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For lovers of chamber music the Recital Hall is the venue of choice. You can hear the musicians breathe and you can practically touch them. This hall is also cherished by musicians for its beautiful acoustics and direct contact with the audience. In the Recital Hall you can hear the best musicians of our time. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Recital Hall for yourself!
From January 2025, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden will present György Kurtág’s only opera Fin de partie, based on Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. During the run of performances, the Staatskapelle and a group of vocal soloists bring Kurtág’s 1990 Beckett homage What Is the Word to the Pierre Boulez Saal, continuing the annual tradition of the orchestra’s guest concerts. Kurtág’s fascinating score is framed by works of Béla Bartók and Franz Schubert. Young British conductor Finnegan Downie Dear, who led the Staatskapelle’s previous Pierre Boulez Saal appearance, returns to the podium. Presented by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in cooperation with the Pierre Boulez Saal. Tickets are available exclusively from the Staatsoper Unter den Linden: staatsoper-berlin.de
From a recital by an Aphrodite on the eve of Valentine’s Day, one might expect a classic ode to romantic love, but singer Aphrodite Patoulidou has something else in mind.
The American star baritone Thomas Hampson is regarded as one of the best opera singers in the world. His operatic repertoire comprises more than 80 roles and his discography includes more than 170 albums. He has been honoured countless times with prestigious awards for his outstanding artistic work, including the Met Mastersinger Award, the Concertgebouw Prize and the Grammy Award. In the Elbphilharmonie, opera star Thomas Hampson presents an exciting programme of works by Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven together with conductor Martin Haselböck and the Wiener Akademie orchestra.
In the second part of the chamber music festival by and with the musicians of the Gropius Quartet and the string trio Klangrausch, the latter will perform chamber music highlights together with illustrious guests. From Dvořák’s famous Terzetto to Schubert’s Erlkönig with vocal star Günther Groissböck, Gustav Mahler’s marvellous piano quartet and Arensky’s quartet with two cellos with Camille Thomas. An evening that is certainly unique in this mix.
For lovers of chamber music the Recital Hall is the venue of choice. You can hear the musicians breathe and you can practically touch them. This hall is also cherished by musicians for its beautiful acoustics and direct contact with the audience. In the Recital Hall you can hear the best musicians of our time. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Recital Hall for yourself!
A young man is deeply in love in Wilhelm Müller's poem cycle "Die schöne Müllerin." Although the story begins with butterflies in the stomach, it takes an unhappy turn and ends badly. Franz Schubert's music captures the soul drama of the unhappily in love. "Fit fürs Abi" offers a concert experience with an introduction to the work.
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir was founded in 1945 by the then 27-year-old Eric Ericson, and has since then occupied a central place in Swedish and international music life. The choir ranks among the absolute top tier of professional ensembles internationally, and since 2003, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir has had a close collaboration with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at Konserthuset.The choir's repertoire is very broad and spans from the Renaissance to the present day. In this concert, the choir has chosen to focus on the great German-speaking Romantic composers such as Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Johannes Brahms, but also the lesser-known Peter Cornelius.The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir is led by guest conductor Justin Doyle, chief conductor of the prestigious RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin, where he also works as a professor of choral conducting at the Hanns Eisler School of Music.
A young man is deeply in love in Wilhelm Müller's poem cycle "Die schöne Müllerin." Although the story begins with butterflies in the stomach, it takes an unhappy turn and ends badly. Franz Schubert's music captures the soul drama of the unhappily in love. "Fit fürs Abi" offers a concert experience with an introduction to the work.
Two highlights of classical music, W.A. Mozart’s Requiem in D minor and the mighty »German Mass« No. 2 by Franz Schubert - two of the most moving masterpieces for orchestra and choir on one concert evening! The Czech Symphony Orchestra Prague takes up the great challenge of presenting these two works in one event.They will be masterfully and vocally supported by four excellent soloists and the Coro di Praga.
Lieder sind für ihn Erlebnisreisen, emotionale Achterbahnfahrten. Tenor Ian Bostridge wagt in dieser Kunstform immer das Äußerste, denn sie verlangt von ihm das Äußerste seiner künstlerischen Möglichkeiten. Höchste Ansprüche sind für Bostridge die einzige Messlatte.Ob Momente absoluter Glückseligkeit oder Todes-Traurigkeit, ob jubelnder Überschwang oder weltentrückte Melancholie: Der britische Tenor Ian Bostridge lotet den Gehalt von Liedern stets mit intellektueller Schärfe und dichter emotionaler Bandbreite aus. Das macht seinen Vortrag immer wieder unverwechselbar. Seit vielen Jahren schon steht sein Name für anspruchsvollen Liedgesang. Mit dem Oberon Trio hat er ein neues Programm erarbeitet, das sich der Suche nach Schönheit widmet.
For lovers of chamber music the Recital Hall is the venue of choice. You can hear the musicians breathe and you can practically touch them. This hall is also cherished by musicians for its beautiful acoustics and direct contact with the audience. In the Recital Hall you can hear the best musicians of our time. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Recital Hall for yourself!
Mignon, Ophelia, and Mary, Queen of Scots—these three towering figures of literature and history provide the inspiration for an evening of words and music created by Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau, and actor Helmut Mooshammer. In addition to Goethe settings by Beethoven, Schubert, Wolf, Duparc, and Josephine Lange and Ophelia songs by Brahms, Strauss, Chausson, and Wolfgang Rihm, the program also includes Robert Schumann’s Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, the composer’s final vocal cycle written in 1852.
This chamber music concert demonstrates how often music finds words for the inexpressible: Hugo Wolf composed his »Italian Serenade« for strings as an homage to the light-heartedness of his youth. If the tone in this work is cheerful, his songs reveal a different facet of the composer. In them, he attempted to unmask the masking of people, full of impressive authenticity and deep emotion. His Intermezzo in E flat major, which Wolf wrote a year before the Italian Serenade, is filled with elegy and hopeful passion. A composer’s life that wavered repeatedly between heaven and the abyss.
Three outstanding young singers unite in a programme of love, loss, and remembrance, where Schubert and Errollyn Wallen are entwined in Britten’s five haunting canticles.
The young German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel won several competitions early in his career and is now part of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper. From 2021 to 2023, he was a BBC New Generation Artist.Lied singing is an important part of his artistry, and he has recorded songs by composers such as Schubert and Silvestrov on a couple of CDs with pianist Hélène Grimaud. For his debut at Konserthuset, he performs songs by Brahms, Vaughan Williams, and Schubert.Magnus Svensson is the artistic director of Konserthuset’s Lied concerts. In addition to concerts in the Nordic region and elsewhere in Europe, he has also performed in Russia and the US. Since 2012, he has also worked at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music with re-publishing older Swedish music.
In 2016, the composer Robert Fürstenthal died in San Diego, California, at the age of almost 100. After fleeing the Nazis and settling in the United States in 1939, he had a successful career as an accountant before returning to composition in the 1970s, writing music that evokes his hometown of Vienna. Rafael Fingerlos, who collaborated with the composer on the premiere recording of his songs shortly before Fürstenthal’s death, is joined by Joseph Middleton to present a selection of these works, juxtaposed with compositions by Max Bruch, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Schubert.
After Beethoven’s brillant Leonore Overture No. 3, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France performs two major choral works, Fanny Hensel’s feverish Hiob and Schubert’s Mass No. 5, which it took him three years to write.
On the operatic stage, Austrian mezzosoprano Sophie Rennert is acclaimed for her portrayals of Baroque heroines—including her celebrated debut as Galatea in the staged production of Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in November 2023 at the Pierre Boulez Saal. Together with pianist Joseph Middleton, she now gives voice to her other great passion: the lied repertoire. In addition to a selection of works by Franz Schubert, the duo performs Mahler’s moving Rückert Songs.
For lovers of chamber music the Recital Hall is the venue of choice. You can hear the musicians breathe and you can practically touch them. This hall is also cherished by musicians for its beautiful acoustics and direct contact with the audience. In the Recital Hall you can hear the best musicians of our time. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Recital Hall for yourself!
With En Masse, its show featuring ten acrobats and three musicians, the innovative Australian company Circa has crafted a stunning stage creation about human relationships, musically structured around pieces by Schubert and Stravinsky.
