Tobias Rempe has been named director of the Berlin Konzerthaus. Rempe will take over the position in the summer of 2025 and will replace Sebastian Nordmann, who has led the concert hall since 2009. Rempe began making music at the age of seven and co-founded Ensemble Resonanz. In a statement, Joe Chialo, Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion noted, “The {…}
The Konzerthaus Berlin has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Martin Lehmann conducts Bach’s “Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 (Teile I-III)” with soloists Marie Luise Werneburg, Henriette Godde, Eric Stoklossa, and Julian Orlishausen. Performance Dates: Dec. 1-3, 2023 Joana Mallwitz conducts a program of music by Brahms Beethoven, and Mahler with soloists Andre Schuen, Bomsori Kim, {…}
This must be a musicologist’s dream: while digging around in musty books in the quiet atmosphere of the library of a music conservatory, to come upon scores by Gaetano Donizetti and realizing that this is not yet another version of “Lucrezia Borgia” (there had been but, in fact, a different opera. Similar in plot and with music passages strongly reminiscent {…}
The Berliner Operngruppe is set to present the world premiere of Donizetti’s “Dalinda” starting on May 14, 2023 at the Konzerthaus Berlin. The opera will star Lidia Fridman in the title role. She will be joined by Yajie Zhang, Luciano Ganci, Paolo Bordogna, David Ostrek, Andrés Moreno García, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Fermin Basterra, Egor Sergeev, and Kento Uchiyama. Felix Krieger {…}
The Konzerthaus Berlin has announced the first part of its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Christoph Eschenbach and Renée Fleming team up for a program of Strauss and Mahler. Performance Dates: August 26 & 27, 2022 Fatma Said the artist in residence will perform a “Fatma and Friends” concert. Performance Date: Sept. 1, 2022 Ursula {…}
(Photo: Lutz Edelhoff) Joana Mallwitz will lead Konzerthausorchester Berlin as its new Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, replacing Christoph Eschenbach. Mallwitz is scheduled to assume the role at the start of the 2023-24 season. Since 2018-19, Mallwitz has served as General Music Director at Nuremberg State Theatre, where she won Conductor of the Year in 2019. At the 2020 Salzburg {…}
(Credit: Eric Bouloumie) Donizetti wrote nearly 70 operas, many of which have been forgotten. Over the last several years many of his works have been rediscovered thanks in part to concert performances, festivals, or recordings. This week German audiences will get to discover the composer’s 1841 one-act opera “Rita” at the Konzerthaus Berlin. The opera will star a cast of {…}
(Credits: Merce Rial / Sara Schöngen / Marco Borggreve) The Konzerthaus Berlin has announced that it will reopen its doors for live audiences in June 2021. For the purpose of this article we will focus only on vocal performances. Spanish soprano Núria Rial will perform Joseph Haydn’s “Berenice che fai” and Mahler‘s Symphony No. 4 alongside conductor Iván Fischer. Performance {…}
The Konzerthaus Berlin is set to present a concert via live stream with a number of acclaimed artists. The concert will showcase Olga Perteyatko, Lang Lang, Max Raabe, Matthias Samuil, Avi Avital, Sayako Kusaka, and Daniel Hope in diverse works. This is the latest opera concert hall to present a performance live with no audience. The Staatsoper Berlin, the Philadelphia {…}