Singer

The Budapest Festival Orchestra takes a musical trip to the banks and into the depths of the Rhine when offering Schumann’s symphony, inspired by charming experiences and a Wagner scene. The former commemorates a peaceful riverside excursion to the Rhine, and the latter is one of the most famous scenes from the monumental opera tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung. The concert will feature two outstanding singers in the roles of Brünhilde and Wotan in one of the most dramatic father-daughter scenes in operatic literature. Swedish soprano Ingela Brimberg, who is very much at home in the Wagnerian repertoire, has sung the title role in numerous productions from Stockholm to Madrid to Bordeaux.

Tour: Alhambra, Granada

Patio of the Palace of Charles V

In this concert, which concludes Kent Nagano's ten-year term as General Music Director, two key strands of his concert dramaturgy for Hamburg come together: the reference to tradition, namely to the Hanseatic Johannes Brahms, whose four symphonies the Philharmonic has accompanied in recent years in its Hamburg concerts as well as on tours - and the sound of our present in innovative premieres. A look back makes us think of Widmann's ARCHE, Dusapin's "Waves", Shepherd's "On a Clear Day" and many other outstanding new creations. In this concert - as both a crowning finale and farewell - a new symphony by the young Argentinian Alex Nante will be heard in his unmistakably dreamlike, spiritual sound language.

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10th Philharmonic Concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

What began in 2023 with a concert performance of »Das Rheingold« and continued in 2024 with »Die Walküre« and now with »Siegfried« is no less than a redefinition of standards in Wagner interpretation. The project »The Wagner Cycles« is dedicated to a unique collaboration between academic expertise and practice, tackling Richard Wagner’s monumental opera tetralogy. In Dresden and on tour through Europe’s musical centers, the results of this spectacular sound workshop and the historically informed perspective on Wagner’s epoch-making theatrical oeuvre have been celebrated as revolutionary. In the third part of the »Ring«, »Siegfried», depictions of nature and the visceral portrayals of action reveal Wagner at the height of his expressive musical powers. As in previous years, the newly-won transparent orchestra sound and the focus on the singers’ treatment of language will ensure novel listening experiences.

Richard Wagner: »Siegfried«

Kulturpalast Dresden

Lucerne Festival

Now he's going out into the world: the free hero Siegfried is tasked with rectifying what Wotan, the father of the gods, messed up at the beginning of the story. Part three of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" can finally be experienced in Kent Nagano's original sound project.

The Wagner Cycles mit Dresdner Festspielorchester und Kent Nagano

Palace of Culture

Haydn's composition is characterised by a dramatic, extremely moving emotionality that is hard to resist. It was initially conceived as a purely instrumental composition - meditation music in seven slow movements with a prelude and final movement („Il Terremoto“ - the earthquake) for a Passion service. However, when Haydn heard an arrangement of his work with a German text in Passau in 1794, he was inspired to write his own vocal version. The premiere took place in Vienna in 1796. With the flourishing of choral societies in the 19th century, this vocal version of the Seven Words became one of the most frequently performed pieces of Passion music ever.

Good Friday concert

Konzerthaus Berlin

Now he is going out into the world: the free hero Siegfried is supposed to fix what Wotan, the father of the gods, messed up at the beginning of the story. Part three of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" can finally be experienced in Kent Nagano's original sound project.

Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Museum Ludwig

What began in 2023 with a concert performance of »Das Rheingold« and continued in 2024 with »Die Walküre« and now with »Siegfried« is no less than a redefinition of standards in Wagner interpretation. The project »The Wagner Cycles« is dedicated to a unique collaboration between academic expertise and practice, tackling Richard Wagner’s monumental opera tetralogy. In Dresden and on tour through Europe’s musical centers, the results of this spectacular sound workshop and the historically informed perspective on Wagner’s epoch-making theatrical oeuvre have been celebrated as revolutionary. In the third part of the »Ring«, »Siegfried», depictions of nature and the visceral portrayals of action reveal Wagner at the height of his expressive musical powers.

The Wagner Cycles on Tour RICHARD WAGNER: »SIEGFRIED«

Philharmonie de Paris

Kölner Philharmonie

Guest performance in Würzburg, 1st performance

Neubaukirche

Noseda brings our celebration to an epic close with George Walker’s exhilarating Sinfonia No. 3 and Beethoven’s Ninth, the symphony by which all others are measured. The cosmic drama of this masterwork—its grand, emotional melodies and tremendous final “Ode to Joy”—reminds us why Beethoven’s final symphony resounds as loudly today as it did two centuries ago.

Beethoven & American Masters: George Walker & Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

Groton Hill Music Center

Christmas Oratorio

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

„Alle Menschen werden Brüder“: if Friedrich Schiller’s idealistic — and today particularly urgent — motto has been ingrained in our collective memory, then it is largely thanks to the Ninth Symphony. Based on a simple, recognizable melody, Ludwig van Beethoven builds up a masterful series of variations in his final movement that conveys Schiller’s hopeful Ode to Joy.

Beethoven Symphony 9

BOZAR

“The Ninth,” referred to with this simple term, is a masterpiece known to everyone. Beethoven’s last, longest, and most monumental symphony is at once the embodiment of the ideas of the genius and the rebellious artist, as well as a celebration of the whole of humankind. It is a work that pushes and indeed breaks down boundaries in every sense of the word, as it incorporates into a purely instrumental genre the human voice, which sings in the finale of how “all men become brothers.” Along with Beethoven’s universal musical and philosophical ideas, audiences can enjoy the return of the BFO’s much-loved guest artists, a Swedish soprano, a Dutch alto, an English tenor, and a German bass-baritone, who will ensure that this concert, where, together with the Pan-European Choir, they will sing Schiller’s immortal lines (now the text of the European Union anthem), will traverse national boundaries.

Tour: Beethoven Ninth

KKL Lucerne

The Concertgebouw

Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona

Bozar, Brussels

Konzerthaus Dortmund

Alte Oper

Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

“The Ninth,” referred to with this simple term, is a masterpiece known to everyone. Beethoven’s last, longest, and most monumental symphony is at once the embodiment of the ideas of the genius and the rebellious artist, as well as a celebration of the whole of humankind. It is a work that pushes and indeed breaks down boundaries in every sense of the word, as it incorporates into a purely instrumental genre the human voice, which sings in the finale of how “all men become brothers.” Along with Beethoven’s universal musical and philosophical ideas, audiences can enjoy the return of the BFO’s much-loved guest artists, a Swedish soprano, a Dutch alto, an English tenor, and a German bass-baritone, who will ensure that this concert, where, together with the Pan-European Choir and the Hungarian National Choir, they will sing Schiller’s immortal lines (now the text of the European Union anthem), will traverse national boundaries.

Bass-baritone

Hanno Müller-Brachmann

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 19, 2026

Christmas Oratorio · Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Apr 4, 2027

Beethoven Symphony 9 · La Monnaie / De Munt

4 - 12 Apr, 2027

Tour: Beethoven Ninth · Budapest Festival Orchestra

14 - 17 Apr, 2027

Fischer and Beethoven’s Ninth · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Past events

Jul 4, 2026

Tour: Alhambra, Granada · Budapest Festival Orchestra

29 - 30 Jun, 2025

10th Philharmonic Concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Symphony No. 4 by Brahms

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Singer in The Seven Last Words of Christ by Haydn

Konzerthausorchester Berlin

Singer in Christmas Oratorio by Bach

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Singer in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

La Monnaie / De Munt

Fafner in Siegfried by Wagner

Kölner Philharmonie

Singer in Symphony No. 9 in D Minor by Beethoven

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Singer in Anahata by Nante

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Fafner in The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner

Concerto Köln

Bassoon in Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major (“Rhenish”) by Schumann

Budapest Festival Orchestra

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