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Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg 2025-26 Review: Brockes-Passion

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(Credit: Jann Wilken) Three hundred and ten years after its inception, George Frideric Handel’s “Brockes-Passion”—his only sacred work set in his native German, based on a libretto from Hamburg—came back home tonight as a living exploration of deep-seated psychological landscapes. This performance, led by Maarten Engeltjes and the ensemble PRJCT Amsterdam, succeeded in achieving a delicate balance between the work’s {…}
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Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg 2025-26 Review: L’Orfeo

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(Credit: Daniel Dittus) Leonardo García Alarcón has already established an impressive track record in early North Italian opera, with his acclaimed “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” at the 2024 Aix-en-Provence Festival and his masterful Cavalli’s “Pompeo Magno” at Bayreuth in 2025. His interpretation with Cappella Mediterranea and the Chœur de Chambre de Namur was imbued with the freshness and vitality {…}
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 2026 Review: I Capuleti e i Montecchi

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(Photo: Jann Wilken) Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie is not an opera house, yet it regularly presents high-calibre concert performances of opera and oratorio—projects that inevitably place artistic and operational pressure on the city’s Hamburg State Opera. This Bellini evening continued that pattern. With Ensemble Resonanz returning after their previous notable “Norma,” the hall again became a theatre of the imagination. In its {…}
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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 {…}
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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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