Digital Schedule
On the stage of the currently closed Staatsoper Unter den Linden performances are taking place! Until July 10th, we will be presenting you a current, multidisciplinary concert programme featuring musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, singers of the soloist ensemble, pianists of the opera house and a number of artist friends on our digital schedule as video-on-demand.
The programme of the ten concert streams includes amongst others Camille Saint-Saëns »Le carnaval des animaux« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim, with Polina Semionova as the Swan and Jan Josef Liefers as the Narrator, an opera gala with Olga Peretyatko, Anna Prohaska, Elsa Dreisig, René Pape and Charles Castronovo, among others, liedrecitals, concerts with works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Strauss and Widmann, among others, with chamber music ensembles as well as jazz and Brazilian songs.
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Friday, 22 May: Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sextet op. 81b for two horns and strings
Ludwig van Beethoven: Three Scottish songs for tenor and piano trio
WITH Stephan Rügamer and members of the Staatskapelle Berlin
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Friday, May 29: Brazilian songs & tangos
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Suite for soprano and violin
Heitor Villa-Lobos and Waldemar Henrique: pieces by for soprano and six double basses as well as Argentinean and Finnish tangos for four double basses
WITH Adriane Queiroz, David Delgado and the double bassists of the Staatskapelle Berlin
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Friday, June 5: Music from Mozart to Jazz
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Harmony music for »Così fan tutte«
and music by Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss and Frank Raschke
WITH wind instruments of the Staatskapelle Berlin
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Saturday, 6 June: The Four Seasons (children's concert)
Antonio Vivaldi: »Le quattro stagioni« for string ensemble and cembalo
WITH members of the Staatskapelle Berlin
MODERATION: Nadine Grenzendörfer and Anja Fürstenberg
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Friday, 12 June 2020: Carnival of the Animals
Camille Saint-Saëns: »Le carnaval des animaux« for flute, clarinet, string quintet, xylophone and two pianos
TEXT Loriot
WITH Polina Semionova (swan)
Jan Josef Liefers (speaker)
Daniel Barenboim and Thomas Guggeis (piano)
and members of the Staatskapelle Berlin
Friday, June 19: Liedrecital
Music by Mahler, Wolf, Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Dvořák
WITH Anna Samuil, Natalia Skrycka, Katharina Kammerloher, Stephan Rügamer, Roman Trekel, Jan Martiník und René Pape
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Saturday, 20 June: Opera Gala
Arias by Verdi, Bellini and Rossini
WITH Olga Peretyatko, Elsa Dreisig, Anna Prohaska, Evelin Novak, Ekaterina Siurina, Marina Prudenskaya, Charles Castronovo, Michael Volle, Grigory Shkarupa und René Pape
Friday, 26 June: Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Octet for Strings in E flat major op. 20
WITH members of the Staatskapelle Berlin
UNFORTUNATELY THE RECORDING HAS TO BE CANCELLED
Saturday, 27 June: Solo pieces by Elliott Carter for various instruments
WITH Anna Samuil and members of the Staatskapelle Berlin
Friday, July 3: Schumann, Widmann, Strauss
Robert Schumann: 1st movement from the violin sonata in A minor op. 105
Widmann: »Fever Fantasy« for clarinet, string quartet and piano
Richard Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major op. 18
WITH members of the Staatskapelle Berlin
Subject to change without notice.