"The Fantastic" is the theme of this season's chamber concerts in the Apollosaal, based on the season's first opera premiere, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin have developed programs that approach this idea and concept, which play a key role in music, in a variety of ways. Ranging from the Baroque to the present day, with a particular focus on the Romantic period, featuring Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and the multitalented E.T.A. Hoffmann (who, in an idealized form, became the title character in Offenbach's opera), "The Fantastic" will be explored with a variety of chamber music works in diverse ensembles.

Chamber Concert I

Berlin State Opera

For more than six decades, the chamber concerts by musicians from the Staatskapelle have been a constant feature of the Staatsoper programme. This season, ensembles have come together to select music from different periods, styles and cultures under the theme of ‘playing together’. On eleven dates in the Apollosaal, which with its special atmosphere is an ideal venue for chamber music and communicative interaction between players and listeners, works from the Baroque to the present day will be performed in constellations that are both exciting and harmonious, in which tangible contrasts play just as important a role as a common resonance and the balancing of opposites.

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Kam­mer­kon­zert IX

Apollosaal

After the concert, you are cordially invited to explore the museum at your leisure. You can also take advantage of the combined offer of concert and guided tour. The guided tours start after the concert at around 12.30 pm at the equestrian monument in the foyer.

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert VII

Gobelinsaal Bode-Museum

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.

Isa von Wedemeyer

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 22, 2026

Museum Concert V · Staatskapelle Berlin

Past events

Oct 6, 2025

Chamber Concert I · Staatskapelle Berlin

May 12, 2025

Kammerkonzert IX · Staatskapelle Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cello in Piano Trio No. 1 by Brahms

Staatskapelle Berlin

Cello in Piano Quintet No. 1 by Farrenc

Staatskapelle Berlin

Cello in Piano Trio in E major by Hoffmann

Staatskapelle Berlin

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