Scarpia, Rome’s chief of police, desires Tosca. Since her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, is among the government’s political enemies, Scarpia has him imprisoned. He orders Cavaradossi’s execution and hopes to force Tosca into granting him one night with her, in exchange for Cavaradossi’s release. She, however, thwarts his plans…

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Tosca

Staatsoper Hamburg

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This workshop offers a tour through the classical symphony orchestra. From the violin, cello and double bass to the trumpet and flute: participants can try them all out. And there are instruments in different sizes for youngsters and adults alike. To conclude the workshop, a little music-making session where everyone joins in shows that all the instruments harmonise.

Workshop: Klassiko Orchestra Instruments

Elbphilharmonie

Welcome to Blind Date! Here, anything is possible: groovy folk fiddle music, crossover string quartets, virtuosic live piano improvisation combining jazz and classical music. The imagination is boundless, but not when the surprise is revealed in advance! Included in a Blind Date ticket is a free drink – so that you can ask the evening’s artists at the bar what you just heard!

Blind Date

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

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Under the direction of Omer Meir Wellber, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra is adding a colorful accent to the season: THE BLUE WEEK. The new festival replaces the former Academy Concerts and combines unique works and programs on the one hand and showcases the special qualities of our orchestra musicians on the other. In the first edition, they make metamorphoses of all kinds audible: In the third concert program of the festival week, Vivaldi's and Piazzolla's spring, summer, autumn and winter come together in an interplay and form eight seasons of different climatic zones.

3. Blue Concert EIGHT SEASONS

The philharmonic concerts of the Hamburg State Orchestra become ZeitSpiele and transcend the boundaries of the ordinary: In this concert, Aziza Sadikova's compositional exploration of Tchaikovsky's character will be heard - for the second and third movements of his symphony will be replaced by new compositions from her pen, inspired by the original. Tchaikovsky meets us today as a mirror of the past and at the same time, through Sadikova, as part of the here and now!

2nd Philharmonic Concert TSCHAIKOWSKY / SADIKOVA

Seeking to test their girlfriends’ fidelity, two men wager that they will remain steadfast. They subject the women to passionate onslaught, and in the end, the fortress of their faithfulness falls. The men, however, involved as they are in the experiment, failed to reckon that they too might betray their partners and feelings. All this cheating, confusing, lying – to others and oneself – is grotesquely comical and simultaneously cruel. One side is inclined not to think about the new situation (Guglielmo and Dorabella), while the others try to comprehend it to the point of exhaustion (Fiordiligi and Ferrando). The final ceremony seeks to cement the social status quo, bringing this new freedom to its knees. The marriage, however, is only for show, and beneath the surface of tradition, the first cracks appear.

Così fan tutte

She is one of the greats in her field: When Janine Jansen takes up violin and bow, she captivates audiences. One of her favorite violin concertos is Benjamin Britten's – and one of her favorite partners, of course, is the London Symphony Orchestra. This was already clear 15 years ago, when the Dutch violinist recorded the visionary concerto with England's first orchestra.

London Symphony Orchestra / Janine Jansen / Sir Antonio Pappano

Starting this season, there will be a new colorful accent in the program of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra: THE BLUE WEEK. The festival replaces the former Academy Concerts and combines unique works and programs on the one hand and showcases the special qualities of our orchestra musicians on the other. In the first edition, they make metamorphoses of all kinds audible - in this concert, people are musically transformed into animals, oboe notes into alienated soundscapes and fantasies into sounding reality.

2. Blue Concert METAMORPHOSES

Have you ever heard of a double bass recorder? Or of the Indian shrutibox? For the workshop »Klassiko Special« we have unpacked some of the most unusual instruments from the Elbphilharmonie’s huge collection, which participants can try out themselves. The serpent, the waterphone or the giant tubax: there are true rarities waiting to be discovered here!

Workshop: Klassiko Special

Beethoven grasps the whole, round, complex human nature within himself. Never has a musician known more and experienced more of the harmony of the spheres, the harmony of God's nature, than Beethoven.

Beethoven's Ninth in the Elbphilharmonie

To mark the 50th anniversary of Mascha Kaléko’s death, the Harbour Front Literature Festival is commemorating one of the most important poets of the 20th century with a literary and musical evening – about exile and memory, about the magic of language, longing and self-assertion. The programme kicks off with the exclusive book premiere by Volker Weidermann: »Wenn ich eine Wolke wäre« is a touching approach to Kaléko’s life and language. This will be followed by the programme »Nirgendland – Ein Abend für Mascha Kaléko«, performed by the Etta Scollo Trio and Corinna Harfouch – an interplay of music, poetry and voice that is as intimate as it is universal.

An Evening for Mascha Kaléko

"We drummers simply have this spirit of discovery," says young drummer Vivi Vassileva about herself and her drumming community. "We love discovering and combining new instruments and new sounds." What she means by this is evident in the piece "Frozen in Time" by Avner Dorman, which the Israeli composer once wrote for Vassileva's teacher, Martin Grubinger. In addition to countless drums, cymbals, and mallet instruments such as the wooden marimba, the metal vibraphone, and the glockenspiel, other instruments are used, including the African djembe, the Arabian darbuka, and several cencerros—a type of "tuned cowbell"—which can even be played as a melody instrument.

Young German Philharmonic / Vivi Vassileva / Stanislav Kochanovsky

Iveta Apkalna, titular organist of the Elbphilharmonie, opens the organ season with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Arvo Pärt, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year. In their faith and deep spirituality, the composers, both great organ masters, are kindred spirits.

Iveta Apkalna, organ

With a discography of over 50 records, George Dalaras has shaped modern Greek music since the 1960s. Now, with a 10-piece band, he pays tribute to rembetiko, the "blues" of Greece, in which the melancholy and joys of the Greek folk soul are reflected like nowhere else.

George Dalaras

Music and meditation have long gone hand in hand – in everything from yoga studios to mindfulness apps. The pianist and neuropsychologist Nicolas Namoradze goes one step further by introducing meditation techniques to the concert hall. Arvo Pärt’s deeply introspective music provides the ideal backdrop, creating an entirely new listening experience with guided meditation and flexible seating – whether on chairs, beanbags, or (your own) yoga mat.

Deep Listening

The new programme »Opium – Light and Shadow of the Twenties« by the Berlin-based dream duo Eckart Runge and Jaques Ammon reflects the creative, decadent and frivolous 1920s - a brief era of awakening, turmoil, sensuality, seduction and ecstasy, but also a time with a premonition of impending catastrophe. »Opium« features music by Korngold, Mahler, Debussy, Bloch, Hindemith, Gershwin and others. The two artists have also arranged film music by Tom Tykwer and Johnny Klimek for their own ensemble and recorded it for several seasons of the internationally successful TV series »Babylon Berlin«.

Eckart Runge & Jacques Ammon

Tadadadaaaa. If you think you already know Beethoven's Fifth inside and out, this concert by the London Symphony Orchestra is highly recommended: Sir Antonio Pappano places the classical masterpiece in a completely new context and opens up exciting perspectives. Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony was intended to be a triumphant work of Beethovenian stature – and became an ironic commentary on the megalomania of the criminal Stalin regime, complete with circus fanfares and hidden musical quotations. Shostakovich thus put his own fate to the test once again. The fate of a friend who voluntarily took his own life inspired Prokofiev to score his Second Piano Concerto, which is now one of the most famous works of modern music. In Seong-Jin Cho, the virtuoso solo part finds a subtle interpreter.

London Symphony Orchestra / Seong-Jin Cho / Sir Antonio Pappano

Opening concert of the Bach Weeks at St. Michaelis in Hamburg with Concerto Köln

Opening concert of the Bach Weeks 2025 at St. Michaelis

St. Michael's Church

Under the direction of Omer Meir Wellber, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra is adding a colorful accent to the season: THE BLUE WEEK. The new festival replaces the former Academy Concerts and combines unique works and programs on the one hand and showcases the special qualities of our orchestra musicians on the other. In the first edition, they make metamorphoses of all kinds audible - for example, in the first festival concert with Boulez's groundbreaking and enigmatic work Le Marteau sans maître, the instruments mutate into singing voices, while the singer repeatedly takes on a sound role without text. In a labyrinthine way, the work itself unfolds all its characteristics from a single small cell, as if from the sequence of our genetic information, from which first an embryo and then everything else emerges, without anyone arbitrarily intervening from outside.

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