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17. September 2021

Omer Meir Wellber with George Bizet’s Carmen at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (September 2021)

At the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Omer Meir Wellber conducts a production of George Bizet’s opera Carmen today. The production staged by Calixto Bieito will be live streamed on Teatro Massimo TV. It was already performed in 2011 as a co-production of the Teatro Massimo and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Regio in Turin as well as the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and has been performed in various renowned European opera houses since then.READ MORE

9. September 2021

Jan Vogler at the 76th Settimane Musicali di Ascona (September 2021)

Together with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and Fabio Luisi, Jan Vogler will perform Haydn’s Cello Concerto no. 1 at the 76th Settimane Musicali di Ascona on 10 September.

10 September
Settimane Musicali di Ascona, Church of San Francesco Locarno
Haydn: Concerto for cello no. 1
Jan Vogler, cello
Mozart: Ouverture dalle Nozze di Figaro
Beethoven: Sinfonia no. 8 op. 93
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

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3. September 2021

Omer Meir Wellber at the Santa Maria dello Spasimo (September 2021)

Omer Meir Wellber will present a special program on 6 September at 9:30 pm in the unfinished church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the summer of Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Together with Ruggiero Mascellino (accordion and composer) and Vito Giordano (flugelhorn), Omer Meir Wellber himself on the piano and accordion will perform works by Mascellino, Grieg, Piazzolla, Kusturica, Giordano and Shalaev.

The concert at a glance:

6. September, Palermo, Santa Maria dello Spasimo
Mascellino: Atlantis, Pensieri
Grieg: Danza di Anitra
Piazzolla: Invierno Porteño, Verano Porteño
Mascellino: Rêve
Kusturica: Folklore Suite, songs from the Balkans, Valzers
Giordano: September Again, New Things of Love
Shalaev: Melody of the Volga
Mascellino: Arabian Jazz
Omer Meir Wellber – piano / accordion
Ruggiero Mascellino – accordion
Vito Giordano – flugelhorn

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3. September 2021

Kent Nagano with the premiere of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” (September 2021)

On 4 September, Kent Nagano will lead the Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Choir of the Staatsoper Hamburg and soloists in the premiere of Jacques Offenbach’s opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Staatsoper Hamburg. This Opéra Fantastique in five acts is staged by Daniele Finzi Pasca.

4 September, Hamburg, Staatsoper, 6 p.m.
Staatsorchester Hamburg
Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann Premiere
Daniele Finzi Pasca – director

Opéra Fantastique in five acts
Libretto by Jules Barbier
Based on the play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Edited by Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe Keck

Further performances: 7, 10, 16, 19, 22 and 25 September

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2. September 2021

Mari Kodama with concerts in honor of Alfred Brendel (September 2021)

Mari Kodama will give two concerts in Hamburg in honor of Alfred Brendel, whose master student she was. The entire concert cycle will kick off on 3 September at Hamburg’s Curio-Haus with a concert featuring the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra under Kent Nagano, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 7 for three pianos and orchestra with the three soloists Mari Kodama, Paul Lewis and Till Fellner, all three of whom were Brendel’s master students. This will be followed on 4 September by a chamber music program with Mari Kodama at the newly opened JazzHall of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.READ MORE

30. August 2021

Mari Kodama with Beethoven No. 0 (August 2021)

Mari Kodama, known as a benchmark Beethoven interpreter, performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 0 with the Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven under Marc Niemann on 30 and 31 August at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven. It is Beethoven’s almost unknown work from his younger years, which Mari Kodama recorded with the DSO under Kent Nagano and was released as a CD in 2019 on Berlin Classics along with all of Beethoven’s piano concertos as well as Beethoven’s Rondo for Piano and Orchestra WoO 6 and his “Eroica” Variations for Solo Piano Op. 35.

The concert at a glance:

August 30, 31, Stadttheater Bremerhaven
“The Female Beethoven”
Mayer: Faust Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 0 in E-flat major WoO 4
Mayer: Symphony No. 6 E major

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27. August 2021

David Philip Hefti’s “Cantabile” now available on YouTube (August 2021)

David Philip Hefti’s concerto for viola and orchestra “Cantabile”, a 2019 commission from the Musikkollegium Winterthur, was premiered in January 2021. With the orchestra and also the soloist of the evening Jürg Dähler, Hefti shares a long friendship.

You can now watch the premiere of the work on YouTube:

More information about the work, can be found here: www.hefti.net/de/werk/76/

13. August 2021

Rathausmarkt Open-Air Concerts with Kent Nagano (August 2021)

The Philharmonic State Orchestra and Kent Nagano will open the new concert season with the Rathausmarkt Open-Air on 14/15 August 2021. For the first time the concerts will be on to two days with two performances each. after the symphonic prelude on Saturday, a tribute to Jacques Offenbach will follow on Sunday with ensemble members of the Hamburg State Opera. At the same time, the event marks the festive conclusion of the Hamburger Kultursommer. Hamburg’s First Mayor Dr. Peter Tschentscher will give a welcoming speech at the last performance on 15 August at 8:30 pm.

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6. August 2021

The Moritzburg Festival 2021 starts this weekend (August 2021)

This year’s Moritzburg Festival will take place from August 7 to 22. In addition to the opening concert with Jan Vogler (violoncello), Mira Wang (violin), Ulrich Eichenauer (viola) and Janne Saksala (double bass), among others, the program is full of interesting programs. A highlight is the orchestral concert with the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra under Josep Caballé Domenech and featuring Kevin Zhu (violin), Jan Vogler (cello), Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano) and works by de Arriaga, Beethoven and Schumann. Also on the program are the Picnic Concert in the Proschwitz Palace Park, the Long Night of Chamber Music on the North Terrace of Moritzburg Palace, and Special Chamber Music Performances. More information and details can be found here.

This year, the unique atmosphere of eleven concerts on the North Terrace of the Moritzburg Castle and one symphonic concert at the Philharmonic Concert Hall Dresden can be experienced worldwide for the first time through Dreamstage. Please find more information here.

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