The Opera Workshop is a compact seminar in which participants learn all the key aspects of an opera production. It typically takes place on Friday evenings (usually from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) and the following Saturday in a six-hour block with appropriate breaks. Conception and implementation by Volker Wacker.

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Opera Workshop

Staatsoper Hamburg

With their ears pricked up, the participants go through the Elbphilharmonie and capture exciting sounds with their microphone. What sounds can you find in the concert hall when no concerts are being performed? With a tablet together with an app, the participants record sound snippets which they can later edit and arrange into a short piece of music.

Workshop: Kreativ Sound Safari

Elbphilharmonie

NDR Chamber Concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

How do I become what I am not? Between appearance and reality, director Tatjana Gürbaca searches for the melancholic undertones in Gioachino Rossini's masterful comedy. Behind some comic masquerades lies the desire to escape one's role, behind some triumphant vocal acrobatics the fear of missing out on life. Can there ever be a winner in the pursuit of happiness? A masterpiece for all time.

The Barber of Seville

Hamburg State Opera

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59E40S_EQSY

The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv6htilWtI

The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

"Luisa Miller" is Giuseppe Verdi’s third setting of a play by Friedrich Schiller. “It is a great drama, full of passion and very effective in theatrical terms,” the composer wrote to the librettist Salvadore Cammarano about “Kabale und Liebe”...

Luisa Miller

A person can lose so much: keys or small change, nerves or courage, memories, home, freedom, dignity. And, although we often don't want to admit it: one day, even life. On the other hand, one can also lose inhibitions, leave something burdening behind, and look forward with freshness and freedom. The Elbphilharmonie's community project offers creative Hamburg residents aged 16 and over the opportunity to explore these topics from different perspectives, together with professional artists. They will present their results as a performance in the Recital Hall, accompanied by the Ensemble Shiraz.

Community-Project »Lost and Found«

The Hamburg State Orchestra's Philharmonic Concerts become time-plays, transcending the boundaries of the ordinary: This concert features Daniela Terranova's orchestration of Bach's music and her compositional dialogue with Beethoven – the third movement of his Sixth Symphony is replaced by a new composition by her, inspired by the original. Beethoven confronts us today as a mirror of the past and, through Terranova, as a part of the here and now. This unabashed musical interplay opens new perspectives on our musical culture, our thinking and being, and our way of receiving music.

Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Jean-Christophe Spinosi

The Hamburg State Orchestra's Philharmonic Concerts become ZeitSpiele and transcend the boundaries of the ordinary: In this concert, Daniela Terranova's orchestration of Bach's music on the one hand and her compositional dialog with Beethoven on the other will be heard - for the third movement of his 6th Symphony will be replaced by a new composition from her pen, inspired by the original.

9th Philharmonic Concert BEETHOVEN / TERRANOVA

"Camille Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto is fantastic: very dramatic, in a way truly theatrical," enthuses star cellist Gautier Capuçon. And with his globally acclaimed, sonorous voice, the Frenchman is the perfect soloist for this Romantic masterpiece. It's no surprise that it's so dramatic: after all, Saint-Saëns wrote eleven operas, just two fewer than operatic giant Richard Wagner. And so it's fitting that the two composers perform side by side here—especially since the Staatskapelle Dresden is an orchestra whose DNA is, so to speak, written into its DNA. But the top-class ensemble also manages to illuminate the lucid brilliance of Claude Debussy's impressionistic soundscape "La mer" with "effortless excellence" and "overwhelming beauty" (Hamburger Abendblatt). An evening not to be missed! (And just as an aside: Debussy was also, of course, an opera composer.)

Saxon State Orchestra Dresden / Gautier Capuçon / Daniele Gatti

"Here, alongside impulsive unconditionality, one also hears ghostly sounds, the most delicate details, and breathtaking filigree work." – the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper can hardly contain its enthusiasm in its review of the groundbreaking recording of Schubert's "Die schöne Müllerin" (The Beautiful Miller's Daughter), which star tenor Julian Prégardien and fortepiano expert Kristian Bezuidenhout presented in 2024. With their reinterpretation of this famous song cycle, the two transform the small hall of the Elbphilharmonie into a chamber of beautiful lovemaking.

Julian Prégardien / Kristian Bezuidenhout

CAMERATA MULTITUDES »Synthesis«

Laeiszhalle Hamburg

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is, so to speak, the artistic breeding ground for many of the world's top conductors: Greats such as Adrian Boult, Simon Rattle, Sakari Oramo, Andris Nelsons, and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla spent crucial years of their careers leading this ensemble. Since April 2023, Japanese conductor Kazuki Yamada has been at the helm of the English musicians—and that's promising!

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Frank Peter Zimmermann / Kazuki Yamada

A blue whale dives in the ocean. It meets fish, seaweed and mysterious creatures from the depths. After swimming for miles it reaches the seabed, but it’s covered with refuse. Even a mermaid has got caught up in a fishing net… An interactive underwater journey with Portuguese music, singing, strings and flute.

Twinkle Concert S/O Whale Song

Jazz is a fascinating genre of music that represents a special attitude to life for many fans. Moreover, jazz is accessible to anyone. The famous pianist Herbie Hancock says, »Jazz has an inclusive spirit,« and that applies to the workshop »Kosmos Jazz« as well: participants don’t need any musical knowledge; they get to know some typical jazz instruments in a relaxed atmosphere, have the chance to try them out, and play their first piece of jazz together at the end.

Workshop: Kosmos Jazz

In Wagner's interpretation, the medieval myth about the tragic love between the Irish king's daughter Isolde and Tristan, King Mark's henchman, to whom Isolde was married against her will, becomes a key work of musical theater at the beginning of a new era. This season, the Hamburg State Opera is bringing Ruth Berghaus' legendary production from 1988 back into the repertoire.

Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)

Joseph Haydn’s »Creation« can be described as the most important oratorio of the Classical period. Together with George Frideric Handel’s oratorios, it had an impact right up to the High Romantic period. The three-part work sets the biblical account of the creation of the world to music in a tremendous wealth of colour, depicting a paradisiacal world with an impressive abundance of life. The choir responds to the narrative with songs of praise, of which »Die Himmel erzählen« has become one of the most popular vocal works.

Hamburger Bachchor / elbipolis / Thomas Dahl

Opern Studio

Opera Stabile Werk/Wirkbühne of the State Opera

Guest Concert 1

"Benjamin Bernheim is only 34 and possesses the most beautiful tenor voice since Luciano Pavarotti," the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported in November 2019. With an effortlessly radiant voice and unparalleled emotional intensity, the Parisian singer sings his way into the hearts of his audiences on the world's major stages – rightly acclaimed and awarded prizes. In addition to Italian, the core of his work is primarily the French operatic repertoire, which he also places at the center of his ProArte program.

Benjamin Bernheim / Northwest German Philharmonic

Good art goes straight to the heart, seemingly without taking the detour via the conscious mind. We sit there: amazed, laughing, crying – and sometimes hardly able to say why. This is also the case with the music of British singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney. It comes across as quite simple: a wonderful voice, highly poetic imagery, and accompaniment you can sink into as if you were on a comfortable sofa. But anyone who wants to listen more closely will experience several surprises in Olivia Chaney's music: with the finest vocal nuances, she makes every corner of the soul vibrate; the musical accompaniment reveals unexpected treasures to the attentive ear; the words unfold ever new layers of meaning.

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