American Grammy-winning soprano Angel Blue is at the top of the opera world. She sings regularly at The Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the San Francisco Opera and other major venues in the United States. She has won no less than two Grammy Awards, one for the Metropolitan Opera's recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess .

Tivoli / Angel Blue – America's new soprano star

Tivolis Koncertsal

Ved denne koncert vender den populære cellist Andreas Brantelid tilbage til Tivoli som solist i Richard Strauss’ tonedigt Don Quixote. Det er musik, som fortæller historien om adelsmanden Don Quixote fra Cervantes ridderroman. Værket er som en gigantisk cellokoncert, hvor Andreas Brantelid – med sin cello – skildrer Don Quixote, der rejser ud i verden for at bekæmpe ondskab. Tivoli Copenhagen Phil dirigeres af Christoph Gedschold, som også har Mozarts vidunderlige symfoni nr. 40 med.

Tivoli / Brantelid og Strauss’ Don Quixote

Let yourself be carried away by big, passionate emotions and intense opera intrigue when the opera diva Angela Gheorghiu, one of the world's most breathtaking sopranos, takes the stage with the Tivoli Copenhagen Phil. Her velvety soprano voice has touched and enchanted audiences worldwide, and this evening you can experience heart-warming opera arias by, among others, Puccini and Francesco Cilea. Expect both tears and smiles when one of the world's greatest opera singers fills Tivoli's golden concert hall with her voice.

Tivoli / Opera gala with Angela Gheorghiu

Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is much more than a symphony. It is the ultimate musical call for peace and community on earth. "Ode to joy" , the majestic anthem in the last movement, is known all over the world and even named the EU's official European anthem! But Beethoven's symphony was something special from the very beginning – the grandest and strangest symphony ever heard. But the audience loved the music, and we still do. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the symphony, and it must be celebrated!

Tivoli / Beethoven's 9th Symphony - in peace and togetherness

The world's best piano concert? In Rachmaninov's grandiose Piano Concerto No. 2, the listener is thrown into a rushing sea of ​​emotions of breakneck virtuosity and catchy melodies to a degree that time and again excites audiences around the world. At the piano sits the star pianist Denis Kozhukhin under the direction of Christoph Gedschold – Copenhagen Phil's future new chief conductor!

Sibelius and Rachmaninov

Konservatoriets Koncertsal

Copenhagen Phil conducted by Christoph Gedschold

Copenhagen Phil – Sibelius and Rachmaninov

The hair on the back of the neck bristles from the first bar and lifts the listener to another world. Bruckner called his magnificent Symphony No. 4 'The Romantic' - because the symphony is a musical journey into the composer's magical and beauty-worshiping universe. Together with Haydn's Symphony No. 90, Copenhagen Phil presents two Austrians' finest symphonic creations. On top of that, with the orchestra's upcoming new chief conductor on the conductor's podium!

Haydn and Bruckner 4

Welcome to a genuine romantic program with music by Mendelssohn, Schubert and Brahms. Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider is back as violinist in Brahms' beloved violin concerto, which caused the composer so much anguish. Before that Schubert's Unfinished  and Mendelssohn's Overture to  the Hebrides.  You don't get any closer to the DNA of romance.

Brahms' violin concerto with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and Schubert's Unfulfilled

The season opener is also the inauguration concert for Copenhagen Phil's new chief conductor, Christoph Gedschold. Gedschold is one of the most interesting names among the upcoming generation of top German conductors - and in addition to being Copenhagen Phil's new chief conductor, he is also chief conductor of the Leipzig Opera and thus in permanent collaboration with one of the world's absolute leading orchestras, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. The 47-year-old German maestro has a great passion for the religious aura of Bruckner's sonorous symphonic universe.

Season opening and new chief conductor

Roskilde Cathedral

Bach's monumental Mass in B minor was his last major church work. And what a work! A stroke of genius that sums up the master's entire work as a church musician, where soloists, choir and orchestra merge and unite the earthly with the divine in the composer's greatest masterpiece.

Bach's B minor fair

Experience an abundance of symphonic sensory impressions when Copenhagen Phil performs its very first Melodrama – a completely new hybrid genre, where original classical music is performed together with newly written movements. The performance unfolds a magnificent stage show with video projections, a giant LED screen and performers who rap, sing and tell a story. In short, a classical music experience that has never been seen or heard before. 

From the New World – Melodrama #1

Copenhagen Phil is of course joining forces with the Copenhagen Boys' Choir again this year and offers one of the Christmas month's best offers for a musical Christmas tradition: Bach's immortal Christmas Oratorio . So leave the hustle and bustle of Christmas and gift shopping out for a few hours and follow along to Bach's wonderful Christmas world full of jubilant choirs, serious hymns and poignant arias.

The Christmas oratorio

Copenhagen Cathedral

Maribo Cathedral

St. Peter's Church

Gustav Mahler was at the peak of his career when he composed his mighty Symphony No. 5. The breathtaking masterpiece contains the composer's entire outer and inner world: from the fateful to sorrow, impotence, folk life and the intoxicating love for his wife Alma. The love is expressed in the symphony's famous, passionate and beloved 4th movement – ​​with the heart-rending tenderness of the strings and harp.

Mahler's 5th.

Haydn's symphony no. 45 is humorous total theatre, where the musicians leave the stage individually during the course. Stage presence, on the other hand, is required in Schumann's romantic symphony no. 2 on an evening when solo hornist Emilie Ravn Jensen premieres Eva Noer Korndrup's horn concerto composed especially for the Copenhagen Phil.

Haydn and Schumann

It is no exaggeration to call Shostakovich the greatest symphonist of the 20th century. With three masterpieces by the enigmatic composer, chief conductor Christoph Gedschold and Copenhagen Phil show three sides of Shostakovich's musical diversity: A swinging suite, a terrifying cello concerto and an unexpected symphony.

Shostakovich, Shostakovich and Shostakovich

Richard Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder is the aging German composer's unearthly beautiful farewell to life. Now the Danish star soprano Henriette Bonde-Hansen sings them for the very first time. The bubbling orchestral music of Wagner is the heart's blood for chief conductor Christoph Gedschold.

Christoph Gedschold

Events

Upcoming events

19 - 20 Sep, 2024

Season opening and new chief conductor · Copenhagen Phil

Sep 27, 2024

Bach's B minor fair · Copenhagen Phil

Nov 9, 2024

From the New World – Melodrama #1 · Copenhagen Phil

11 - 14 Dec, 2024

The Christmas oratorio · Copenhagen Phil

14 - 15 Feb, 2025

Mahler's 5th. · Copenhagen Phil

Past events

Aug 22, 2024

Tivoli / Angel Blue – America's new soprano star · Copenhagen Phil

Jun 27, 2024

Tivoli / Brantelid og Strauss’ Don Quixote · Copenhagen Phil

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Bruckner

Copenhagen Phil

Conductor in D’un soir triste by Boulanger

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

Conductor in Symphony No. 45 (Farewell Symphony) by Haydn

Copenhagen Phil

Conductor in Symphony No. 90 by Haydn

Copenhagen Phil

Conductor in Cello Concerto No. 1 by Shostakovich

Copenhagen Phil

Conductor in Symphony No. 2 by

Copenhagen Phil

Conductor in Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 by Shostakovich

Copenhagen Phil

Conductor in Piano Concerto No. 2 by

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

Conductor in Symphony No. 3 by

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

Conductor in Horn Concerto by Kondrup

Copenhagen Phil

Conductor in Symphony No. 9 by 9

Copenhagen Phil

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