2022-23 Concert Season
In the symphony concerts, the concert program for the new season spans the spectrum from Viennese classics to contemporary music, with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Strauss, Rachmaninoff (whose 150th birthday will be celebrated in 2023), Ligeti, Boulez, Birtwistle, Lutosławski, Tan Dun and Eötvös.
In the 2022/23 season, the Staatskapelle Berlin will play 16 major symphony concerts with eight programs in Berlin – in the Unter den Linden Opera House and in the Berlin Philharmonic. Three double dates are under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. The other subscription concerts will be conducted by Simon Rattle, Thomas Guggeis and, for the first time, by Gustavo Gimeno, Cristian Măcelaru and Tugan Sokhiev. Soloists in the subscription concerts are Alexandre Kantorow, Haochen Zhang, Daniel Barenboim (piano), Martin Grubinger (percussion) and Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), as well as the vocal soloists Diana Damrau and Cecilia Bartoli.
The FESTTAGE 2023 concert program includes Beethoven's MISSA SOLEMNIS, which will be performed on two evenings in the Philharmonie (April 2 and 7, 2023): with the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the soloists Elena Stikhina (soprano), Anna Kissjudit (alto), Saimir Pirgu (tenor), and René Pape (bass) as well as the Staatsopernchor, rehearsed by Martin Wright. There will also be a piano recital with András Schiff on April 9, 2023 with works by Bach and Beethoven.
The nine BAROCKTAGE concerts will focus on music from Italy and the composers Mozart and Vivaldi. Among the guests are the Academy for Early Music Berlin, Le Poème Harmonique conducted by Vincent Dumestre, the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca conducted by Dorothee Oberlinger, the Berlin Baroque Soloists, Les Musiciens du Louvre conducted by Marc Minkowski with Mozart's Requiem, the Ensemble Jupiter with Lea Desandre as soloist and Thomas Dunford as musical director and Xavier de Maistre playing a harp recital. For a young audience, there will be children's concerts with Vivaldi's "THE FOUR SEASONS" with members of the Academy for Early Music at the BAROCKTAGE, as well as the Advent concert of the children's choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden under the direction of Vinzenz Weissenburger and with soloists from the International Opera Studio.
SPECIAL CONCERTS include the birthday concert in honor of Daniel Barenboim!
In the 2022/23 season we are celebrating two big anniversaries: Daniel Barenboim's 80th birthday and his 30th anniversary as General Music Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. We are celebrating the anniversary of our General Music Director on November 15, 2022 in the Philharmonie with a concert by the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Honorary Conductor Zubin Mehta and with Daniel Barenboim himself as the soloist at the piano. The program includes Wagner's Overture to RIENZI, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, and Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11.
The concerts at the turn of the year in the Staatsoper Unter den Linden with the Staatskapelle Berlin on December 31, 2022 and January 1, 2023 under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim with Beethoven's 9th Symphony and his Choral Fantasy in C minor Op. 80. With the soloists Camilla Nylund (soprano), Marina Prudenskaya (alto), Michael Spyres (tenor), René Pape (bass), Fabian Müller (piano, debut with the Staatskapelle Berlin) and the Staatsopernchor rehearsed by Martin Wright.
The anniversary concert marking 25 years of the Orchestra Academy will be conducted by Daniel Barenboim on May 21, 2023 in the Great Hall of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
The climate concert of the Orchestra of Change. For more than ten years, the musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin have been committed to climate and environmental protection. The focus of activities is an annual »climate concert«. This season, on November 13, 2022, Gregor A. Mayrhofer's »Wir sind Erde« oratorio to the encyclical »Laudato Si« by Pope Francis will premiere at the Mitte power plant. The young Munich composer, who will also conduct the work, has written an oratorio that urgently calls for the preservation of nature as our indispensable basis of life and appeals to conscious reflection and rethinking. Works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Camille Saint-Saëns are also on the program, and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff can be heard as a soloist. Funded by the Foundation for Cultural Renewal.
The topic of sustainability and the artistic examination of it is also at the center of the event series SUSTAINABLE LISTENING, which is dedicated to climate and environmental issues in discourse and concert performances (January 3 and April 13, 2023, Apollosaal).
A summer concert with works by Dvořák, Britten and Bartók conducted by Edward Gardner and with Sol Gabetta (violoncello) on July 15, 2023, the STAATSOPER FOR ALL concert, conducted for the first time by Zubin Mehta (July 9, 2023), as well as two programs in the Pierre Boulez Saal with Finnegan Downie Dear and Petr Popelka as conductors and Sarah Aristidou as soloist. With works by Schoenberg, Webern, Ravel, and Stravinsky.
GASTSPIELE take the Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim to Asia (November / December 2022) and together with Martha Argerich as a soloist to Vienna (March 7, 2023) and Paris (April 12, 2023).
Under the musical direction of Ido Arad / Krzysztof Urbański, the Staatskapelle Berlin will also perform the Staatsballett premiere STRAVINSKY, with PETRUSCHKA and DAS FRÜHLINGSOPFER. A co-production of the Staatsballett Berlin and the Pina Bausch Foundation (Premiere: June 10, 2023).
The chamber concerts with members of the Staatskapelle Berlin in 2022/23 – alongside the world premiere of DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN – will focus on Franz Schubert’s chamber music oeuvre.
Other concert formats include Prussia's court music (with a focus on Vivaldi), Sunday matinees in the Bode Museum, song recitals in the Apollo Hall with singers from the ensemble, choir concerts and children's concerts for different age groups.
In the 2022/23 season, the STAATSOPER FOR ALL weekend will take place on July 8th and 9th, 2023, with the live broadcast of Verdi's DON CARLO conducted by Daniel Barenboim and an opera air concert by the Staatskapelle Berlin, for the first time conducted by Honorary Conductor Zubin Mehta.