Italy, the cradle of opera, was the cultural centre of Europe for centuries. The most famous instrumentalists and composers were educated here, and European writers travelled here to overcome their writer's block. We juxtapose original Italian music with music inspired by cultural exchange and read from Goethe's ‘Italian Journey’. Listen to works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonio Vivaldi and Isabella Leonarda.

Chamber Music IV: Where the lemons bloom – Italy, a place of yearning

Deutsche Oper Berlin

This season, too, an unusual and personal programme will be presented under the title "Spotlights": musicians of the orchestra will play works that are particularly close to their hearts. The programme ranges from world-famous pieces of the chamber music repertoire to real rarities that are hardly ever heard in the concert hall. Listen to favourite pieces, rarities and evergreens

Chamber Music I: Spotlights

This chamber music evening is all about mythological transformation stories in text and music: Richard Strauss' "Metamorphoses", Benjamin Britten's "Narcissus" and works by Karol Szymanowski and Thea Musgrave will be performed.

Chamber Music VI: In the mirror

This season, too, an unusual and personal programme will be presented under the title "Spotlights": musicians of the orchestra will play works that are particularly close to their hearts. The programme ranges from world-famous pieces of the chamber music repertoire to real rarities that are hardly ever heard in the concert hall. Listen to favourite pieces, rarities and evergreens, including works by Bohuslav Martinů, Ernest Chausson and Rebecca Clarke.

Chamber Music IV: Spotlights

Artistic creation in times of war: This concert features works and presentations by composers who responded to wars and battles with personal trauma or escape into fantastic parallel worlds. Listen to works by Lili Boulanger and Viktor Ullmann, among others.

Magdalena Makowska

Events

Past events

Mar 16, 2026

Chamber Music IV: Where the lemons bloom – Italy, a place of yearning · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Nov 3, 2025

Chamber Music I: Spotlights · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Metamorphosen by Strauss

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Violin in Narcissus by Musgrave

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Violin in Mythes by Szymanowski

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Violin in Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by Britten

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Violin in From a spring morning by Boulanger

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Violin in From a sad evening by Boulanger

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Violin in Battaglia-Suite by Scheidt

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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