Festival ›Ultraschall Berlin‹ II

Festival ›Ultraschall Berlin‹ I

Experimenting is the name of the game here. ›Ultraschall Berlin‹, the festival for new music, regularly presents new sounds at the beginning of the year in the Haus des Rundfunks broadcasting centre. Whether world premieres and first performances in Germany, works of the recent past, or classics of the avant-garde – ›Ultraschall Berlin‹ combines a look at the new, the wild, the unconventional with forays through the music history of the past 70 years. Organised by the radio3 and Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio stations, the festival continues the ›Musik der Gegenwart‹ series, with which the DSO has been bringing the most recent compositions to the Berlin stage in legendary concerts since the 1950s. In 2025, the orchestra will again be performing the opening and closing concerts of the festival.

Abon­ne­ment­kon­zert II

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.

Kam­mer­kon­zert II

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.

Kinderkonzert II

Kinderkonzert II

Kinderkonzert II

Kinderkonzert II

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert II

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.

Musiktheaterwerkstatt II

Verdi's comic opera "Falstaff" is the focus of directing students. Students regularly explore both famous and lesser-known works, offering their unique perspectives. Disguise and deception are central as the women trick the lustful and broke Falstaff. The opera's libretto is based on Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor".