»Future« is the motto of the Hamburg International Music Festival 2025, with Hamburg’s orchestras and top-class international guests once again putting together a varied programme for the glittering season finale.
Based on Büchner’s famous drama, »Wozzeck« was a huge success in 1925. The captivating opera about the anti-hero, who fights for recognition in a bad world and fails, is still impressively relevant 100 years later.
Off to 17th century Venice! Star tenor Rolando Villazón becomes a singing gondolier with subtle miniatures by Claudio Monteverdi. He will be accompanied by the lautten compagney BERLIN. Now available: Audience seats on the stage.
One of Europe’s best orchestras opens the 2025/26 Elbphilharmonie season, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, a conductor and composer who has long been associated with the concert hall. At the centre of the concert: the french horn with its brilliant sound.
The US rapper Noname has a gift for putting the complex present into smart words and laid-back music. So it's no wonder that she has already been described as »one of the best rappers alive«.
The Elbphilharmonie Jazz Academy spends a week preparing a new generation of jazz musicians for their professional careers. Saxophonist Donny McCaslin and other renowned musicians present the new generation in an entertaining surprise concert.
For 25 years, Mostar Sevdah Reunion has been delighting audiences with their mix of traditional songs, Balkan rhythms and jazzy influences. They embody the diverse culture of the Balkans – a mixture that crosses borders and touches hearts.
The Czech star conductor loves the mythical orchestral repertoire of his homeland. With Dvořák’s »The Spectre’s Bride«, he discovers another treasure for large orchestra, choir and soloists as the new chief conductor of London’s Royal Opera.
Bassist Milo Haggai-Cohen takes works of classical music and transposes them into his jazz universe. Under the title »Gravitations: Mahler«, he takes elements of the original music and creates new works of art with jazz and spoken word.
The world-renowned conductor Andris Poga comes to the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra with an exciting programme: Luciano Berio »composed« Franz Schubert's 10th Symphony from fragments, Mahler sets Chinese poems to music with his »Lied von der Erde«.
The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sylvain Cambreling have put on a programme between Romanticism and Modernism for the opening of the season in the Laeiszhalle: Lachenmann's »Schreiben« meets Mahler's First Symphony.
Violinist Vilde Frang, cellist Maximilian Hornung and pianist Denis Kozhukin: these three top soloists perform all three of Robert Schumann’s piano trios. They reflect the composer’s eventful life to the highest degree of chamber music perfection.
From 0 to 99: there is something for everyone at our workshops and entertaining concerts aimed at different age groups – not only at the Elbphilharmonie, but also in Hamburg’s city districts.
This episode of Elbphilharmonie Kopfhörer is all about rhythm – in life and in music. Emma (15) and Christoph (18) discover how rhythm determines the pulse of our lives and makes music groove.
Biscuit tins, rain jackets, paper boxes – there's music everywhere. With imagination and great joy, the musicians from Hamburg's Ensemble Resonanz invite us on a musical expedition. A concert stream for children from the age of 6.
