finds him in Mandryka, the Croatian landowner. Opera history’s final idealized marriage of love was written on the precipice of disaster: The opera dates to a time of deep social insecurity. The operetta-like tone of Strauss’ «Lyrischer Komödie» is strangely fractured. When it premiered in Dresden in 1933, it was instrumentalized by the Nazis for propaganda purposes. 

Arabella

Zurich Opera House

Richard Strauss composed more than 40 orchestral songs over a period of decades – all of them are to be performed over several seasons, with a whole range of outstanding singers. No two songs are alike, each one possesses its own tonal characteristics; the range of Strauss’s song art is truly enormous. With his 6th Symphony, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote himself into history as one of the founders of a special kind of “programmatic music”. The Sinfonia pastorale , as he called it, became a powerful work and yet is full of accessibility, grace and charm – in the form of five musical scenes of sharp profile and concise expression that tell of nature and rural life.

Symphony Concert VI

Music Director Guillermo Figueroa conducts The Santa Fe Symphony in two glorious works from the 19th century. The concert opens with Beethoven’s 1st Symphony, a beautiful glance backward to the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote: Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, performed by guest cellist David Finckel, concludes the program.

beethoven & strauss

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Explore the wonders of the universe with the San Diego Symphony in a family-friendly concert that’s out of this world! Start with the awe-inspiring "Sunrise Fanfare" from Also sprach Zarathustra, then travel to the stars with Mozart’s "Jupiter" Symphony and Jessie Montgomery’s sparkling Starburst. Ivan Trevino’s Space Junk, featuring the Wind Sync quintet, takes you on a world-premiere voyage through the cosmos. John Williams’ iconic Star Wars theme complete the interstellar adventure. Join us for a morning of music that celebrates the mysteries and magic of space!

Space Junk (A Family Concert)

Jacobs Music Center

Canadian Barbara Hannigan is an absolute world star! A unique figure who generously demonstrates her multi-talent as both conductor and singer in one and the same concert. This evening is no exception, when Richard Strauss' music-philosophical masterpiece of Zarathustra, a major work by Ligeti and a world premiere of Laura Bowler are on the program.

Hannigan and Zarathustra

The Conservatory Concert Hall

A remarkable immersive take on Strauss’s masterpiece, and our 20th-century palate cleanser after the Ring.

York Hall Leisure Centre

Xian Conducts Prokofiev & Strauss

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Count Basie Center for the Arts

Between sonic power and subtle wit, Brahms's Tragic Overture unfolds a dark, passionate soundscape that deeply moves the listener. This is followed by Strauss's Don Juan , an opulent firework display of drama and sensuality that musically brings the world of the legendary seducer to life. In subito con forza , we encounter a stark, high-contrast reflection on Beethoven – explosive and captivating. Finally, Beethoven himself appears in his Eighth Symphony, winking and surprising, virtuosic and anything but tame.

4th Symphony Concert

Theater tent at Küchengarten

David Danzmayr and violinist Kevin Lin bring fresh energy with Kats-Chernin’s Dance of the Paper Umbrellas and Piazzolla’s tango-infused Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Schubert’s haunting “Unfinished” Symphony and the lush Der Rosenkavalier Suite by Strauss complete a captivating, dance-filled performance.

Rhythm of Dance: Schubert and Strauss

Hilbert Circle Theatre

EXPRESS CONCERT: Andrew Brady and Sang Yoon Kim Play Strauss’s Duet-Concertino

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

St. Paul's United Church of Christ

Why are we here, and what comes next? Throughout time, humans have wrestled with these questions, resulting in compositions like Richard Strauss’ radiant swan song, Rachmaninov’s haunting depiction of the journey of souls to the afterlife, Janáček’s portrait of hope and solidarity in a Siberian prison camp and Wagner’s spine-tingling meditation on eternal love.

Songs of Love and Farewell

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Framed by the near-pictural precision of Strauss and the exhilarating breath of Sibelius, Bartók's diabolical Concerto No.2 crackles under the bow of Renaud Capuçon!

Orchestre de Paris / Esa-Pekka Salone

Philharmonie de Paris

A trail of violence runs through the cursed dynasty of the Atrides long before this opera begins: Elektra's grandfather fed his own sons to his brother, her father Agamemnon sacrificed Elektra's sister Iphigenia, the desperate mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisth slaughtered Agamemnon with an axe in the bath. The children cannot find peace either: Elektra cannot mourn, desperate and raw, she dwells on her hatred. Like must be repaid in kind, the murderous mother and her lover must die. While her sister Chrysotemis refuses to join her, her brother Orest is to take vengeance for their beloved father: The next generation picks up the axe...

German Oper am Rhein

Leah Amory, violin

Curtis Institute of Music

How can there be music in the worst place in the world? Told through the words of victims of the camp who played and created music during the terrors of the Holocaust, this film shows how, in the most brutal and dehumanising situations, music could be a lifeline, a way to give testimony and even a way to resist.

The Lost Music Of Auschwitz

Dorchester Abbey

Strauss’ Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) traces the final moments of a life: memories surface, struggles fade, and a soul wins its final release. Under the baton of Simone Young, the NSO displays the full scope of Strauss’ vision and the promise of beyond. Winner of the prestigious International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition Sergey Khachatryan brings fire to Sibelius’ Violin Concerto.

Death and Transfiguration Khachatryan plays Sibelius

Kennedy Center

Famous classical hits galore – presented by a cult ensemble consisting of 100% cellos! Music to relax to, presented by the Concertgebouw Orchestra's renowned cello section. Our tip: reserve your tickets well in advance!

Pure Cello

The Baden-Baden Casino

With a varied and original choice of music, exchanges and a convivial atmosphere with the musicians, the Apéro series offers unique and privileged encounters. The program features powerful 20th-century works for strings.

Toute la puissance des cordes

Palais Montcalm – Maison de la musique

Halfway between a quartet and a chamber orchestra, the string sextet (i.e., two violins, two violas, two cellos) opens a sound field that Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss play wonderfully. The former paints a wordless opera that earned him the nickname "Spring Sextet," carrying a flood of images that the filmmaker Louis Malle would later dress up in Les Amants ; the latter disguises the sextet as an operatic opening, to touch on the timeless character that floats over his final Capriccio .

National Sundays / Adrien La Marca

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Conductors Orchestra – Jae Hwan Lee, conductor (Doctoral Recital)

Auer Hall

Following last season’s powerful performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Colburn Orchestra and conductor Earl Lee return to Walt Disney Concert Hall with another larger-than-life program. Two atmospheric works—Samy Moussa’s 2021 work Elysium and Richard Strauss’s famous symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, best known for its use in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey—bookend the concert with soaring melodies and theatrical tone shifts. In between, the lush orchestration and sparkling virtuosity of Max Bruch’s violin concerto provide a break from the musical theatrics.

Orchestral Constellations: Strauss, Bach, and Moussa

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Following last season’s powerful performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Colburn Orchestra and conductor Earl Lee return to Walt Disney Concert Hall with another larger-than-life program. Two atmospheric works—Samy Moussa’s 2021 piece Elysium and Richard Strauss’ famous symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, best known for its use in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey—bookend the concert with soaring melodies and theatrical tone shifts. In between, the lush orchestration and sparkling virtuosity of Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto provide a break from the musical theatrics.

Colburn Orchestra

The Viennese aristocracy are no strangers to family feuds: boorish Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau interrupts the morning tête-à-tête between his cousin, the Marschallin, and her young lover Octavian, to ask for her help with his wedding plans, which are steered more by financial gain than love. Ochs does not suspect that Octavian himself, who is chosen to deliver the engagement rose, will eventually fall in love with the bride.

Der Rosenkavalier

Prepare for an interstellar musical journey across the cosmos as we pay tribute to the most iconic space movie film scores ever composed.

Explore “the final frontier” with this electrifying concert that blends the magic of science fiction with the power of a live orchestra.

Hollywood Spectacular "Out of this World"

California Theatre

Aphrodite Patoulidou, Soprano

Fox Cities Performing Arts Center

A Journey | Frost Symphony Orchestra

University of Miami

Renowned violinist Gil Shaham returns for a program featuring incredible artistry with Brahms’ Violin Concerto.

Symphonic Spectacular: Gil Shaham Plays Brahms Dress Rehearsal

Saenger Theatre Pensacola

Renowned violinist Gil Shaham returns for an evening of incredible artistry with Brahms’ Violin Concerto.

Symphonic Spectacular: Gil Shaham Plays Brahms

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider does double duty as soloist and conductor in Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, one of the most cherished works in the concerto repertoire. Szeps-Znaider also conducts Richard Strauss’s mischievous Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks and one of the 19th century’s towering musical achievements, Elgar’s Enigma Variations.

Enigma Variations & Bruch’s Violin Concerto

Be transported through lush landscapes with Respighi’s The Pines of Rome. From playful moments in the Villa Borghese, to the moonlit serenity of the Janiculum, to the mystical sounds of the Appian Way at dawn, this is a captivating journey among the iconic pine trees of the Eternal City.

Respighi's The Pines of Rome

Salt Palace Convention Center

This evening, we will perform one of the most beautiful and moving piano concertos and one of the most impressive soundscapes – under the direction of our new Chief Conductor Felix Mildenberger, who will officially assume his post as General Music Director on August 1, 2026. Our "Artist in Residence," Alexander Krichel, expressly requested that he conduct this concert.

6th Philharmonic Concert

Kleist Forum

Artistic Director Elisabeth Linton and Principal Conductor Marie Jacquot lead a new production of Richard Strauss’s lavish opera.

In Der Rosenkavalier, satire, comedy, melancholy, and romance merge with dazzling music. The Royal Danish Opera’s Artistic Director, Elisabeth Linton, stages the production, with Principal Conductor Marie Jacquot leading the orchestra.

Royal Danish Opera

Offering music that evokes strength, resilience, and triumph, this concert leaves a lasting impression. Two stars of the classical music world make their debuts: Eun Sun Kim, San Francisco Opera Music Director, conducts Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben ("A Hero’s Life"), and pianist Javier Perianes brings rich tone and expressiveness to Schumann's impassioned Piano Concerto.

A Hero's Journey: Schumann & Strauss

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Mendelssohn and Strauss were teenagers when they wrote their Piano Sextet and first Horn Concerto respectively. Mendelssohn chose the unusual combination of two violas, cello and double bass alongside violin and piano, and with this dark, sumptuous palette he creates a rich symphonic soundscape.

Fanfare: Mendelssohn, Strauss and Beethoven

Smith Square Hall

In this concert, Richard Strauss's monumental tone poem "Ein Heldenleben" meets two impressive female voices of the 20th century who asserted themselves forcefully in a male-dominated music world.

6th Symphony Concert

Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle

Since 2010, chamber music ensembles of the Staatskapelle have been performing at the Bode Museum, a jewel of Berlin's museum landscape. Matinee concerts lasting just over an hour in the Gobelin Hall, with diverse programs that include music from the Baroque and Classical periods as well as works from the Romantic and Modern periods, can easily lead into further hours in the museum—for example, with a guided tour of the exhibition and the "Artwork of the Day," a private tour, or a culinary finale in the stylish museum café.

Museum Concert VI

UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Museumsinsel

An enticing selection of art songs spans familiar and overlooked repertoire from myriad styles, all rooted in great literature with settings of Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, and Strauss’s opulent Four Last Songs with texts by Hermann Hesse. South African soprano Golda Schultz, who has starred at the Opéra National de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, and BBC Proms, brings this program to life with her “remarkable depth and dimension” and “distinctively thrilling radiance” (Financial Times).

Golda Schultz, soprano (Baltimore Debut) Jonathan Ware, piano (Baltimore Debut)

Johns Hopkins University

In "Death and Transfiguration," the 26-year-old Richard Strauss intended to depict "the hour of death of a man who had strove for the highest ideals—hence, presumably, of an artist." The heroic "transfiguration theme," which embodies these ideals, was borrowed by film composer John Williams for his soundtrack to "Superman." The trumpet concerto by Johann Georg Neruda, a Bohemian composer of the 18th century, is in the "heroic key" of E-flat major. In its original form, the concerto was a horn concerto for a virtuoso in the Saxon Court Orchestra, tailored precisely to his abilities. Its triumphant success began in the 1960s in a version for trumpet. By a roundabout route and after much refinement, Johannes Brahms arrived at his Symphony No. 1. Here, Brahms heroically emancipates himself from Beethoven, a role model he perceived as overpowering, in a hymn-like finale.

Composer

Richard Strauss

Events

Upcoming events

May 11, 2025 - May 10, 2026

6th Chamber Concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Sep 20, 2025 - Jul 11, 2026

Wie du warst! Wie du bist! · Opernhaus Zürich

Jan 11 - Nov 15, 2026

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra · Teatro alla Scala

Feb 20 - May 9, 2026

UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra 2026 · UC Berkeley Department of Music

Apr 7 - Jun 4, 2026

Elektra · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Past events

May 3, 2026

Ryan Ha, oboe · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

May 2 - Jun 7, 2026

Salome · Landestheater Coburg

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