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3. October 2025

Midori wins Cremona Music Award and Casals Prize (September/ October 2025)

Midori received the Cremona Music Award on September 26, and on October 5 she will be honored with the Casals Prize during a concert with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Kronberg.

The Cremona Musica Awards are being presented during the annual Cremona Musica Exhibitions and Festival to individuals and institutions from the music world who have achieved outstanding accomplishments in their field. The awards are divided into categories and include composition, performance, projects, and communication, among others.

The Casals Prize is intended to support and encourage artists to follow the example of Pablo Casals and thereby inspire future generations as role models.

3. October 2025

Festival “Drei Tage wach” – Omer Meir Wellber opens his first season as Hamburg’s General Music Director (September 2025)

From September 26 to 28, the Hamburg State Opera hosted the festival “Drei Tage wach,” with which Omer Meir Wellber as the new General Music Director and Tobias Kratzer as the new Artistic Director opened their first season.

The festival began on Friday with the Housewarming Concert, which covered all possible genres and eras.

On Saturday, under the motto “What opera can do,” Wellber and Kratzer’s first joint opera production followed—Robert Schumann’s opera “Das Paradies und die Peri” (Paradise and the Peri).

On the third day, “Generation Future,” the premiere of the children’s opera “Die Gänsemagd” (The Goose Girl) followed, as well as a presentation by the Hamburg Ballet.

3. October 2025

Max Volbers’ new Album “Bach vs. Scheibe“ (September 2025)

On September 5, Berlin Classics released Max Volbers’ latest album, “Bach vs. Scheibe,” featuring Concerto Köln and soprano Marie-Sophie Pollak, for which he is the artistic director.

In the album, the orchestra takes up a dispute that started in 1737 between Danish music critic Johann Adolf Scheibe and none other than Johann Sebastian Bach. In his magazine “Der Critische Musicus,” Scheibe called Bach’s compositions “confused and pompous.” Bach’s response was not long in coming, and so a dispute ensued that lasted for years.

Thus, this album not only contains the music of two contemporaries, but also shows the transition from the High Baroque to the Classical period and is an expression of an aesthetic generational conflict.

3. October 2025

Kent Nagano conducts Wagner’s “Siegfried” as the third opera in “The Wagner Cycles” at the Lucerne Festival (September 2025)

On September 12, Kent Nagano presents Richard Wagner’s “Siegfried” together with the Dresden Festival Orchestra and Concerto Köln as part of “The Wagner Cycles” project.

What began in 2023 with a concert performance of “Rheingold,” continued in 2024 with “Die Walküre,” and now goes on with the development of “Siegfried,” can be considered a benchmark for Wagner interpretation. The Wagner Cycles project is dedicated to Richard Wagner’s monumental opera tetralogy in a unique combination of theoretical and practical approaches.

15. August 2025

Midori with Christoph Eschenbach at the Elbphilharmonie (August 2025)

International violin star Midori will perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the SHMF Festival Orchestra conducted by Christoph Eschenbach on August 17 in Sonderburg, Denmark, and on August 18 at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Midori made her debut at the SHMF in 1986 at the age of 14 with three sonata recitals and has since thrilled audiences in almost 30 concerts at the festival. Her long-standing musical friendship with conductor Christoph Eschenbach, who celebrated his 85th birthday this year, lends a special quality to the two upcoming concerts.

 

More information on shmf.de

 

17. August    Sonderburg, Konzertsalen Alison, SHMF
18. August    Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie, SHMF
SHMF Festivalorchester, Christoph Eschenbach/Conductor
Mendelssohn: Violinkonzert

22. July 2025

Kent Nagano conducts Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Widmann (July 2025)

To round off the season, Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra are going on tour once again: together they are giving eight concerts in China and Taiwan. The Asian tour, which is also the Philharmonic State Orchestra’s debut in China, starts on July 7 with a concert in the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall in Hamburg’s twin city Shanghai. The tour continues via the National Center for the Performing Arts Beijing and Shenzhen Symphony Hall. In Taiwan, further concerts are planned at the National Theater and Concert Hall Taipei. The last stop will be the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts Weiwuying on July 19.
The program includes symphonies by Beethoven and Brahms, piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven as well as music by Jörg Widmann. The celebrated pianists Rafał Blechacz and Jan Lisiecki will perform as soloists.

5. July 2025

Erwin Schrott at the Bavarian State Opera (July 2025)

On 17 and 20 July, Erwin Schrott will sing the role of Massimiliano in the Bavarian State Opera’s production of Verdi’s I MASNADIERI, directed by Johannes Erath and conducted by Antonino Fogliani.

I MASNADIERI, composer Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Andrea Maffei based on Friedrich Schiller’s drama “Die Räuber”.

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26. May 2025

Omer Meir Wellber with “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Volksoper (May 2025)

On 24 May, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the premiere of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in a production by Lotte de Beer at the Vienna Volksoper. Further information here. On 21 June, he will also conduct the premiere of the production of Bizet’s Carmen at the Rome Opera, directed by Fabio Ceresa, as well as the special project ‘Trau deinen Ohren’ at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, including the commissioned composition ‘Near and Far’ by Josef Bardanashvili.

24 May Vienna, Volksoper
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Lotte de Beer, Regie
Further performances on: May 30, June 8 and 11

21 June Rome, Rome Opera
Bizet: Carmen
Fabio Ceresa, Regie
Further performances on: June 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

8 July Pronstorf, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
9 July Wotersen, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
“Trau’ Deinen Ohren”
Improvisations Omer Meir Wellber accordion
Mozart: Serenade in G major KV 525 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (15′)
Dvořák: Serenade for strings in E major op. 22
Josef Bardanashvili: “Nah und Fern” (commissioned by the SHMF)
String ensemble of the Volksoper Wien
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor and accordion

10 July Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Works by George Frideric Handel, Giuseppe Donizetti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and others
Mert Süngü, tenor
Omer Meir Wellber, accordion and harpsichord
String Quintet of the Vienna Volksoper

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