Richard Galliano. Paolo Fresu. Jan Lundgren Mare Nostrum

Jan Vogler

The name of the German cellist Jan Vogler is associated with his legendary interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous six solo cello suites. The audience will have the opportunity to hear all six works in one concert and thus follow the fascinating dialogue between Jan Vogler’s Stradivarius cello and Bach’s sonorous universe.

Richard Wagner / Siegfried

Performed by the musicians of Concerto Köln and the Dresdner Festspielorchester under the direction of Kent Nagano, this Siegfried is the fruit of years of research into what would be a historically informed reading of Wagner’s operas.

Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Now he sets out into the world: Siegfried, the free hero, is to set right what Wotan, the father of the gods, messed up at the beginning of the story. Finally, part three of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" can be experienced in Kent Nagano's original sound project. Siegfried grows up in the forest, reforges the sword Nothung, slays the dragon Fafner, wins from him the "Ring of the Nibelung", breaks Wotan's spear and lovingly awakens the Valkyrie Brünnhilde.

Jan Lisiecki Rezital

Symphony Concert: Richard Strauss

With his symphonic poems such as "Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche", "Ein Heldenleben" and "Also sprach Zarathustra", Richard Strauss became the most internationally acclaimed young German composer around 1900. Hotly disputed due to the drastic nature of his musical language, these works made Strauss the epitome of the "young savage", who did not shy away from musical shock value for the sake of effect. With the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lorenzo Viotti, chief conductor of the Amsterdam Opera and one of the most celebrated conductors of his generation, shows that the fascination of the symphonic composer Richard Strauss is still unbroken today.

Richard Bona Metropole Orkest

Richard Bona and the Metropole Orkest reunite for a performance of orchestral arrangements of Bona's original music. Bona, a bassist, guitarist, and singer from Cameroon, blends jazz, world music, and pop. A special children's program is available during the first half of the concert.

Gala concert – Richard Wagner

One of the artistic priorities of the Deutsche Oper Berlin has always been and remains the cultivation of the works of Richard Wagner. This means that Richard Wagner's music is firmly anchored in the DNA of this orchestra, its sound characteristics and its repertoire. In the 2024/25 season alone, five Wagner operas are on the programme: DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER, TANNHÄUSER, LOHENGRIN, TRISTAN UND ISOLDE and DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG. The orchestra's special Wagner tradition is also reflected in the fact that many of its members play in the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. The orchestra brings this expertise with them to Chorin, where they present the most prominent passages from various Wagner operas for an entire afternoon. Members of the top-class soloist ensemble such as Maria Motolygina, Flurina Stucki, Martina Baroni, Lilit Davtyan and Byung Gil Kim will be there. Our Kapellmeister Giulio Cilona will conduct.

Jan Mráček plays Strawinski

“Coincidence is itself merely the collision of the creative impulses.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) This concert presents a sound sculpture premiered in 1963 that plays with coincidence and seeks to exhaust the possibilities offered by mechanics. Ligeti’s "Poème symphonique" is a fascinating musical experiment: on stage are 100 metronomes, which are set in motion by some musicians. The metronomes tick away valiantly, all higgledy-piggledy at first, but then more and more of them lose their momentum and fall silent, until in the end only the most persistent metronome remains. Stravinsky, a musical revolutionary like Ligeti, once said of his creative ideas: "You take up a tradition to make something new." For his 1931 Violin Concerto, he drew on the baroque era – but defiantly spiced his music with whimsical ingredients from 20th-century light music. We look forward to welcoming Czech violinist Jan Mráček to the stage as our soloist in this exciting work. Mráček was the youngest prize winner of the "Prague Spring" competition in 2010 and since then has carved out a remarkable career. To bring our programme to a close, our orchestra will play a work that critic Eduard Hanslick found to contain an extraordinary "energy of genuine symphonic invention”. Brahms had completed his last symphony during his summer vacation of 1885. Even before its premiere in Meiningen, which the composer himself conducted, the work triggered associations with the cosmos in Brahms’ friend Elisabeth von Herzogenberg: "The deeper I look into it, the more stars appear, the more individual joys I have, both expected and surprising, and the clearer becomes the consistent character that makes a unity of this multiplicity”.

Jan Lisiecki : Chamber orchestra