Gustav Mahler 10th Symphony: Adagio and works inspired by Mahler's Tenth by leading composers of our time: Philippe Manoury, Mark Andre, Jay Schwartz and Alexey Retinsky Fragmentary and yet complete: The achingly beautiful Adagio from Gustav Mahler's 10th Symphony, its only half-completed movement, is both a legacy of late Romantic composing and a door opener to modernism. Always [...]
After the brilliant performance of the Cherubini Requiem in May 2023, Thomas Hengelbrock and his ensembles return to the Philharmonie with the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. Johannes Brahms achieved his breakthrough as a composer with this famous work at the age of 35. After Clara Schumann had studied the score, she wrote him what people still [...]
A non-verbal theater of gestures that goes far beyond Shakespeare's work and yet remains true to its core: In King Lear, nine actresses present a female reading of the classic, staged by an interdisciplinary team of artists from Hong Kong around director Tang Shu-wing, the "alchemist of minimalist theater". After performances in Hong Kong and Shanghai, the award-winning physical theater production is now coming [...]
Following the great success of their concert around Mahler's 10th Symphony, Teodor Currentzis and the SWR Symphonieorchester return to the Philharmonie Berlin. Together with the London Symphony Chorus, the SWR Vokalensemble, the Hanover Boys' Choir and outstanding soloists, the orchestra will perform Benjamin Britten's impressive War Requiem. With the Russian soprano Irina Lungu, the [...]
As an independent platform, the VOICES Performing Arts Festival aims to support the voices of artists who have had to leave their homeland and are now looking for new ways to make themselves heard. It explores the question of how artistic identity can transcend geographical borders and how displaced artists can re-establish themselves in a new cultural environment.
Following their successful Elbphilharmonie debut with Sabine Meyer and Mozart's clarinet concerto, Jan Caeyers and the orchestra he founded, Le Concert Olympique, are returning to the Elphi. The renowned Beethoven specialist has set himself a special goal with the Beethoven 27 project, which will run for several years: With 27 works from the pen of the great composer [...]
The title of the play refers to the Eastern philosophical concept of "Mahamaya" - the great illusion that takes over human consciousness and obscures the truth. The actors on stage do not play traditional roles, but engage in a dialog that illuminates the hidden aspects of human existence. At high speed, they exchange questions and answers [...]
The title of the play refers to the Eastern philosophical concept of "Mahamaya" - the great illusion that takes over human consciousness and obscures the truth. The actors on stage do not play traditional roles, but engage in a dialog that illuminates the hidden aspects of human existence. At high speed, they exchange questions and answers [...]
This first staged adaptation of the novel by Belarusian-born writer Sasha Filipenko tells the story of Peter Nesterenko, an officer in the anti-Bolshevik White Guard who, after a long period of emigration at the beginning of the 20th century, made a deal with the Soviet authorities and returned to his homeland. It is a story about forgiveness and the [...]
Spell is a ritual choreography of exhaustion and ambiguity. There is a power in repetition that is almost like a magic formula. The recurring repetition of the same gesture charges it with defiant power and turns it into a form of political resistance. Spell is an embodied incantation that resists the impotence of our daily resistance to [...].
