Join Staatskapelle Berlin for a captivating array of concerts and events this winter, featuring works by classical masters and contemporary composers. From the New Year's concert at Staatsoper Unter den Linden to chamber sessions at Apollosaal, each performance promises a unique journey through time, culture, and sound. With world-renowned artists and conductors, these events highlight Berlin's vibrant music scene, offering audiences an unforgettable experience.

Exploring Berlin's Diverse Musical Landscape: A Winter's Tale with Staatskapelle Berlin

February 2025 promises an exhilarating ride through the annals of classical music with the Staatskapelle Berlin. With a series of carefully curated performances, from the avant-garde interpretations of György Kurtág's works to the timeless genius of Johann Sebastian Bach and beyond, Berlin's rich musical heritage takes center stage. This month-long celebration of sound not only bridges past and present but also showcases the vibrant talent of artists like Finnegan Downie Dear, Paavo Järvi, and María Dueñas. Immerse yourself in a symphonic journey that celebrates the diversity and depth of classical music.

Melodies in Motion: A February 2025 Musical Journey with Staatskapelle Berlin

Staatskapelle Berlin is set to captivate audiences with a series of diverse musical events from March to April 2025. Highlights include 'Sustainable Listening #6', intimate museum concerts, and a deep dive into Wagner's 'Ring' at Festtage. Featuring renowned performers like Christian Thielemann, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Simone Young, these events promise rich cultural experiences and historical insights. Join in Berlin's vibrant music scene and witness a celebration of classical and contemporary works that will resonate with both enthusiasts and newcomers alike.

Staatskapelle Berlin's March to April Concert Series: A Symphony of Artistic Exploration

Dive into the harmonious world of Staatskapelle Berlin as they present a diverse array of concerts that span genres and centuries. From orchestral wonders led by Joshua Bredemeier to the soulful recitals of Joyce DiDonato, and the celebration of Pierre Boulez's legacy, each event promises a unique musical journey. With performances at renowned venues like the Apollosaal and the Philharmonie Berlin, this season promises captivating experiences for both long-time enthusiasts and newcomers to the classical music scene.

Exploring the Sonic Tapestry: Staatskapelle Berlin's Rich Musical Offerings

Berlin's vibrant music scene is set to enchant audiences with an array of performances by the Staatskapelle Berlin. From family-friendly concerts to classical recitals and innovative chamber music, the city's concert halls will resonate with melodies that span centuries and cultures. Join us as we take a journey through these exciting events, spotlighting the talent and artistry that make Berlin a hub for music lovers around the world.

Exploring Berlin's Diverse Musical Tapestry: A Journey Through Concerts at Staatskapelle

In June 2025, Berlin will be a hub of musical diversity, featuring performances that span recitals, orchestral endeavors, and choral magnificence. Key events include Elīna Garanča's song recital at the State Opera Unter den Linden, the innovative Sustainable Listening session, and the vibrant choral performances in the Apollo Hall. With contributions from renowned artists and orchestras, these events promise to highlight the richness of Berlin's musical heritage and its contemporary innovations.

Exploring Berlin's Musical Landscape: From Recitals to Orchestral Masterpieces

Staatskapelle Berlin presents a captivating series of concerts this July, featuring symphonic and choral performances. These events showcase the visionary work of composers like Franz Liszt and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as contemporary orchestral music. Conductors Christian Thielemann and Vinzenz Weissenburger lead these explorations, with performances by the renowned Staatskapelle musicians and the Children’s Choir. Attendees will be treated to a variety of musical works spanning different genres, providing a rich tapestry of sound and a memorable cultural experience.

Exploring Innovative Orchestral and Choral Landscapes at Staatskapelle Berlin

"The Fantastic" is the theme of this season's chamber concerts in the Apollosaal, based on the season's first opera premiere, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin have developed programs that approach this idea and concept, which play a key role in music, in a variety of ways. Ranging from the Baroque to the present day, with a particular focus on the Romantic period, featuring Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and the multitalented E.T.A. Hoffmann (who, in an idealized form, became the title character in Offenbach's opera), "The Fantastic" will be explored with a variety of chamber music works in diverse ensembles.

Chamber Concert II

Berlin State Opera

As one of the most original and prolific composers of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten left behind a particularly extensive and rich oeuvre. In 1962/63, he composed a "Symphony for Cello and Orchestra" for Mstislav Rostropovich, distinguished by the equal treatment of solo and tutti, which unfold in virtuoso interplay. Britain, in this case Scotland, became a source of inspiration for the young Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, whose Scottish Symphony  grew out of a lasting travel experience in the Nordic landscape and culture and remains one of his major works. Highly Romantic scenery is brought to life, carried by orchestral sounds rich in form and color.

Symphony Concert III

Bebelplatz

Since 2010, chamber music ensembles of the Staatskapelle have been performing at the Bode Museum, a jewel of Berlin's museum landscape. Matinee concerts lasting just over an hour in the Gobelin Hall, with diverse programs that include music from the Baroque and Classical periods as well as works from the Romantic and Modern periods, can easily lead into further hours in the museum—for example, with a guided tour of the exhibition and the "Artwork of the Day," a private tour, or a culinary finale in the stylish museum café.

Museum Concert II

UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Museumsinsel

Museum Concert I

Prussia's Court Music, the chamber orchestra series of the Staatskapelle Berlin, has been in existence for over two decades. It focuses on music from the 17th and 18th centuries, not least composers and works that are particularly connected to the history of the Staatsoper and the Staatskapelle. This season's concerts will focus – in addition to the new production of The Abduction from the Seraglio – on the music of early and middle Mozart, who, both in his hometown of Salzburg and on his travels through Europe, keenly embraced the musical traditions of his time and used them productively in his own work. In addition, the renowned Italian gambist and ensemble leader Vittorio Ghielmi will be a guest at Prussia's Court Music for a weekend, with a program featuring music by the Italian Baroque composer Agostino Steffani.

Prussia's Court Music I

In the mid-19th century, Russia emerged as an independent culture on the musical map of Europe. Mikhail Glinka, the "Father of Russian Music," made a decisive contribution to this through his operas and instrumental works – his overture to Ruslan and Ludmila is one of the outstanding examples of brilliant orchestral music. Decades later, the country's leading symphonist was Pyotr Tchaikovsky, whose emotionally profound Symphony No. 5 of 1888 is arguably one of the most significant achievements in the field of orchestral music. A certain symphonic character is also inherent in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, a work of both concentrated and effective composition from his virtuoso period around 1800.

Symphony Concert II

Chamber Concert I

Fabian Müller has already performed all of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas in the Pierre Boulez Hall; now he will play Mozart's A major concerto, composed in 1786 while he was working on Le nozze di Figaro . Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund will be heard conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin for the first time, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in the meditative sound world of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, who celebrates his 90th birthday a few days before the concert. The music of Dobrinka Tabakova, which references a melody by Franz Schubert, leads into a "kind of weightlessness through the cosmos, past stars and planets." Schubert's enigmatic Symphony in B minor will be heard next – music that oscillates between lyrical intensity and gloom, between light and shadow.

Concert in the Pierre Boulez Hall I

Pierre Boulez Saal

Béla Bartók and Antonín Dvořák each gave the music of their homeland a face, a voice, and a sound, each in his own unique way. Melodic and rhythmic elements that can be considered characteristic of Hungary and Bohemia have found their way into many of their works. Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1, an early work from 1907/08, born of deep emotional connection, embodies his style with its elegy and vitality. Similarly, with his Symphony No. 8, composed in 1889, Dvořák succeeded in creating music that captivates with its inventiveness and experimental spirit, as well as its melodic and rhythmic qualities, while simultaneously proving immensely diverse and colorful.

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Symphony Concert I

Berliner Philharmonie

For more than six decades, the chamber concerts by musicians from the Staatskapelle have been a constant feature of the Staatsoper programme. This season, ensembles have come together to select music from different periods, styles and cultures under the theme of ‘playing together’. On eleven dates in the Apollosaal, which with its special atmosphere is an ideal venue for chamber music and communicative interaction between players and listeners, works from the Baroque to the present day will be performed in constellations that are both exciting and harmonious, in which tangible contrasts play just as important a role as a common resonance and the balancing of opposites.

Kam­mer­kon­zert XI

Apollosaal

Kinderkonzert VI

Youth Choir of the State Opera

With his symphonic poems, Franz Liszt founded a new, pioneering genre of orchestral music around the middle of the 19th century. Over the next few years, Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Berlin will be exploring this musical cosmos, which is itself highly innovative and still seems extremely bold today. They will begin with performances of the famous Bergsinfonie, for which the literary-minded Liszt was inspired by a poem by Victor Hugo, and of Tasso, lamento e trionfo, a musical reflection on the legendary Renaissance poet who took shape through Goethe and Byron. In addition, a second cycle begins - the performance of the complete orchestral songs by Richard Strauss, which illuminates a special facet of this composer of the century, also a cross-seasonal project.

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert VIII

Philharmonie Berlin

Johann Sebastian Bach was not only a scholarly composer, but also a popular one. In 1742, he wrote a "Cantate burlesque" in Leipzig, a roughly half-hour-long work later referred to as a peasant cantata . Its distinctive character is not only due to the Saxon dialect in which some sections are written, but also due to the inclusion of dance forms and folk song melodies.

Summer Concert Children's Choir of the State Opera

State Opera Unter den Linden

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Staatskapelle Berlin: Gastspiel in Wien

Musikverein Wien

Several times a year, the Apollo Hall is transformed into a Lied Salon and a performance space for choral music. Soloists from the State Opera ensemble and members of the International Opera Studio cultivate the genre of art song in all its richness and diversity, while the various choral ensembles based at the opera house develop and perform their own programs.

Song recital Katharina Kammerloher

Kam­mer­kon­zert X

Staatsoper für alle - Open-Air-Concert

Seit 2010 spielen Ensembles der Staatskapelle im Bode-Museum, einem Juwel der Berliner Museumslandschaft. Matinee-Konzerte von gut einer Stunde Dauer im Gobelinsaal mit Musik aus den vergangenen Jahrhunderten können zwanglos in weitere Stunden im Museum übergehen – etwa bei einem Ausstellungsbesuch oder kulinarischen Ausklang im stilvollen Museumscafé.

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert X

Gobelinsaal Bode-Museum

Mecklenburgische Bläserakademie

Apollo Choir of the State Opera

Runde zwei Jahrzehnte bereits besteht Preußens Hofmusik, die Kammerorchesterreihe der Staatskapelle Berlin, in deren Mittelpunkt Musik aus dem 17. und 18. Jahrhundert steht, nicht zuletzt auch Komponisten und Werke, die mit der Geschichte der Staatsoper und der Staatskapelle in besonderer Weise verbunden sind. In der Jubiläumssaison von Preußens Hofmusik rückt das Ensemble Johann Sebastian Bach ins Zentrum, der von König Friedrich II. von Preußen sehr verehrt wurde, dessen Söhne zeitweilig in Berlin aktiv waren und dessen so folgenreiche Renaissance wesentlich von Berlin ausging. Inspirierte weltliche wie geistliche Kantatenwerke Bachs erklingen, dazu bekannte Instrumentalmusik wie die staunenswerte Kunst der Fuge.

Preußens Hofmusik III

Violists of the Staatskapelle Berlin one and all, the »Staatsstreicher« – we leave it up to you whether you prefer to translate this pun as »State String Players« or »putschists« – enjoy their occasional forays into other genres. On these excursions, they regularly work with prominent reciters, most of them also moonlighting far from their main professions. Today’s concert focuses on the main work of the (fictitious) author Ernst von Pidde (1877-1966), judge at a district court in his day job. His posthumous book »Richard Wagners ›Ring des Nibelungen‹ im Lichte des deutschen Strafrechts« (Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung considered under the aspect of German Criminal Law) offers a relentless assessment of Wagner’s tetralogy, which is revealed as a conglomerate of serious crimes. 

Staatsstreicher & Thomas de Maizière

Löwensaal

Song recital Evelin Novak & Natalia Skrycka

Sustainable Listening #6

Song recital Elīna Garanča

In music, light and shadow can be distributed in a special way. The two outer works are characterized by brightness and luminosity, both Anton Webern's tone poem Im Sommerwind from 1904, which has outgrown the late Romantic tradition to which the later twelve-tone composer was committed at the beginning of his career, and Antonín Dvořák's 6th Symphony from 1880, which reveals Brahms as a role model, but gains its own character with its sounds borrowed from Bohemian folklore. Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, a work with a strikingly darker timbre, is placed in between and shows the “serious Mozart” who, for all his cosmopolitanism and joy of playing, also reveals many an abyss.

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert VII

Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonín Dvořák, Jean Sibelius, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow, Aris Massland, Samuel Barber

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert IX

Mit dem Opernkinderorchester ergänzen die Staatsoper Unter den Linden und die Staatskapelle Berlin das große Engagement der Musikschulen des Landes Berlin und ermöglichen jährlich ca. 90 Kindern im Altern von 7 bis 13 Jahren einzigartige Erfahrungen auf einer international renommierten Bühne.


Konzert Opernkinder­orchester

Kam­mer­kon­zert IX

Kinderkonzert V

Kam­mer­kon­zert VIII

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert VIII

Song recital International Opera Studio

Kam­mer­kon­zert VII

Genau 100 Jahre ist es her, dass Pierre Boulez geboren wurde, der einflussreiche, maßstabsetzende Komponist und Dirigent, der nicht zuletzt auch mit der Staatskapelle Berlin eng verbunden war. Oft hat er Konzerte des Orchesters geleitet, das ihn 2005, anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstages, zum Ehrendirigenten ernannte. Im diesjährigen FESTTAGE-Konzert wird Musik erklingen, die mit Boulez unmittelbar verbunden ist, Musik von zwei Komponisten, zu denen er eine besondere Beziehung besaß, Alban Berg und Gustav Mahler. Dazu dann eine Komposition von Boulez selbst, die Notations für großes Orchester, mit denen die Staatskapelle durch wiederholte Aufführungen in der Vergangenheit eng vertraut ist.

Festtage­konzert Staatskapelle Berlin

It is exactly 100 years since the birth of Pierre Boulez, the influential, groundbreaking composer and conductor who was closely associated with the Staatskapelle Berlin. He often conducted concerts by the orchestra, which appointed him honorary conductor in 2005 on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This year's FESTTAGE concert will feature music that is directly associated with Boulez, music by two composers with whom he had a special relationship, Alban Berg and Gustav Mahler. There will also be a composition by Boulez himself, the Notations for large orchestra, with which the Staatskapelle is very familiar thanks to repeated performances in the past.

Festive Concert Staatskapelle Berlin

Four times throughout the season, outstanding singers from the international opera world will perform solo recitals in the Great Hall of the Unter den Linden opera house. The repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary, and Schubert's Winterreise , a true classic of the lieder literature, will also be represented. Sonya Yoncheva, Camilla Nylund, Joyce DiDonato, and Elīna Garanča will captivate audiences with their personalities and the power of the music itself.

Liederabend Joyce DiDonato

Kam­mer­kon­zert VI

The collaboration between Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Berlin began in June 2022 with the performance of a Bruckner symphony (No. 7) and continued with another (No. 5) in November 2023. Now the next Bruckner symphony follows with the Sixth, a work that often stands somewhat in the shadow of its neighbors, but has its own individual qualities and a certain “individuality”. The symphony is preceded by Sebastian im Traum by Hans Werner Henze, a composition written in 2004 for large orchestra based on the poem of the same name by Georg Trakl. The music follows the text closely and attempts to visualize its meaning and mood in sound.

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert VI

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert VII

Konzert der Orchesterakademie

Wagners »Ring«-Tetralogie ist ein Kosmos für sich, der vielfach schon musikalisch wie szenisch erkundet worden ist. Das Opernhaus Unter den Linden ist seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert schon ein zentraler Ort der Auseinandersetzung mit diesem »Non plus ultra« des Musiktheaters gewesen, durch rund ein Dutzend verschiedener Inszenierungen und eine kaum überschaubare Zahl von Aufführungen. Diese besondere Geschichte soll an einem Vormittag im Apollosaal beleuchtet werden, im Vorfeld der diesjährigen FESTTAGE, die zwei Zyklen von Wagners »Ring« in der Neuproduktion von Dmitri Tcherniakov vom Herbst 2022 bringen. Tief wird dabei in die Historie der Berliner Hof- und Staatsoper eingetaucht, mit Bildern und Klängen aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, mit Erinnerungen an legendäre Dirigenten und Sänger:innen sowie Blicken auf wesentliche zeit- und kulturgeschichtliche Entwicklungen.

Festtage-Matinee zu »Der Ring des Nibelungen«

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert VI

Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen take a particularly prominent position among Scandinavian composers of distinction. Two of their most important works were composed in the mid-1920s, Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola, a piece about the infinity and sublimity of nature, and Nielsen's sixth and final symphony, which, although labeled “semplice” (simple), is multi-layered and thoroughly complex. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Violin Concerto is a work from his American years, premiered in 1947 but already conceived at the end of the 1930s and dedicated to Gustav Mahler's widow Alma. His experiences with film music, which he had gained in Hollywood, are also - and especially - reflected in this tangibly inspired concerto.

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert V

Kam­mer­kon­zert V

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert V

Preußens Hofmusik II

Anknüpfend an die Premiere von György Kurtágs Oper Fin de partie (nach dem Drama von Samuel Beckett), die im Januar 2025 in der Staatsoper Unter den Linden stattfindet, widmen sich Dirigent Finnegan Downie Dear und die Staatskapelle einem weiteren Werk dieses bedeutenden ungarischen Komponisten. In What is the word wird der gesamte Pierre Boulez Saal zur Spielfläche für diese faszinierende Komposition mit Worten Samuel Becketts von 1990/91. Eingerahmt wird das Werk mit Musik von Béla Bartók und Franz Schubert, die in besonderer Weise klassische Formen reflektieren. Schuberts 5. Sinfonie knüpft an die große Tradition der Wiener Klassik an.

Konzert im Pierre Boulez Saal

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert IV

Jacques-Christophe Naudot, Louis Couperin, François Couperin und Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

Konzert zum Jahreswechsel

Oft ist Engelbert Humperdincks beliebte Oper Hänsel und Gretel zur Advents- und Weihnachtszeit auf der Bühne zu erleben. In diesem Jahr spielen wir eine besondere Version für Familien, mit den Blechbläsern der Staatskapelle im Apollosaal. Zehn Musiker:innen begleiten und bereichern die Märchenerzählung mit den originalen Klängen aus Humperdincks Werk, mit allen bekannten Melodien und poetischem Zauber.

Familienkonzert Lindenbrass

Kam­mer­kon­zert IV

One work for wind instruments, one for strings alone, then in the second part one for the full orchestra and two voices, as well as a journey through the musical history of the first half of the 20th century. After the First World War, Igor Stravinsky created a composition which he called Symphonies for Wind Instruments and which contains characteristic intonations such as bell sounds, chorale and folk song melodies as well as dance rhythms in a small space. Richard Strauss described his Metamorphosen as a “study for 23 solo strings”, his last orchestral work, which took shape in 1944/45 under the impact of the destruction of the Second World War, as a harrowing document of the times. At the beginning of the 1920s, Alexander Zemlinsky, biographically positioned between Strauss and Stravinsky, composed the Lyric Symphony, a series of orchestral songs based on texts by the Indian poet (and Nobel Prize winner for literature) Rabindranath Tagore, as a deliberate counterpart to Mahler's Song of the Earth, a work of great expressiveness and urgency.

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert IV

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert III

Kam­mer­kon­zert III

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert III

Staatskapelle Berlin

Since 2010, ensembles from the Staatskapelle have been playing at the Bode Museum, a jewel in Berlin's museum landscape. Matinee concerts lasting just over an hour in the Gobelin Hall with music from past centuries can easily lead into further hours in the museum - for example, during an exhibition visit or a culinary finale in the stylish museum café.

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert II

Gastspiel Brünn

Janáček-Theater Brünn

Kam­mer­kon­zert II

Kam­mer­kon­zert I

Musik der Hoch- und Spätromantik, dazu ein Werk der Gegenwart. Christian Thielemann spannt in seinem ersten Konzert als neuer Generalmusikdirektor den Bogen von Mendelssohn über Schönberg bis zu dem jungen kanadischen Komponisten Samy Moussa, dessen farbenreiches Orchesterstück Elysium unter seiner Leitung 2021 in der Sagrada Familia in Barcelona zur Uraufführung gebracht worden ist. Igor Levit ist der Solist von Mendelssohns 1837 komponiertem 2. Klavierkonzert mit seinen ernsten wie lyrischen Tönen, während Schönbergs zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts nach dem Drama von Maurice Maeterlinck entstandene, opulent besetzte Tondichtung Pelleas und Melisande seine Verwurzelung in der spätromantischen Klang- und Ausdruckswelt demonstriert.

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert II

Pieces of
Samy Moussa, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Arnold Schönber

Öffentliche Generalprobe für alle U30

Preußens Hofmusik I

Gastspiel Köln

Philharmonie Köln

Gastspiel Luzern

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Gustav Mahlers Lied von der Erde zählt zu den eindrucksvollsten Werken an der Schwelle von der musikalischen Romantik zur Moderne. In der Verschränkung von Liedzyklus und Sinfonie, basierend auf altchinesischer Lyrik in sensibler Nachdichtung, gelang Mahler am Ende seines kurzen Lebens ein kompositorisch spürbar individuelles Werk von großer expressiver Kraft und Spannweite. Das Trompetenkonzert Hush (Stille) der 2023 im Alter von 70 Jahren verstorbenen finnischen Komponistin Kaija Saariaho, ihre letzte, posthum uraufgeführte Komposition, ist in in ähnlicher Weise ein Werk des Abschieds. Geschrieben für den Trompeter Verneri Pohjola begegnet den Hörer:innen eine Musik von faszinierendem Gestalt- und Klangfarbenreichtum.

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert I

Entdecken Sie zu Beginn der Spielzeit die künstlerische Vielfalt und außergewöhnliche Orte in der Staatsoper Unter den Linden!

Staatsoper entdecken – Tag der offenen Tür

Staatsoper für alle - Opernkinder­orchester und Kinderchor

Freie Volksbühne Berlin

Um Spenden für die Musikinstrumentenholzprojekte der Orchester des Wandels in Brasilien und Madagaskar wird gebeten

Klimakonzert Orchester des Wandels

Kraftwerk Berlin

Eine Woche vor der Uraufführung der Oper »Melancholie des Widerstands« des prominenten französischen Komponisten Marc-André Dalbavie geben drei an der Kreation dieser Aufführung wesentlich Beteiligte Einblicke in das Werk und seine musikalische wie szenische Gestaltung: die Dirigentin Marie Jacquot, der Regisseur David Marton und die Produktionsdramaturgin Franziska Baur. Sujet und Handlung werden ebenso beleuchtet wie die Klangwelt der Stimmen und Instrumente, aber auch die besondere Form der Inszenierung als »filmische Oper«.

Einführungsmatinee »Melancholie des Widerstands«

Alte Feuerwache Eichwalde

Anton Bruckner achieved lasting success during his lifetime with his 4th Symphony - the name "Romantic" certainly contributed to this. The musical sceneries unfolded by Bruckner are easy to comprehend when listening, the tonal upswings are of haunting effect. In the first months of his forced exile, Kurt Weill composed the ballet music for "The Seven Deadly Sins" in Paris in the spring of 1933 to a text by Bertolt Brecht - seven stages of a story about two young women in the American South, with clear references to the popular music of the 1920s.

Musik aus Salzburg und Wien, dem Geburtsort und der Wahlheimat von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Er selbst ist mit einer frühen Sinfonie, die er als 15-Jähriger komponierte, sowie einem seiner virtuosen Hornkonzerte aus den Wiener Jahren vertreten. Dass sein Vater Leopold nicht nur ein engagierter Prädagoge, sondern auch ein veritabler Komponist war, stellt sein Konzert für zwei Hörner und Streicher unter Beweis. Parallel zu den Mozarts lebte und arbeitete Johann Michael Haydn in Salzburg, der jüngere Bruder von Joseph Haydn. Als Kirchenmusiker gewann er Renommee, darüber hinaus aber auch als Komponist von Sinfonien und anderer Instrumentalmusik. Einer der Wegbereiter der klassischen Sinfonie wiederum ist Georg Christoph Wagenseil, der in der Kaiserstadt Wien um die Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts zu einem der führenden Musiker aufstieg und die nachfolgende Komponistengeneration maßgeblich inspirierte.

After the concert, you are cordially invited to explore the museum at your leisure. You can also take advantage of the combined offer of concert and guided tour. The guided tours start after the concert at around 12.30 pm at the equestrian monument in the foyer.

Museum Concert III

Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hansel and Gretel" is popular with young and old , especially during Advent and Christmas. This year, a special version for families will be presented, featuring Lindenbrass, the brass ensemble of the Staatskapelle Berlin. Ten musicians accompany and enrich the fairytale narrative with the sounds of Humperdinck's work, including all the familiar melodies and their inherent poetic magic.

Hansel and Gretel

With Franz Lehár, Viennese operetta experienced a noticeable upswing in the first decades of the 20th century. The new flowering of the genre, known as the “Silver Age,” is due not only to the extremely popular The Merry Widow , but also to Lehár’s late operettas from the 1920s and early 1930s, in which he consciously approached grand opera. These works are ambitious and sophisticated, and often feature prominent figures from cultural history, such as the “Devil’s Violinist” Niccolò Paganini or the “Poet Prince” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (in the operetta Friederike ). And with Giuditta , described as a “musical comedy,” he even celebrated a premiere at the Vienna State Opera. Melodic bliss and melancholy are combined in Lehár’s music in a fascinating way.

New Year's concert

Chamber Concert III

Museum Concert IV

With his German Requiem, Johannes Brahms found his own musical tone and expression. Deeply connected to the words and messages of the Bible and the spirit of Romanticism, and grounded in the achievements of tradition, he composed an astonishing work in his early thirties, intertwining vocal and instrumental parts to create a harmonious whole. He masterfully handled both the choir and solo voices, as well as the orchestra, with a multitude of haunting expressive moments that have secured the work a central place in churches and concert halls around the world since its composition in the 1860s.

Symphony Concert IV

This season, the Staatskapelle Berlin and its General Music Director Christian Thielemann will perform at three venues and three renowned European concert halls: the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Munich Isarphilharmonie, and the Vienna Musikverein. In addition to Brahms's impressive German Requiem , they will perform orchestral songs by Strauss and Beethoven's Pastorale – music by composers with whom the orchestra is particularly familiar and with whom it has repeatedly and intensly explored for many years.

Staatskapelle Berlin: Guest performance in Hamburg

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Chamber concert extra

Major symphonies and instrumental concertos typically characterize the Staatskapelle Berlin's programs when it performs on concert stages in Berlin and around the world. In a special concert program, the orchestra and its General Music Director embark on a journey of discovery into the music of those decades when people sat rapt in front of the radio, listening to the sounds emanating from it—sounds that were both symphonic and jazzy, permeated by rhythmic energy and a captivating vibrancy that evokes images of the concert hall, the salon, or the dance floor. Music of high artistic sophistication that simultaneously creates a good mood.

Special concert “Music from distant radio days”

Museum Concert V

"The Fantastic" is the theme of this season's chamber concerts in the Apollosaal, based on the season's first opera premiere, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann . Musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin have developed programs that approach this idea and concept, which play a key role in music, in a variety of ways. Ranging from the Baroque to the present day, with a special focus on the Romantic period, "The Fantastic" will be explored with a variety of chamber music works in diverse ensembles.

Chamber Concert IV

Prussia's Court Music II

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is a monumental work in the repertoire, featuring vocal solos and chorus in the tradition of Beethoven's Ninth. With its five-movement structure and the numerous programmatic indications Mahler incorporated into his music, this Second Symphony is an opus of exceptional sophistication, supported by an exceptionally large performing apparatus. The world and atmosphere of the "Wunderhorn" songs are just as present as the sonic surges characteristic of his symphonic style, culminating in a vision of the "Resurrection," initially mysterious and then brilliant, conveyed through both the words and the music.

Symphony Concert V

Chamber Concert V

Museum Concert VI

"Since Bach's Mass in B minor and Beethoven's Missa solemnis , nothing has been written that can compare with Brahms' German Requiem in this field ," according to the influential music writer Eduard Hanslick. Transcending all denominational boundaries, Brahms created a work that most impressively expresses feelings of suffering and grief, consolation and hope, through a carefully considered selection of texts and with particular sensitivity in the way they are set. Music for Good Friday that reflects this day and simultaneously points beyond it.

Good Friday Concert

Museum Concert VII

Richard Strauss composed more than 40 orchestral songs over a period of decades – all of them are to be performed over several seasons, with a whole range of outstanding singers. No two songs are alike, each one possesses its own tonal characteristics; the range of Strauss’s song art is truly enormous. With his 6th Symphony, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote himself into history as one of the founders of a special kind of “programmatic music”. The Sinfonia pastorale , as he called it, became a powerful work and yet is full of accessibility, grace and charm – in the form of five musical scenes of sharp profile and concise expression that tell of nature and rural life.

Symphony Concert VI

In the 18th century, Central European composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart invented sounds intended to evoke associations with "Turkish music"—for example, in his opera The Abduction from the Seraglio , which premieres at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in June 2026. In addition to Mozart's Prague Symphony , Tim Fluch will also conduct the orchestral work "Effaced Figures" by Istanbul-born Ege Gür, who was awarded the European Composition Prize in Berlin in 2024 and whose works combine influences of 20th-century music with the traditions of classical Turkish music. Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 2 is also on the program.

Concert in the Pierre Boulez Hall II

Staatskapelle Berlin: Guest performance

Gasteig HP8

Vienna Music Society

The Honorary Conductor of the Staatskapelle Berlin turns 90. Since the 1990s, he has regularly rehearsed and conducted opera performances and concerts at the Staatskapelle Berlin and with the orchestra, often offering truly magnificent moments of fulfilling, harmonious music-making. For his milestone birthday, which Zubin Mehta is celebrating together with the Staatskapelle, he has selected music by two composers who have accompanied him throughout his career and continue to inspire him. Mozart's Symphony in G minor, the middle piece of the triad of his famous last symphonies from 1788, can be experienced in combination with Mahler's symphonic debut, composed exactly a century later. Both works capture the composers' characteristic tone, and Zubin Mehta will bring both to life in his own unique way.

Concert for Zubin Mehta's 90th birthday

Museum Concert VIII

Hans Pfitzner composed large-scale, sophisticated operas, as well as opulent orchestral works. In addition to concertos for violin and cello, he also wrote a four-movement piano concerto in 1922, continuing the late Romantic tradition of Brahms and Max Reger. A noticeably innovative spirit, even a musical visionary, was Franz Liszt, who opened a new chapter in European music history with his symphonic poems around the middle of the 19th century. Three of these compositions for a large, richly timbred orchestra, very different in their content and their manifestations, demonstrate the diversity of creative approaches that Liszt applied to this newly developed, soon to be very prominent, musical genre.

Symphony Concert VII

Chamber Concert VII

Beethoven on Bebelplatz – this is what the Staatskapelle Berlin and its General Music Director Christian Thielemann offer the audience at "State Opera for All," open-air and free of charge for all interested parties. The diverse, vividly sculpted natural images of Symphony No. 6, the Pastorale , can be experienced, as can the drama and powerful surges of the Egmont Overture, inspired by Goethe's heroic tragedy. These are two of Beethoven's most distinguished orchestral works, performed by the Staatskapelle Berlin, which can look back on a long-standing Beethoven tradition.

State Opera for all - Open-Air Concert

Unter den Linden & Bebelplatz

Prussia's Court Music III

Chamber Concert VIII

The first premiere of the season on the State Opera stage will be Jacques Offenbach's opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann – and the Opera Children's Orchestra will also be performing this imaginative music. Excerpts from Offenbach's last work will be heard. The program will be complemented by music by other great French musical theater composers of the 19th century.

Concert Opera Children's Orchestra

Among Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's instrumental concertos, his Violin Concerto has held a particularly high status since its composition and premiere in the mid-1840s. As a work of great melodic qualities, harmonic finesse, and rhythmic intensity, it has not been without reason that it has garnered much admiration. Maurice Ravel's ballet music for Daphnis et Chloé , composed and premiered for the Ballets Russes in 1912 , is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of French Impressionism, featuring floating sounds and rich color nuances, as well as a wordless chorus. A story from Greek mythology is impressively relived with and through music.

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