Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Announces 2026-27 Season Featuring Diana Damrau, Rolando Villazón, Golda Schultz, Benjamin App, Gerald Finley, Joyce DiDonato & Jakub Józef Orliński
By Francisco SalazarThe Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances.
The Philharmonia Orchestra, I Vocalisti, ChorWerk Potsdam, Anna Lapwood, and Kerem Hasan will perform music by Kristina Arakelyan, Hans Zimmer, Max Richter, and Camille Saint-Saëns.
Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2026
The Ensemble Resonanz, Anna Prohaska, and Enno Poppe will perform works by Benjamin Britten, Claude Vivier, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Enno Poppe.
Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2026
Jennifer Holloway joins the Symphoniker Hamburg and Sylvain Cambreling for music by Beethoven, Wagner, and Zender.
Performance Date: Sept. 20, 2026
The Cleveland Orchestra will be joined by Golda Schultz and Franz Welser-Möst for a program centering on music by Strauss and Shostakovich.
Performance Date: Oct. 2, 2026
The Compagnie La Tempête and Simon-Pierre Bestion will perform works by Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, and Jehan Alain.
Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2026
The New York Philharmonic, Orfeó Català, and Gustavo Dudamel perform music by John Adams, Zosha Di Castri, and Sergej Prokofjew.
Performance Date: Oct. 19, 2026
Capriccio Stravagante, Cappella Mariana, and Skip Sempé perform works by Pierre Sandrin, Diego Ortiz, Cipriano de Rore, Hernando de Cabezón, Cipriano de Rore, and Orlando di Lasso.
Performance Date: Nov. 7, 2026
Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation” will star Liv Redpath, Michael Porter, and Markus Eiche. Klaas Stok conducts.
Performance Date: Nov. 9, 2026
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä conducts Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 in D minor and Béla Bartók’s “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” with Jennifer Johnston and Gerald Finley.
Performance Date: Nov. 10, 2026
Georg Nigl and Olga Pashchenko perform Shcubert’s “Schwanengesang.”
Performance Date: Nov. 15, 2026
Il Pomo d’Oro, Madison Nonoa, and Jakub Józef Orliński perform music by Arvo Pärt, Komitas Vardapet, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
Performance Date: Nov. 18, 2026
The Prager Philharmonischer Chor, Kirill Gerstein, and Sakari Oramo perform works by Claude Debussy and Ferruccio Busoni.
Performance Dates: Dec. 10 & 11, 2026
Kings Return alongside Joyce DiDonato and Craig Terry will perform a program titled “KINGS ReJOYCE.”
Performance Date: Dec. 15, 2026
Hector Berlioz’s “L’enfance du Chris” will be conducted by Robin Ticciati and will star Marianne Crebassa, Cyrille Dubois, Stéphane Degout, and William Thomas.
Performance Date: Dec. 19, 2026
The Symphoniker Hamburg will be joined by Julia Lezhneva and conductor Bernard Labadie for a Händel and Mozart program.
Performance Date: Jan. 17, 2027
Camila Mandillo and Filipe Gaio perform works by Olivier Messiaen, Ruth Schönthal, Richard Strauss, and Bushra El-Turk.
Performance Date: Jan. 19, 2027
Elionor Martínez and Josep Maria Martí Duran team up for a program featuring music by Claudio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi, Henry Purcell, Alfonso Ferrabosco jun, John Dowland, Francesca Caccini, Anna Campmany, Juan Hidalgo, Georg Friedrich Händel, and Richard Nicholson.
Performance Date: Jan. 22, 2027
Lina Johnson, Olivia Vermeulen, Martin Platz, and Manuel Walser lead Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis.” Jordi Savall conducts.
Performance Date: Feb. 3, 2027
Benjamin Appl and Jerusalem Quartet perform works by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Samuel Barber, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Fritz Kreisler, and Werner Richard Heymann.
Performance Date: Feb. 5, 2027
The Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz will be joined by Diana Damrau and Pavel Baleff will perform scenes and arias from “La traviata,” “Roméo et Juliette,” “Der Rosenkavalier,” “Rusalka,” and others.
Performance Date: Feb. 9, 2027
The Symphoniker Hamburg will be joined by Alexander Roslavets, Sara Davis Buechner, and Sylvain Cambreling for a program of music by Ravel, Strauss, and Mussorgsky.
Performance Date: Feb. 14, 2027
Tabita Berglund conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra with soloists Victoria Randem, Ragnhild Hemsing, and Alexander Malofeev. The program will include music by Grieg.
Performance Date: Feb. 15, 2027
Collegium 1704 and Václav Luks perform works by Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Jan Dismas Zelenka.
Performance Date: Feb. 18, 2027
Joby Talbot’s “Path of Miracles” will be performed by the NDR Vokalensemble and conductor Krista Audere.
Performance Date: Feb. 21, 2027
The Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Solisten, Victoria Randem, Julian Prégardien, and Alexander Lonquich perform music by Schumann.
Performance Date: Feb. 25, 2027
Alain Altinoglu conducts Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” with Angela Brower, Charles Castronovo, John Relyea, and Adrien Fournaison.
Performance Date: Feb. 27, 2027
Anja Bihlmaier conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Sarah Wegener and Jess Dandy.
Performance Dates: Feb. 28 & March 1, 2027
Luigi Nono’s Prometeo / Tragedia dell’ascolto, a cura di M. Cacciari will feature SWR Symphonieorchester, SWR Experimentalstudio, and François-Xavier Roth.
Performance Date: March 6, 2027
Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon perform works by Michael Praetorius, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Ignazio Donati, Samuel Scheidt, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Giovanni Battista Bovicelli.
Performance Date: March 9, 2027
Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz take on music by Carl Loewe, Hugo Wolf, and Franz Schubert.
Performance Date: April 2, 2027
Iván Fischer conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with Maria Bengtsson, Olivia Vermeulen, Andrew Staples, and Hanno Müller-Brachmann as the soloists.
Performance Date: April 5, 2027
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts Weinberg’s “The Passenger” will star Daveda Karanas, Nikolai Schukoff, Adrienn Miksch, Iurii Samoilov, Anna Gorbachyova-Ogilvie, Lidia Vinyes Curtis, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Nadezhda Karyazina, Liuba Sokolova, Helen Field, Géraldine Dulex, Hrólfur Sæmundsson, Marcell Bakonyi, and Albert Casals.
Performance Date: April 10, 2027
The Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg will be conducted by Kent Nagano and will showcase Anna Gabler in Schönberg’s “Erwartung.” The concert will feature Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor.
Performance Dates: April 18 & 19, 2027
The Symphoniker Hamburg will be joined by Sandrine Piau and conductor Sylvain Cambreling for a program of music by Tchaikovsky, Philippe Boesmans, Mozart, and Stravinsky.
Performance Date: April 18, 2027
Krešimir Stražanac leads Salieri’s “Falstaff” with Anett Fritsch, Grégoire Mour, Luigi de Donato, Sophie Harmsen, Arttu Kataja, and Sunhae Im. René Jacobs conducts.
Performance Date: April 26, 2027
Robert Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s “Faust” for Soloists, Choir, and Orchestra will feature Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Orchester, Konstantin Krimmel, Katharina Ruckgaber, Julian Prégardien, Florian Boesch, Domen Križaj, Marie Lys, and Thomas Hengelbrock.
Performance Date: May 4, 2027
The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester will feature Bertrand Chamayou and Barbara Hannigan in a program of music by Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Alexander Skrjabin, Claude Vivier, and Franz Schreker.
Performance Dates: May 6 & 7, 2027
L’Arpeggiata alongside Rolando Villazón and Christina Pluhar will perform “Orfeo son io.”
Performance Date: May 11, 2027
Ema Nikolovska and Sean Shibe join forces for a recital of works by Jules Massenet, John Dowland, Sasha Scott, Detlev Glanert, Thomas Adès, Detlev Glanert, Thomas Adès, Detlev Glanert, Cassandra Miller, Hans Abrahamsen, Franz Schubert, Pauline Viardot-García, and Bob Dylan.
Performance Date: May 13, 2027
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Falla’s “El Amor Brujo” with Marina Heredia.
Performance Dates: May 14 & 16, 2027
The Ensemble Resonanz, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, and conductor Justin Doyle will perform music by Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg, Veljo Tormis, and Judith Weir.
Performance Date: May 18, 2027
Alan Gilbert conducts Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” with Michael Schade, Jamie Barton, Matthias Goerne, and Morris Robinson. The program also includes The Rite of Spring.
Performance Date: May 28, 2027
The Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier perform Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen.”
Performance Date: May 29, 2027
The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, NDR Vokalensemble, Carolin Widmann, and Thomas Guggeis will perform music by Richard Wagner, Peter Ruzicka, and Anton Bruckner.
Performance Date: June 4, 2027
Krassimira Stoyanova joins the Symphoniker Hamburg and David Afkham for a Mozart, Strauss and Saariaho program.
Performance Date: June 6, 2027
Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Mass in B minor” will star Miriam Kutrowatz, Sophie Rennert, Maarten Engeltjes, Julian Prégardien, and Milan Siljanov. Klaas Stok conducts.
Performance Date: June 19, 2027
The Ensemble Resonanz, Natalia Kutateladze, and Giorgi Gigashvili perform works by J.S. Bach, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giya Kancheli, Micheil Shugliashvili, Stevie Wonder, Rosalìa as well as Georgian folk songs and free medleys by Giorgi Gigashvili.
Performance Date: June 22, 2027
