Sparkling music and sparkling melodies are on the programme of the New Year's Concert - with duets, arias and ensembles from popular operettas, including several evergreens of this champagne-sparkling genre, from global successes such as "The Land of Smiles" or "The Merry Widow", from "The Csárdás Princess" or "The Bat". The New Year's Concert is also a musical homage to a famous Duisburg artist, because with his arias, tenor Sebastian Kohlhepp follows in the footsteps of the legendary Rudolf Schock, who was born in 1915 as the son of a Duisburg dock worker. With his radiant tenor voice, he has captivated an audience of millions and is still considered one of the best operetta tenors of the last century.

The operetta gala is led by the expert conductor Srba Dinić, who is already known to the audience in Duisburg from the “Philharmonic Debate” in March 2024. Also no strangers are soprano Mandy Fredrich , who has been a guest with the orchestra several times, and mezzo-soprano Sarah Ferede, a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

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In the 4th symphony concert, the State Orchestra presents itself in a Christmassy way: Josef Strauss' Polka puts the hall in a holiday mood right at the beginning of the concert. The following suite from Erich Wolfgang Korngold's pantomime "The Snowman" tells the story of Colombine and Pierrot, who disguises himself as a snowman in order to win over his lover. Korngold composed "The Snowman" when he was just 11 years old and was described as a musical prodigy by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, among others. The orchestration was carried out by his teacher Alexander von Zemlinsky.

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Staatstheater Braunschweig

The second period in Gustav Mahler's work began with the Fifth Symphony, composed between 1901 and 1903. This and the two following works were often referred to by experts as "world symphonies". Although Mahler himself did not base his Fifth on any program, it was repeatedly interpreted as programmatic, for example by the conductor, music critic and Mahler contemporary Paul Bekker, who described it as "a redesign of the world from one's own self". At its premiere in Cologne in 1904, the work was not initially a success, with Gustav Mahler himself declaring: "My Fifth Symphony is a cursed work. Nobody understands it."

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In 1800, Beethoven was commissioned to compose by the celebrated dancer and choreographer Salvatore Viganò of the Vienna Ballet Company. His third Viennese production was entitled "The Creatures of Prometheus." In the story of the creation and spiritual awakening of the first human couple, Viganò found ideal material for the pantomimic performance on the dance stage that was common at the time. Beethoven was expected to produce the "musique qui parle," or speaking music, that was necessary for this. However, some numbers of Beethoven's ballet music also contain explosive symphonic pieces. For example, the beginning of the overture, which has survived in the repertoire to this day as an independent concert piece, independent of the ballet, is a clear echo of the beginning of the First Symphony: there, as there, Beethoven opens with a second chord, with an unresolved signal that increases the tension for what is to come. Beethoven's penchant for metric irregularities through syncopation increases the dynamics in this overture, which culminates in a virtuoso coda.

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Climate change and natural disasters have always been phenomena that composers have processed in music. The Braunschweig climate group "Orchester des Wandels eV" is committed to climate protection with its music, weatherman Sven Plöger is developing a presentation with the youth climate group of the Braunschweig State Theater, and two great weather pieces will be played: Alexander Glazunov's "The Seasons" and Ludwig van Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus".

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The symphonic poem "A Night on Bald Mountain" is the only major orchestral work by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, although it was never performed publicly during his lifetime. The piece describes the dance of the witches on Midsummer Night on Lyssaja gora ("Bald Mountain"), a place in Slavic mythology that, like Blocksberg, is considered a meeting place for witches. Walt Disney, among others, used the music of this work in Leopold Stokowski's adaptation as part of his animated film "Fantasia" in concise scenes.

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"Four Songs for Women's Choir" op. 17 are among Brahms' early choral works. He composed them in early 1860 for the Hamburg women's choir he directed. The instrumentation is highly romantic, and the choice of texts represents a small cross-section of literary romanticism and its sources. The first song, "A full harp sound resounds," may also have inspired the combination of voice and instruments. The subjective mood of the poem by Ruperti on which it is based is emphasized by the epic-musical element of horns and harp.

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The “Instrument of the Year 2024” is the focus of this large moderated family film concert for young and young-at-heart music fans: the tuba.

Tubby, the tuba

"A new serious work always attracts great attention, but if its author turns out to be a woman who spurns the easy successes of superficial compositions [...]" (Thérèse Wartel, 1850). The French composer's overture opens the first concert of the "Artist in Residence" Stefan Dohr. The principal horn player of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is shaping the concert program of the season and introduces himself to the Braunschweig audience with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Horn Concerto, which he dedicated to the horn player Joseph Leutgeb and wrote specifically for him, with excellent knowledge of the instrument's possibilities, highly virtuosic and ideally suited to the opening of the residence.

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The French composer Lili Boulanger was the first (female) winner of the Prix de Rome in 1913. In her short life she created numerous works and is considered one of the main figures of French Impressionism. The orchestral version of her composition "D'un matin de printemps" was her last major work. "From a Spring Morning" describes the late romantic intensity of the depiction of nature in its title and goes far beyond contemporary Impressionism.

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Walter Braunfels' opera "The Birds" was a huge success in 1920 - in Munich alone, there were 50 further performances after the premiere, all of which were sold out. This long-standing success came to an abrupt end in 1933: while his contribution to "German culture" was still being appreciated in 1921, the Nazi regime banned his works without further ado: Braunfels was a so-called "half-Jew".

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The birds

Staatstheater Mainz

Mozart's only clarinet concerto is one of his late works and is always associated with his enthusiasm for the warm sound of the clarinet and its adaptability. He composed the concerto for his friend Anton Stadler, through whom he was well informed about the possibilities and peculiarities of the instrument. The melodies cover the entire possible sound spectrum, even in the lower registers. To this day, it is a calling card and one of the highlights in the repertoire of clarinet literature.

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The Don Juan myth has been firmly anchored in European cultural history since the 17th century. It was given a new boost in 1787 by Mozart and Da Ponte's opera adaptation. It was not without reason that ETA Hoffmann called "Don Giovanni" the "opera of all operas": to this day, the work is one of the most frequently performed and staged works in the repertoire. The story of the restless and restless seducer fascinates audiences all over the world.

Don Giovanni

Dora Pejačević (1885 - 1923) was not only a pianist and violinist, but also the first Croatian composer to write orchestral works. Due to her late romantic, harmonically and instrumentally sophisticated sound language, she is considered a representative of the fin de siècle on the threshold of modernity. Since her rediscovery, she has been the central figure in Croatian music history, a "trademark" with a perfume named after her, Dora sparkling wine and a documentary film about her life. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her death in 2023 at the latest, her orchestral works are now also anchored in the programs of German concert halls: above all her Symphony in F sharp major, which Arthur Nikisch put on the program of the Leipzig Gewandhaus after its great success in Dresden, and her Overture for large orchestra from 1919, which will be heard in this concert.

Srba Dinić

Events

Upcoming events

16 - 17 Feb, 2025

6th Symphony Concert · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Mar 16 - Jun 15, 2025

The birds · Staatstheater Braunschweig

20 - 21 Apr, 2025

8th Symphony Concert · Staatstheater Braunschweig

May 11 - Jun 8, 2025

Don Giovanni · Staatstheater Braunschweig

8 - 9 Jun, 2025

10th Symphony Concert · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Past events

Jan 1, 2025

Operetta Gala New Year's Concert 2025 · Duisburger Philharmoniker

Dec 23, 2024

4th Symphony Concert · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Symphony No. 5 by Sibelius

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Conductor in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Mendelssohn

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Conductor in William Tell by Rossini

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Conductor in The Creatures of Prometheus by Beethoven

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Conductor in Horn Concerto No. 2 by Strauss

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Conductor in Symphonic Minutes by Dohnányi

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Conductor in 4 Songs by Brahms

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Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Schubert

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Conductor in D'un matin de printemps by Boulanger

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Conductor in The Snow Maiden Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov

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Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Schumann

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Conductor in Symphony No. 5 by Mahler

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Conductor in Vier ernste Gesänge by Brahms

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Conductor in Clarinet Concerto in A major by Mozart

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Conductor in The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky

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Conductor in Horn Concerto No. 3 by Mozart

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Conductor in Don Giovanni by Mozart

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Conductor in Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra by Lieberman

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Conductor in Overture No. 2 in E-flat major by Farrenc

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Conductor in Der Schneemann by Korngold

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Conductor in A Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky

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Conductor in Winterlust by Strauss

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Conductor in The Birds by Braunfels

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Conductor in Overture for large orchestra in D minor by Pejačević

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Conductor in Clarinet Concerto No. 4 by Spohr

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Conductor in Symphony No. 1 by Saint-Saëns

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Conductor in Symphony No. 8 by Glazunov

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Conductor in Concertino for Tuba and String Orchestra by Koetsier

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