| 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 Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri Further performances on 30.09., 3., 11., 14., 24.10., 1.11. 5 October Hamburg, Staatsoper Strauss: Salome Weitere Aufführungen am 7., 9., 12.10. 10, 30 October Hamburg, Staatsoper’ Mozart: Così fan tutte 8 October Blaue Woche, Hamburg Boulez, Marteau sans maitre Lotte Betts-Dean, Mezzosopran 12, 13 October Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie Vivaldi/Piazzolla: The mandolin seasons Respighi: Metamorphosen Jacob Reuven, mandolin |