Johann Strauß | Die Fledermaus
Fri, Dec. 22, 2023, 7.00 pm - 10.15 pm
Musikalische Leitung
Sasha Scolnik-Brower
Musical Direction
Sasha Scolnik-Brower is an American conductor based in Amsterdam and Boston. In 2023, he made his debut with the Noord Nederlands Orkest and Orchestre de Paris, conducted a production of Rossini’s La scala di seta at the Bredeweg Festival in Amsterdam, led performances with the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. with Jennifer Koh and students from The Juilliard School.
In various contexts, he has also conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, and Phion Orkest, among others. Other recent projects include serving as the cover conductor for the New York Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, and National Symphony Orchestra. Future performances include a New Year’s concert with the Netherlands Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and a production of Monterverdi / Elena Kats-Chernin’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with the Dutch National Opera Academy and the Residentie Orkest as well as his debut at the Hamburg Staatsoper with Die Fledermaus.
Sasha is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied with David Robertson and of the Dutch National Master’s of Orchestral Conducting where he worked with Jac van Steen, Ed Spanjaard, Kenneth Montgomery, and Antony Hermus. He was also a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival for two years for which he was awarded the Robert Spano Conducting Prize. Sasha previously studied English and Music at Harvard University.
Sasha has recently joined the prestigious ‘Askonas Holt Conducting Fellowship’
Find further information about Sasha Scolnik-Brower here.
Chor
Christian Günther
Associate Chorus Master
Birthplace:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Studies:
Conducting at University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, conducting lessons with Neeme Järvi, Jorma Panula and Gianluigi Gelmetti
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Assistant Chorus Master at Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Career stages:
Assistant of the Chorus Master at Hamburg State Opera (2008-2019), regular guest appearances at NDR-Chorus (since 2018), Guest Chorus Master at Zürich Opera House (2018), Assistant of Eberhard Friedrich with the Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival (2017), Guest engagements at Music Festival Bremen, at Festival der Projektgruppe Neue Musik Bremen as well as at Oh Ton-Ensemble Oldenburg, Leader of the Ensemble “Atelier Neue Musik”, Lectureship at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (since 2007), Associate Chorus Master and Leader of the children's chorus at Theater Bremen (2002-2007), 2nd Capellmeister at Theater Bremen (2005-2007), Conductor of the Ensemble “piano possible” Munich (1996-2007), Guest répétiteur at Stuttgart State Theater, Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and at the Biennale in Munich
Cooperation with choruses:
Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, NDR Chorus, Children's chorus of Theater Bremen, et al.
Eisenstein
Huw Montague Rendall
Baritone
Studies:
At the Royal College of Music under Russell Smythe, David Rendall and Philip Doghan
Important parts:
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Guglielmo (Cosi Fan Tutte), Conte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Schaunard (La bohème), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos Marcello), (La bohème), et al.
Stages:
Royal Opera House, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opernhaus Zürich, Komische Oper, Opéra National de Lorraine, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Garsington Opera, Opéra de Rouen Normandie, et al.
photo: Alecsandra Dragoi
Rosalinde
Jacquelyn Stucker
Soprano
Birthplace:
Pennsylvania. USA
Studies:
New England Conservatory with a Doctorate in Musical Arts, alumna of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Prizes:
Second-place prize-winner of the inaugural Glyndebourne Opera Cup, finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council’s New England Region auditions
Important parts:
Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Dalinda (Ariodante), Hansel/Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Eurydice (Orfeo et Eurydice), Armida (Rinaldo), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), et al.
Stages:
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Royal Opera House, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Glyndebourne Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Barrie Kosky, Ted Huffman
Cooperations with conductors:
Nathalie Stutzmann, Sir Donald Runnicles, John Eliot Gardiner, Antonio Pappano, Leonardo García Alarcón
photo: Dario Acosta
Frank
Thorsten Grümbel
bass
Birthplace:
Siegen, Germany
Studies:
In Lübeck and Detmold
Prizes:
Prize winner Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin (1998), prize winner Meistersängerwettbewerb Nürnberg (1999), et al.
Important parts:
Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Figaro, Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello, Komtur (Don Giovanni), Graf Walter (Luisa Miller), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Philipp II. (Don Carlo), Banco (Macbeth), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Landgraf (Tannhäuser), Fasolt, Fafner, Hunding (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), König Heinrich (Lohengrin), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), König Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Graf Waldner (Arabella), Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), Peneios (Daphne), Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Vodnik (Rusalka), Sir John Falstaff (Die lustigen Weiber), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), et al.
Stages:
Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Frankfurt, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National de Paris, Semperoper Dresden, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen, Bayerische Staatsoper, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Königliche Oper Stockholm, Theater an der Wien, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Komische Oper Berlin, Theater Kiel, Staatsoper Hannover, Nationaltheater Prag, St. Margarethen Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Ludwigsburger Festspiele, Opernfestspiele in Savonlinna, Taipeh, Rouen, Lille, Luxemburg, Caen, Basel, Köln, Festspiele in Mézières, Montreux, Straßburg, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Christof Loy, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Dimitri Tcherniakov, Harry Kupfer, Stefan Herheim, Johannes Erath, Olivier Py, Tatjana Gürbaca, Keith Warner, Sabine Hartmannshen, Dietrich Hilsdorf, David Bösch, Barrie Kosky, Philipp Himmelmann, Axel Köhler, David Alden, Andreas Kriegenburg, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Axel Kober, Sebastian Weigle, Hans Wallat, Carlo Franci, Neeme Järvi, Kent Nagano, Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur, Ingo Metzmacher, Seiji Ozawa, Peter Schneider, Gabriel Feltz, Lothar Zagrosek, Stefan Soltesz, Philippe Auguin, John Fiore, Wen-Pin Chien, Motonori Kobayashi, Constantinos Carydis, Alejo Pérez, Alexander Joel, Georg Fritzsch, Asher Fisch, et al.
photo: Andreas Endermann
Orlofsky
Kristina Stanek
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Krefeld, Germany
Studies:
Master studies with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music, London
Master classes:
With KS Brigitte Fassbaender, Charlotte Lehmann, Rudolf Piernay, Grace Bumbry
Prizes:
Best young singer at the European Music Festival Rome, Italy; 1st prize at the Mozart Competition Prague, Czech Republic; 1st prize at the Rotary Music Competition, Germany
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since season 2020/21
Important parts:
Princess Eboli (Don Carlos), Carmen (Carmen), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Sesto & Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Cecilio (Lucio Silla), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Concepcion (L‘heure espagnole), Olga (Eugen Onegin), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Wellgunde (Das Rheingold), Veronica Quaife (The Fly), Mary Shelley (Uraufführung Diodati. Unendlich), Soprano 4 (Al gran sole carico d‘amore), Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), 2. Norn (Götterdämmerung), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Hamburg, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Semperoper Dresden, Theater Basel, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Oper Wuppertal, Stadttheater Trier, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Hans Neuenfels, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Yuval Sharon, David Bösch, Barbora Horáková Joly, Stephan Kimmig, Barbara Frey, Lydia Steier, Sebastian Baumgarten, Sam Brown, Vasily Barkhatov, Daniel Kramer, Katharina Thoma, David Hermann, Christian von Treskow, BARBE & DOUCET, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, Marco Armiliato, Marek Janowski, Ivor Bolton, Giampaolo Bisanti, Axel Kober, Ainars Rubikis, Jonathan Darlington, Erik Nielsen, Kristiina Poska, Joana Mallwitz, Titus Engel, Christopher Moulds, Gianluca Capuano, Jonathan Stockhammer, David Parry, Christian Curnyn, Michele Spotti, Alexander Joel, Matteo Beltrami, Thomas Guggeis, et al.
Find further information about Kristina Stanek here.
photo: Felix Grünschloß
Alfred
Seungwoo Simon Yang
Tenor
Birthplace:
Gwangyang, South Korea
Studies:
Singing at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Prof. Carolyn Grace James
Master class:
Bo Skovhus, Eytan Pessen, Lioba Braun, Brigitte Eisenfeld, Gregory Kunde, Chris Merritt, Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Kwangchul Youn, Olga Peretyatko, Ralph Strehle, Harald Stamm, et al.
Prizes:
1st Prize Elise Meyer Competition (2020), 1st Prize of the Mozart Singing Competition (2020), Special Prize and 2nd Prize of the Maritim Music Award (2019), 2nd Prize of the Maritim Music Award (2018), 1st Prize of the Korean Singing Competition (2015), 1st Prize of the Korea Talent Award (2015), 1st Prize of the Ehwa & Kyunghyang Competition (2014), 1st Prize Shin Young-Ok Voice Competition (2014), 1st Prize of the Shinhan Music Award (2014)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2023/24 season
Was Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2020/21 to 2023/24
Important parts:
Lord Arturo Bucklaw (Lucia di Lammermoor), Pong (Turandot), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Beppe (Pagliacci), Jaquino (Fidelio), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Pilade (Oreste), Nemorino (L'Elisir d'amore), Rodolfo (La Bohème), et al.
Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Zurich Opera, Salzburg Festival
Cooperation with directors:
Guy Montavon, Yona Kim, Sascha Alexander Todtner, Amélie Niermeyer
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Stefano Ranzani, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Daniele Callegari, Giampaolo Bisanti, Leonardo Sini, Matteo Beltrarmi, Paolo Arrivabini, Giacomo Sagripanti, et al.
photo: Johannes Xaver Zepplin
Dr. Falke
Daniel Schmutzhard
Baritone
Geburtsort:
Rum in Tirol, Österreich
Wichtige Partien:
Robert in Jolanthe (De Beer/Meir Wellber), Eisenstein (Fledermaus), Danilo (Lustige Witwe), Papageno (Zauberflöte), Corpo (Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo), Dunois (Tschaikowskis Jungfrau von Orleans), Scherasmin (Oberon), Olivier (Capriccio), Ottokar (Freischütz), Fritz Kothner (Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Alberich und Donner (Rheingold), u. a.
Bühnen:
Theater an der Wien, Volksoper Wien, Oper Frankfurt, Salzburger Osterfestspiele, Gewandhaus Leipzig, New National Theatre Tokyo, u. a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseur*innen:
Calixto Bieito, Robert Carsen, Jossi Wieler, William Kentridge, Marco Arturo Marelli, Vincent Boussard, Barrie Kosky, Alfred Kirchner, u. a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigent*innen:
Kirill Petrenko, Kent Nagano, Simon Rattle, Sebastian Weigle, Franz Welser-Möst, Leopold Hager, Ulf Schirmer, u. a.
photo: Fotoweinwurm
Dr. Blind
Peter Galliard
Tenor
Birthplace:
Chur, Switzerland
Studies:
With Rico Peterelli, Conservatory in Feldkirch with Maria Eibenschütz, at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Rudolf Knoll
Prizes:
First Prize at the International Mozart Competition (1985), Förderpreis of the Kanton Graubünden (1987), Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Preis of the Stiftung zur Förderung der Hamburgischen Staatsoper (1989), honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Kammersänger” (2017)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1986/87
Important parts:
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Jaquino (Fidelio), Cassio (Otello), Froh and Loge (Das Rheingold), Alfred and Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Peter Iwanow (Zar und Zimmermann), Bardolfo (Falstaff), Hauptmann (Wozzeck), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Lenski (Eugen Onegin), Narraboth (Salome), Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Prinz and Hauptmann (Lulu), L’Aumonier (Dialogues des Carmélites), Melot (Tristan und Isolde), Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), Wolfgang Capito (Mathis der Maler), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Red Whiskers (Billy Budd), Dämon (L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe), Bischof von Budoja (Palestrina), Mime (Siegfried), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Lucerne Festival, Salzburger Osterfestspiele, Opéra National de Paris, Enescu Festival in Bukarest, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Nürnberg, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Claus Guth, August Everding, Johannes Schaaf, Harry Kupfer, Peter Konwitschny, Johannes Erath, Renaud Doucet, Georg Schmiedleitner, Stefan Herheim, Herbert Wernicke, Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker, Paul-Georg Dittrich, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Thielemann, Ingo Metzmacher, Simone Young, Kirill Petrenko, Kent Nagano, Lawrence Foster, Gerrit Prießnitz, Marcus Bosch, Philippe Jordan, Paolo Carignani, Vaclav Luks, et al.
photo: Martina Cyman
Adele
Katrina Galka
Soprano
Birthplace:
Milwaukke, Wisconsin, USA
Prizes:
Second-prize winner in the Lotte Lenya Competition of the Kurt Weill Foundation (2022), Three-time regional award winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, first place Mario Lanza Scholarship, et al.
Important parts:
Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Fritzi (Die Weiden), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Controller (Flight), Cunegonde (Candide), Gilda (Rigoletto), Blondchen (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Aithra (Die ägyptische Helena), Serpetta (La finta giardinierna), Johanna (Sweeney Todd), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Woglinde (Das Rheingold), Marie (La fille du régiment), et al.
Stages:
Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Bayerische Staatsoper, San Francisco Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Glimmerglass Festival, Arizona Opera, Minnesota Opera, New Orleans Opera, Portland Opera, Opera San Jose, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Andreas Homoki, Tazewell Thompson, Andrea Moses, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Antonio Fogliani, Nicole Paiement, Ingo Metzmacher, et al.
Find further information about Katrina Galka here.
photo: Brian Parillo
Ida
Gabriele Rossmanith
Soprano
Birthplace:
Stuttgart, Germany
Studies:
Violin studies at the Musikhochschule Trossingen, vocal studies with Sylvia Geszty at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart; Ks. Brigitte Eisenfeld (Studium)
Prizes:
1st Prize Mozartfestwettbewerb (1985), honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” (2011)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera from 1988 to 2022 and Artistic Director of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since season 2020/21
Important parts:
Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Micaëla (Carmen), Morgana (Alcina), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Musetta (La Bohème), Sophie/Marianne Leitmetzerin (Der Rosenkavalier), Woglinde/Wellgunde (Das Rheingold), Ortlinde (Die Walküre), Hanna Glawari (Die lustige Witwe), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Fortuna/Giunone (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), Vierte Magd (Elektra), szenischer Liederabend (Schumann und Schönberg), et al.
Stages:
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (1985-88), guest engagements in Munich, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Glyndebourne Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Willy Decker, Christof Loy, Guy Joosten, Harry Kupfer, Bob Wilson, Marco Arturo Marelli, Peter Konwitschny, Renaud Doucet, Achim Freyer, Calixto Bieito, John Dew, Vera Nemirova, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Horst Stein, Christian Thielemann, Donald Runnicles, Michel Plasson, Sir Antonio Pappano, Robin Ticciatti, Silvio Varviso, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ivor Bolton, Kirill Petrenko, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher, Simone Young, Kent Nagano, et al.
Find further information about Gabriele Rossmanith here.
photo: Jörn Kipping
Frosch
Gustav Peter Wöhler
Actor
Birthplace:
Bielefeld, Germany
Studies:
Westphalian Drama School Bochum
Prizes:
2013 German Audiobook Award Best Performer for Many Thanks for Life
Stages:
Munich Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Schloßparktheater Berlin, Kiel Opera, Salzburg Festival, Nibelungen Festival Worms, St. Pauli Theater, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg State Opera, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Peter Zadek, Doris Dörrie, Fatih Akin, Werner Herzog, Jessica Hausner, et al.
Find further information about Gustav Peter Wöhler here.
Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Orchestra
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
photo: Foto: Felix Broede
