The 2025-26 Season opens with a special performance featuring Peter Grünberg and John Parr! renowned pianists and master coaches — BOTH of whom are former chiefs of the San Francisco Opera music staff! — will offer us this delectable and eclectic program of four-hand piano music.

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Season Opening Concert

Music at Maybeck's Masterpiece

Old First Presbyterian Church

Kurt Erickson, Ten Year Composer-in Residence Celebration! 1

Maybeck Studio

Classical art songs and modern poetry – lieder recital meets poetry reading in this series of events organised jointly with the Haus für Poesie Berlin. Each of the four evening events held in the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin will feature a poet reading original works whose themes complement the songs on the programme.

Songs and Poets: Evening sentiment

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Songs and Poets: Drink soul! Drink loneliness!

Songs and Poets: Natural Histories

Kurt Erickson Ten-Year Composer-in-Residence Celebration!

First Church of Christ Scientist

Kurt Erickson, Ten Year Composer-in Residence Celebration!

Even though Italy's great composers are primarily known for their operas, almost all of them also wrote wonderful songs. Accompanying the new production of LA FIAMMA, the first evening of ‘Songs and Poets’ provides an insight into this little-known repertoire with works by Ottorino Respighi and his contemporaries and shows how this tradition was continued right up to Luciano Berio's ‘Quattro canzoni popolari’.

John Parr

Events

Past events

14 - 21 Sep, 2025

Season Opening Concert · Lieder Alive

16 - 23 Feb, 2025

Kurt Erickson, Ten Year Composer-in Residence Celebration! 1 · Lieder Alive

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Sechs Lieder by Strauss

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Piano in Shéhérazade by Ravel

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Piano in Four Last Songs by Strauss

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Piano in Seven Early Songs by Berg

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Piano in Don Quichotte à Dulcinée by Ravel

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Piano in Histoires naturelles by Ravel

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Piano in Nachtstücke by Reimann

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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