Im Anfang war das Wort? Wie schnell beweisen blutige Taten das Gegenteil des Gesagten. Nach Bernhard Langs Playing Trump 2021 begibt sich erneut ein zeitgenössischer Komponist auf die Spur der Worte eines Despoten. Gesammelt in Zeiten des Friedens, vertont in Zeiten des Krieges. Schamlos verkehrt die Rhetorik der Macht mörderische Pläne in ihr Gegenteil. Heuchelei und dreiste Lüge werden zum Prinzip erhoben.

Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs

Opera Stabile Werk/Wirkbühne of the State Opera

"It is a simple and tremendous problem of life: that of fidelity", is how Hugo von Hofmannsthal described the core of their third opera together, Ariadne auf Naxos, in a letter to Richard Strauss. To live does not mean to persevere and hold on to what has been lost. If you want to live, you have to let go, forget, get over yourself - constantly transform yourself. This is what a young opera composer experiences in this work when he is confronted with the stubborn wishes of his patron; just like the protagonist of his opera, Ariadne, who, abandoned by her lover, Theseus, expects only death. But things turn out differently... Strauss and Hofmannsthal let the opposites collide: Tragedy and comedy, light music and grand opera, playfulness and seriousness. Thus, in the mirroring of art and life, between gaze and gaze, the unfathomable mystery of transformation takes place.

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Ariadne auf Naxos

Staatsoper Hamburg

A coming-of-age story, recurring conflicts with parents, and first love, Manon is a young girl full of hopes, dreams, and an irrepressible desire for life. Manon is to enter a convent and sees her desire for a free, self-determined life fading. However, she falls head over heels in love and flees to Paris, the city of love and opportunity.

Manon

The 6th Philharmonic Concert will feature a world premiere reflecting our times. Jörg Widmann, who has been in close artistic contact with Kent Nagano, especially since the great success of his ARCHE for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, recently wrote a decidedly peace-loving work in view of the global wars: "Cantata in tempore belli". Jens Harzer takes on the role of the speaker. Ida Aldrian sings the alto part.

6th Philharmonic Concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

concertmaster recital

Laeiszhalle Hamburg

Together with KiKA presenter Juri Tetzlaff and his best friend "Hasi", our Hasi children experience four exciting and funny cushion concerts in Studio E of the Laeiszhalle. The most important creatures in the lives of our little guests are warmly invited: their favorite cuddly toys. They even get their own "box seat" at the concert. Before each concert, the children receive a real Hasi letter and can of course write back to Hasi. This creates a close exchange between our Hasi listeners and the performers.

Juris Stuffed Animal Concert

When Haggai Cohen-Milo describes his approach to creatively engaging with works of concert literature from the perspective of a jazz musician, it is flying objects in space that spring to mind. When exploring the work, he feels like a spaceship that is attracted to the moon - the work - and accelerates further as a result, and finally overcomes the gravitational forces through targeted counter-steering, shoots past it and can explore new worlds: worlds that lie beyond it. 

Haggai Cohen-Milo Volume X »Messa da Requiem«

In a room where time melts in the haze of cigars and whiskey, a hypnotic game unfolds: Gavin Bryars and Juan Muñoz's "a man in a room, gambling" is a smoking sound sculpture of gambling. Life and love are gambled, caressed and beaten on the poker table. In the background, wicked tango from Finland. Plus new card tricks that don't fear doom.

urban string »man in a room gambling«

Harburger Theater

resonanzraum

News from the north: The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Alan Gilbert will premiere a new work by Alex Paxton on February 7. The MDR Radio Choir and NDR Vokalensemble will be part of the second part.

Elbphilharmonie Visions: Gilbert conducts Paxton and Deutsch

Emilio Pomàrico conducts works by Staud and Posadas

Galina Ustvolskaya was a woman whose work was characterized by ascetic contemplation and uncompromising outbursts. From 1937 to 1947 she studied at the conservatory in her hometown of Leningrad, where Dmitri Shostakovich was not only one of her most important teachers, but also one of her great admirers. Shostakovich is quoted as saying that he was just a talent, she was a phenomenon. Until the end, the composer lived a secluded life and avoided any publicity. "I write when I am in a state of grace. Then the work rests for a while, and when its time comes, I release it. If its time does not come, I destroy it." After 1990, the composer did not release a single further work for performance until her death in 2006.

Cambreling – Verdi Requiem

The works of the 3rd Chamber Concerto are all about love and solidarity in word and sound: When Johannes Brahms set about composing the “Two Songs”, it was his close friendship with his long-time companion, the violinist Joseph Joachim. Brahms wanted to create a musical monument to his love and composed the “Spiritual Lullaby” based on a text by Emanuel Geibel for his wedding, but withdrew the composition and revised it. The composer then published both songs together with “Quenched Longing” based on a text by Friedrich Rückert to mark another happy event: the baptism of his godchild, Joseph Joachim’s son. In both compositions, one can hear the unbridled joy of life, born of love. Leoš Janáček's (late) love for Kamilla Stösslová, who was almost 40 years younger than him, was, however, under a completely different, much worse star. In his second string quartet, with the programmatic nickname "Intimate Letters", his feelings for the young woman are omnipresent. Just a year before his death, Janáček left behind the frivolous testimony of a great love: eruptive, provocative and passionate.

3rd Chamber Concert

Music of Time - Guest Performance Hamburg | Elbphilharmonie Visions

The extraordinary Dominican composer and pianist Michel Camilo is a Grammy, Latin Grammy and Emmy award winner and has been honored with other awards such as honorary doctorates and professorships. With his brilliant artistry and technical virtuosity, Camilo travels through the genres of jazz, classical, popular music and world music on 88 keys, combining them all with a Caribbean flair. Almost 30 albums have now been released in a wide variety of formations; he has recorded them as a soloist, in a duo, in a trio, in a sextet, with a big band and with symphony orchestras. In this concert he will appear both alone on the grand piano and as the soloist in his energetic Piano Concerto No. 1 from 2006, in which jazz and classical music form a unique fusion through rhythmic complexity and melodic variety.

Michel Camilo in the Elbphilharmonie

The NDR Radiophilharmonie and soprano Anja Petersen are guests at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg - with works by Clara Iannotta and Arnulf Herrmann.


Elbphilharmonie Visions. Pierre Bleuse and Anja Petersen

The poet E. T. A. Hoffmann as the protagonist of his own fantastic tales: In his encounter with three women - Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta - he searches in vain for love for love and for himself. Will he draw the strength for art from his failure in life? art from his failures in life? Or will he fail in himself, even in alcohol? Like in a kaleidoscope, ever new constellations and shimmering colors constellations and shimmering colors German romanticism and French esprit.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Viola star Lawrence Power is a guest at the Bunker Feldstraße: On February 15, 2025, the Brit will meet members of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in the club in St. Pauli.

Terribly unreinforced: Lawrence Power

ByteFM - Radio für gute Musik

With the core program of Forum N, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra will then make its second stop in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie this season. Under the direction of Matthias Hermann, as part of the "Elbphilharmonie Visions 2025" it will present Helmut Lachenmann's music for eight horns "My Melodies", which is not looking for new sounds, but for new listening, as well as the composition "Sympathetic Resonance" by the British composer Christian Mason, which sees the orchestra as a huge resonance instrument.

Elbphilharmonie Visions 2025

Helau and hurray! Confetti, streamers and costumes - all of this is part of a successful carnival party. And of course, rousing music. The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra celebrates a party full of gripping rhythms and fantastically beautiful melodies with presenter Singa Gätgens. Our wild carnival concert naturally begins with a real classic: the overture from the operetta "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss. The piece takes place at a masked ball and is full of funny misunderstandings and mix-ups. Wigs, make-up and weird clothes are also expressly welcome in the audience at this concert.

Singa's colorful carnival concert

Visions 2025: The last concert on February 16 combines a solo concert for viola star Lawrence Power with a musical tribute to Johannes Brahms and a work for the world-renowned music education project "El Sistema" in Venezuela.

Events in Hamburg next month

Die Kreide im Mund des Wo...

Staatsoper Hamburg

Ariadne auf Naxos

Staatsoper Hamburg

Manon

Staatsoper Hamburg

6th Philharmonic Concert

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg...

concertmaster recital

Symphoniker Hamburg

Juris Stuffed Animal Conc...

Symphoniker Hamburg

Haggai Cohen-Milo Volume ...

Symphoniker Hamburg

urban string »man in a ro...

Ensemble Resonanz

Elbphilharmonie Visions: ...

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Emilio Pomàrico conducts ...

SWR Symphonieorchester

Cambreling – Verdi Requie...

Symphoniker Hamburg

3rd Chamber Concert

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg...

Music of Time - Guest Per...

WDR Sinfonieorchester

Michel Camilo in the Elbp...

Symphoniker Hamburg

Elbphilharmonie Visions. ...

NDR Radiophilharmonie

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Staatsoper Hamburg

Terribly unreinforced: La...

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Elbphilharmonie Visions 2...

hr-Sinfonieorchester

Singa's colorful carnival...

Symphoniker Hamburg

Elbphilharmonie Visions: ...

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester