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Have you always dreamt of singing in some of the greatest hits of classical music? This is your chance! With the help of our luxurious ”backing band”, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, it’s time for you to participate and sing along in well-known music pieces. We dare to promise you a powerful experience.The sing-along is led by Emilie Power, organist and choir leader of the Katarina parish. Lyrics will be handed out ahead of the concert.Strollers and prams cannot be brought into Konserthuset Stockholm and are best left at home. A designated stroller tent is set up outside the entrance, where prams can be left, subject to space availability.
There are concerts which should be found in everyone’s calendar, particularly at the time of year when we replace our calendars with entirely new ones. Some of those are the meetings with music on New Year’s Day. Even though their repertoire is rarely surprising, this is exactly where their charm lies. Beginning another year, we want to surrender to insouciant fun and hopes of a glorious new time to come. Simultaneously, despite the time flying, we want to keep certain things the way they are.It is such an atmosphere that we are unfailingly introduced to with the most famous waltzes and polkas by members of the talented Strauss family, as well as tunes from operettas by Franz von Suppé, Franz Lehár and Bedřich Smetana. Of course, we have all heard The Blue Danube and Radetzky March, hundreds of times – but should this be of any significance? Once a year, let us once more luxuriate in the well-known melodies we have already heard so many times, just for the sake of the pleasure itself. A comfortable chair in the best concert hall in the world, the NOSPR and Nestor Bayona on stage, and danceable rhythms and melodies sparkling with joy in the air. What more could one wish for!Szymon MaliszewskiConcert duration (intermission included): approximately 110 minutes
Ring in the new year with a stirring celebration of classical favourites, including a complimentary drink.
The KlassikPhilharmonie Hamburg (previously Hamburger Mozart-Orchester) was founded in 1978 by conductor Robert Stehli. The orchestra’s repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the Modern period. In addition to concerts at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and the Mozartfest Würzburg as well as international tours, the KlassikPhilharmonie is a regular and welcome guest in Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle.
Alster Konfekt is an excellent salon ensemble with an extraordinary line-up. Lisa Butzlaff (flute), Fedor Erfurt (bass clarinet) and Natalya Klem (piano) cultivate the fine tradition of stylish salon and café music, charmingly and sophisticatedly presented in the best tradition of the »Palm Court« trio. In the (pre-)Christmas concert, the trio serves up a star-studded menu with an exquisite selection of fine classical music and salon music highlights. Swinging waltz melodies from the Strauss dynasty, spicy Hungarian appetisers such as »Eljen a Magyar« or Brahms’ »Hungarian Dances«, variations of unforgotten character pieces, Viennese songs, evergreens refined with the crème de la crème of salon music such as »Salut d’Amour«. With elegance, charm and verve, the Alster Konfekt trio brings musical delicacies from the noble and glamorous golden age to your ears.
You can simply go to a concert at the Philharmonie, spontaneously, during your lunch break – and with free admission: every Wednesday at 13:00 between September and June. The programme lasts 40 to 50 minutes: chamber music, piano works or a percussion duo – everything from Tchaikovsky to tango. Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Karajan Academy regularly perform, as well as guests from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berlin music conservatories. As can be expected at a lunch concert, catering is available from 12 noon until shortly before the concert begins.
The Bremer Philharmoniker's benefit advent concert celebrates their 200th anniversary with music director Stefan Klingele, soprano Elisa Birkenheier, tenor Oliver Sewell, and the Theater Bremen children's choir. The program includes works by Bach, Dvořák, film scores, and festive music. Proceeds benefit the WESER-KURIER Christmas charity.
The Hamburg Doctors’ Orchestra is mainly made up of doctors and musicians from medical professions. The orchestra was founded in 1964 and performs for charitable purposes: for example, to support the work of the Hamburg Hospice Foundation.
What happens when musical notes come to life? Would they live together harmoniously, or would a chaotic mess ensue? What stories could these notes tell us? Would there be love stories, stories of thieves and other adventures - or all at once? Come to our adventure concert to find out what our note and pantomime duo Bodecker & Neander have to tell without words and only with the help of our musicians!
Carmen values her freedom above all else, refusing to conform to societal norms. Sergeant Don José becomes obsessed with her independent spirit, abandoning everything for her. However, Carmen soon loses interest and falls for the bullfighter Escamillo. Desperate, José wants Carmen back at any cost. Bizet's "Carmen" features a strong female lead who contrasts with typical 19th-century opera heroines. Director Lindy Hume views Carmen as a self-determined woman, not a femme fatale.
Oper in vier Akten
Wiederaufnahme CARMEN
Unfortunately, Pepe Romero had to cancel his participation in the concert at short notice due to an acute case of illness in his family. Thankfully, MILOŠ has spontaneously agreed to stand in for him and take over the solo part in Joaquín Rodrigo’s »Concierto de Aranjuez«. The programme can therefore remain unchanged.
Kuhn, the organ builder, states that upholding tradition isn't nostalgia, but a testament to the vibrant present. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Essen Philharmonic and its Kuhn organ, exceptional organists Angela Metzger and Benjamin Righetti will perform a new piece by Michael Pelzel for two consoles. The closing concert of Orgelfestival.Ruhr2024 will feature six Ruhr organists on the Schuke organ.
Whether the rousing and energetic Boléro by Maurice Ravel, the Suite from the opera »Carmen« or the Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla: the Sinfonia Leipzig under the direction of Knut Andreas sets the musical mood for spring with this special concert.
Free and untamed is how the heroine of Bizet’s world-famous opera »Carmen« wants to live her life – and she would rather perish than submit to a man’s will. And at the end Carmen does indeed die to the sounds of what may be the most passionate opera music ever written. After countless highlights in the Baroque repertoire, masterful Mozart interpretations and excursions into the world of German Romanticism, conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra venture into the heated bullfighting atmosphere of this piece, which premiered in 1875 2 in a very special version. »Carmen« is performed in a version that Bizet originally intended before the director of the Opéra comique urged him to make far-reaching changes. The original manuscripts of the original version have now been analysed and used as a basis to reconstruct a »Carmen« that has never been heard before. Gaëlle Arquez as an experienced Carmen and Sabine Devieilhe as her rival Micaëla sparkle as the two female leads, creating an explosive, passionate mixture together with the baritone Thomas Dolié as toreador Escamillo and tenor François Rougier as the man obsessed with Carmen, Don José. In this concert performance version, too, »Carmen« promises to set the auditorium on fire.