Hamburg’s new General Music Director, Omer Meir Wellber, begins his 5-year tenure this coming Sunday, opening the 25/26 operatic and symphonic season with the first Philharmonic Concert of the Philharmonic State Orchestra on 14 and 15 September at the Elbphilharmonie. The season’s programmes focus on a very special kind of dialogue between the present and the past under the motto “no risk, no fun”.

 

Pianist Stephen Hough will play Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto – with a newly composed second movement by Hough himself  – followed by Bruckner’s 7th symphony. This unusual idea of “over-writing” single movements will be repeated in all concerts this season by international composers – have a look here at the concert programmes this season.

 

You can listen to the concert from 15 September on NDR Kultur.

Two weeks later, the Hamburg State Opera’s opening weekend takes place featuring the Housewarming Concert (26 September) and the new staged production of Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (September 27), conducted by Omer Meir Wellber and directed by Tobias Kratzer.

Upcoming concerts with Omer Meir Wellber in Hamburg:

14, 15 September     Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie
Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr.3 c-Moll op. 37
Stephen Hough: 2. Satz Beethoven Klavierkonzert
Anton Bruckner: Sinfonie Nr. 7 E-Dur
Stephen Hough, piano

27 September     Hamburg, Staatsoper                    premiere

Further performances on 30.09., 3., 11., 14., 24.10., 1.11.

5 October    Hamburg, Staatsoper

10, 30 October     Hamburg, Staatsoper’
Mozart: Così fan tutte

8 October     Blaue Woche, Hamburg

Lotte Betts-Dean, Mezzosopran

12, 13 October     Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie
Vivaldi/Piazzolla: The mandolin seasons
Respighi: Metamorphosen
Jacob Reuven, mandolin