1st Youth Concert

Gasteig HP8

Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!

La Traviata

Max-Joseph-Platz

Rakhmaninov Schostakowitsch Borodin

“The artist is a man, and he must write for men. … and you will see true hatred and its bitter fruit.” In the Pagliacci prologue, Tonio tells us what this opera is about – it seeks to put the reality of life on the stage. This applies for both works, which will now enjoy their first new staging at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 46 years (1978). Together Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni and Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo simply exemplify verismo. The basic situation: A woman is unfaithful. Another reveals this to the husband, and he, spurred on by this woman, takes bloody revenge on the lover. Cavalleria rusticana is about Turiddu, who returns to find his old flame Lola again, but she is now married to the carter, Alfio. Turiddu then consoles himself by seducing Santuzza. But the old love is reignited, and Lola betrays her husband, and Turiddu his girlfriend. In Pagliacci, the plot revolves around Nedda and her husband Canio, the leader of a group of comedians. Nedda’s love for him has grown cold, so she turns to the farmer, Silvio.

Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci

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Mendelssohn Bartholdy Tchaikovsky

The Concertgebouw

Queen Elisabeth Hall

University/U30 concert

La Fille du régiment, or the “regiment’s daughter”, is what they call the young Marie, who was found when just a child on the battlefield by soldiers. The troops commit to raising the evidently abandoned girl themselves. A young man of course must soon enter the scene and stir a special interest in her, and the secret of her origins will soon also be revealed. In the best tradition of French opéra comique, with his team of librettists, Gaetano Donizetti created a piece that in a truly original way combines Alpine idyll, patriotic enthusiasm and romantic love with comic situations and heightened conflicts. While Donizetti’s piece was at times extremely popular, the “regiment’s daughter” faded from favour somewhat in the 20th century. It can now be rediscovered, from the famous overture right through to the both amusing and cryptic music, in its first new production at the Bayerische Staatsoper in almost ninety years.

La Fille du régiment

After acclaimed Loriot and Strauss festival concerts, we travel to the "Land Where the Lemons Bloom." New to these events is the Munich Radio Orchestra. Udo Wachtveitl, also known as the "Tatort" detective and narrator, will remain loyal to us and once again lead the concert with compositions by Bellini, Verdi, Johann Strauss, and Paganini, among others. Prepare to be surprised by a diverse program featuring top-class soloists!

Bella Italia

When the nights are at their longest, frosty wind and snow storms sweep the land, it is the time of the Koliada – of the pagan winter solstice feast and the Christian-orthodox Christmas celebration in equal measure. In these magical “twelve days of Christmas” the barrier between the human world and the realm of dark beings becomes especially thin. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “true” Christmas song, Die Nacht vor Weihnachten, based on the eponymous story by Nikolai Gogol, also plays out in this very same period.

Die Nacht vor Weihnachten

Guest performance

Dvorana Union

Musikverein

Forum am Schlosspark

Meistersingerhalle

Have fairgrounds always existed? Timmy goes in search of clues. At a historic fair, he doesn't find a bumper car, but he does find a whole host of other things that fascinate him: barrel organ players, acrobats, dancers, magicians with puppets—and the rogue Till Eulenspiegel, who gets Timmy into a lot of trouble...

Timmy at the Fair

With "Zampa," French composer Ferdinand Hérold landed his greatest operatic success; after its premiere in Paris in 1831, the work also became popular in Germany and Italy. Hérold sets off a musical firework display in the overture, which continues with contrasting solo numbers and large ensembles. The plot's borrowing from Mozart's "Don Giovanni" guarantees mischievous delight: a stone statue drags the pirate and ruthless seducer Zampa into the abyss as punishment.

The Marble Bride

Prinzregententheater

Antoine Tamestit : Chamber orchestra

Andris Nelsons & Håkan Hardenberger

Munich Residence

Rossini Schubert Beethoven

Since its first performance in 1893, Humperdinck's most famous opera Hansel and Gretel has remained constantly popular, becoming over the generations almost synonymous with the first family visit to the opera. "Brother come and dance with me!“ – "Susie, dear Susie" – a dancing brother and sister, the Dew Fairy and the Sandman, the Witch and the parents: a collection of all the fairy tale elements of the 19th century. And yet this is also a tale of hardship, hunger and the desire for abundance with a clear moral: "When the need is greatest, God the Lord puts out His hand!“

Hänsel Und Gretel

The extraordinary Advent story about Bisy the fly and Karl-Heinz the cross spider connects the natural world with our man-made world. An unusual and highly entertaining play for children ages 5 and up and the whole family.

You must be crazy!

CULTURE at Oberbräu

Man and his destiny – that is the theme underlying the sounds of the 2nd Academy Concert 2025–26. Even the opening chords make it clear that Johannes Brahms describes his most personal fears and hopes in his first piano concerto. With this mammoth work in D minor, he shattered all the boundaries that the audience, sworn to classical balance, could have imagined at the premiere in 1859. Pianist Daniil Trifonov is the ideal interpreter like no other today; he makes his debut with the Bavarian State Orchestra with this concerto. For Pyotr Tchaikovsky, any music that did not aspire to "pure tonal play" was program music: music that speaks of emotional stirrings, in which experiences and encounters linger. For his Fourth Symphony, he hinted at what motivated him while composing it: "This is fate, that fatal power which prevents the desire for happiness from reaching its goal, which jealously watches to ensure that well-being and peace are not full and unclouded, which hangs like the sword of Damocles over the head and continually poisons the soul. This power is invincible, and one can never conquer it" – but one should not stop fighting it either. Kirill Petrenko conducts this work for the first time in Munich. The return of our former chief conductor is, as always, eagerly awaited.

2nd Academy Concert: Kirill Petrenko

Unfortunately, we need to change the first half of the programme on December 7 because of scheduling reasons. Instead of the originally planned programme with works for brass ensemble by Takemitsu, Shostakovich, and Tomasi, we will be offering “Four Black American Dances” by Carlos Simon and the trumpet concerto “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See” by Bernd Alois Zimmermann.

A long tradition of Christmas concerts connects the Regensburg Cathedral Choir and the Munich Radio Orchestra. And when the renowned lieder singer Benjamin Appl joins the choir, the former Cathedral Choir member meets "his" choir – the perfect setting for an atmospheric Wednesday evening with Christmas classics such as Peter Cornelius's "The Kings," the most beautiful excerpts from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and many other heartfelt songs, choral pieces, and well-known melodies.

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You must be crazy!

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Münchner Rundfunkorchester