Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Jakub Józef Orlinski, Diana Damrau, Marina Rebeka, Jonathan Tetelman Lead Philharmonie Essen’s 2026-27 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Philharmonie Essen has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances.
Mandy Fredrich and Christoph Altstaedt perform works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky.
Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2026
The Mark Andre Choir and Electronics will be conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
Performance Date: Nov. 1, 2026
Miah Persson and Vimbayi Kaziboni perform music by Jiaying He, Mark Andre, Morton Feldman, and Rolf Riehm.
Performance Date: Nov. 6, 2026
Performance Date: Nov. 21, 2026
Thibault Noally conducts Händel’s “Agrippina” with Magdalena Kožená, Julia Lezhneva, Carlo Vistoli, Adèle Charvet, Nicolas Brooymans, Renato Dolcini, and Paul Figuier.
Performance Date: Nov. 28, 2026
Ema Nikolovska and Hikaru Kanki perform music by Alma Mahler, Claude Debussy, Dai Fujikura, Francesco Santoliquido, George Gershwin, Gustav Mahler, Robert Schumann, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sato Matsui, and Toru Takemitsu.
Performance Date: Nov. 29, 2026
Fatma Said performs works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Manuel de Falla, and Robert Schumann. Malcolm Martineau performs at the piano.
Performance Date: Dec. 2, 2026
Jakub Józef Orlinski and Melissa Petit perform Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” and music by Arvo Pärt.
Performance Date: Dec. 7, 2026
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Constellation Choir in a Christmas concert with music by Giovanni Bassano, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Herbert Howells, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Johann Gottfried Walther, John Gardner, Lajos Bárdos, Richard Dering, Robert Armstrong, Robert Cowper, Robert Lucas Pearsall, Thomas Weelkes, and William Byrd.
Performance Date: Dec. 8, 2026
The Weihnachtsoratorium für Kinder will star Elvira Bill, Georg Poplutz, and Harald Martini. Wolfgang Kläsener conducts.
Performance Date: Dec. 26, 2026
The Weihnachtsoratorium zum Mitsingen will star Agnes Kovacs, Elvira Bill, Georg Poplutz, and Harald Martini.
Performance Date: Dec. 26, 2026
The company will present “Die Nacht der 5 Tenöre.”
Bettina Ranch, Aljoscha Lennert, and Sebastian Pilgrim star in the New Year’s concert.
Anna Netrebko, Brian Jagde, and George Petean star in a gala with Marco Armiliato conducting.
Performance Date: Jan. 25, 2027
Olga Peretyatko, Jose Carmona, and Matthias Lika perform Orff’s “Carmina Burana” with Andreas Klippert conducting.
Performance Date: Feb. 14, 2027
Diana Damrau leads an opera gala with Pavel Bailiff conducting.
Performance Date: Feb. 27, 2027
Nikola Hilebrand and Alice Coote perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Robin Ticciati conducting.
Performance Date: Feb. 28, 2027
Jonas Kaufmann and Marina Rebeka perform a Verdi program with Jochen Rieder conducting.
Performance Date: March 16, 2027
Justin Doyle conducts Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” with Nuria Rial, Anna Lucia Richter, Guy Cutting, Manuel Gunther, Martin Häßler, and Konstantin Krimmel.
Performance Date: March 26, 2027
Jonathan Tetelman and Marina Monzó perform Federico Chueca, Federico Moreno Torroba, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Gerónimo Giménez y Bellido, Leonard Bernstein, Pablo Sorozábal, and Ruperto Chapí y Lorente.
Performance Date: April 4, 2027
Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz perform works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann.
Performance Date: April 16, 2027
Julian Prégardien leads a program that includes music by Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Julie Gold, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pedro Elias Gutierrez, and Wolfgang Reifeneder.
Performance Date: May 16, 2027
Britain’s Best Englische Chornacht will see music by Benjamin Britten, Bob Chilcott, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edward Elgar, Georg Friedrich Händel, Hubert Parry, John Rutter, John Stanley, and Thomas Tallis.
Performance Date: June 19, 2027
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