Just as every new year has its January 1st, (almost) every opera has an overture: sometimes as a turbulent introduction to a comedy full of intrigue and passion, as in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Figaro", sometimes as a departure into an adventure fairy tale full of magic, as in Mikhail Glinka's "Ruslan and Ludmilla". The Duisburg Philharmonic's salon orchestra welcomes the year 2025 with a selection of overtures that is as varied as it is virtuoso, mixing lively sounds in three-quarter time. "Everything is a waltz" is not only the motto of Johann Strauss and his brother Josef, but also in Carl Maria von Weber's "Invitation to the Dance" from 1819 - the epitome of Biedermeier waltz bliss.

New Year's Concert with the Salon Orchestra

Theater Duisburg

Listen to Art takes place in cooperation with the Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, where seniors and children of preschool and primary school age discover music and art. Together with a musician from the Duisburg Philharmonic and a museum educator, we go on a journey of discovery that enables personal encounters between children and seniors.

The klasse.klassik senior program is aimed at the older generation - and those who are musically young at heart - with a variety of concerts and cross-generational projects. In addition to the popular Herzmusik concerts and the accompanied profile and winter concerts "Plus", the tandem projects "Hör mal Kunst" and "Hör mal ein Buch" in cooperation with the Lehmbruck Museum and the Duisburg City Library enrich the range of music education for young and old.

Listen to Art

Lehmbruck Museum

Where streams of tourists now flock, artistic activity reigned for centuries. Outstanding composers such as Giovanni Gabrieli and Francesco Usper, as church musicians around 1600, used the galleries of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice to experiment with the new concept of polyphony. Musical successors such as Baldassare Galuppi and Antonio Lotti, also major figures in Venetian music history, were often no less experimental. In the serenade concert of the Duisburg Philharmonic and their guest Frithjof Smith, their works enter into dialogue with those of lesser-known, yet all the more worthy masters—naturally, in historically informed performance practice.

Rocco Rescigno

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 5, 2026

2nd Serenade Concert · Duisburger Philharmoniker

Past events

Jan 19, 2025

New Year's Concert with the Salon Orchestra · Duisburger Philharmoniker

Jan 12, 2025

New Year's Concert with the Salon Orchestra · Duisburger Philharmoniker

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