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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 2025-26 Review: Venus & Adonis / Dido & Aeneas

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(Photo: André Krieg) To hear John Blow’s “Venus and Adonis” and Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” in a single evening is to witness a moment of metamorphosis in English music. Antonius Adamske and his forces shaped a journey, tracing how English musical drama moved from Blow’s miniature masque of graceful restraint, to Purcell’s denser, more dramatically various opera, with persuasive {…}
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 2025 Review: Arvo Pärt 90

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(Photo: Daniel Dittus) In recent seasons, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie has turned curation into an act of composition — a series of small-scale but focused festivals exploring how contemporary music still speaks to the soul. Few composers suit its luminous acoustics better than Arvo Pärt, whose world depends on clarity and silence. For his 90th birthday, his music returned here in its {…}
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 2025 Review: Rituel/ Daphnis et Chloé

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(Photo: Carolin Windel) If Pierre Boulez’s “Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna” is music built in air and echo, then Maurice Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé” is the sound of breath and blood. On this evening at the Elbphilharmonie, Sir Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra offered both works not as opposites but as two spiritual ceremonies. Boulez’s “Rituel,” a {…}
News, Season Announcement

Jonas Kaufmann, Cecilia Bartoli, Marina Rebeka, Karita Mattila, Benjamin Appl, Rolando Villazón, & Elsa Dreisig Lead Elbphilharmonie Hamburg’s 2025-26 Season

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The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances for the season. The Symphoniker Hamburg, alongside Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg and Knabenchor Hannover, perform Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem. Mandy Fredrich and Isabelle Huppert are the soloists with Lucie Leguay conducting. Performance Date: August 22 & 23, 2025 Manuel Winckhler, Mauro Peter, Kathryn Lewek, Elsa Dreisig, Äneas {…}
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Ukrainian Conductor Sasha Yenkevych Appointed Conductor Fellow of NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

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The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra has announced the appointment of Ukrainian conductor Sasha Yankevych to the role of Conductor Fellow. In his new role, Yankevych will work under Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert, as well as lead projects with the NDR Youth Symphony Orchestra, and perform as part of the NDR Discover Music! program. Currently, studying to receive his Masters degree at {…}
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Renée Fleming, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Lise Davidsen & Ian Bostridge Lead Elbphilharmonie Hamburg’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credits: Operabase official website / Jiyang Chen / Simon Pauly / Ray Burmiston / Opus 3 Artists official website) The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has announced its 2021-22 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the vocal works only. Baritone Matthias Goerne presents works by Richard Wagner alongside conductor Manfred Honeck. Performance date: Aug. 29, 2021 Soprano Diana {…}
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Thomas Hampson, Leah Hawkins, Lawrence Brownlee & Philippe Jaroussky Lead Elbphilharmonie’s 2021 Summer Performances

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(Credits: Jiyang Chen / Dario Acosta / Shervin Lainez / Simon Fowler) Elbphilharmonie has announced that it will restart concerts for live audiences in June 2021. For the purpose of this article, we will focus on vocal performances. Baritone Thomas Hampson, sopranos Louise Toppin and Leah Hawkins, and tenor Lawrence Brownlee will perform music by Henry Thacker Burleigh, Wilhelm Grosz, {…}
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Elīna Garanča, Jakub Józef Orliński & Thomas Hampson Highlight Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle Hamburg’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Dario Acosta/Deutsche Grammophon/Jiyang Chen) The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg has announce its 2020-21 season. As always we are highlighting the vocal performances of the season. Mikhail Petrenko and Behzod Abduraimov perform works by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2020 Ottavio Dantone conducts Vivaldi’s “Il Tamerlano” with the Accademia Bizantina and Gesangssolisten. Performance Date: Sept. 29, 2020 Beethoven’s “Leonore” {…}
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Pavol Breslik to Replace Jonas Kaufmann At the Grand Opening Concerts of the Elbphilharmonie

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Jonas Kaufmann has cancelled his participation in the Grand Opening Concerts with the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg this January. The announcement was made via Twitter as the company announced that Kaufmann is still ill. Elbphilharmonie stated “@tenorkaufmann has withdrawn from his appearances at our Grand Opening concerts in January due to illness. We wish him a speedy recovery! However, it was announced {…}

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