Concerts / Conciertos

Mit Richard Wagners Siegfried setzte das Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal am 22. Februar in der Historischen Stadthalle seinen halb konzertanten Ringzyklus fort. Unter der Leitung von Patrick Hahn zeigte sich erneut die solide musikalische Basis dieser Reihe. Die Aufführung wirkte klar strukturiert, klanglich ausgewogen und insgesamt auf musikalische Präzision ausgerichtet. Fabio Rickenmann ergänzte das Konzert mit einer durchdachten szenischen Einrichtung, die durch gezielte Aufs

Die halbkonzertante Aufführung von Richard Wagners Die Walküre in der Historischen Stadthalle Wuppertal stand in einem besonderen Kontext. Patrick Hahn verabschiedet sich als Generalmusikdirektor von der Stadt und hat sich zum Abschluss vorgenommen, den gesamten Ring des Nibelungen aufzuführen. Nach dem Rheingold markierte dieser Abend den zweiten Teil des Zyklus, während Siegfried und Götterdämmerung noch folgen werden. Fabio Rickmann prägte den Abend dramaturgisch mit einer

Yesterday, February 6, 2026, Philippe Herreweghe returned to the Palau de la Música Catalana with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and their performance of Beethoven's symphonies. The Parisian ensemble that Herreweghe conducts plays with period instruments, and their sound is so extraordinary that even Beethoven himself, seemingly frozen in the Palau de la Música, listened with rapt attention. First, they performed Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36. Herreweghe's conducting is

Der Ring ohne Worte, Richard Wagner/Lorin Maazel 02.02.2026 Auditori Cicle Ibercamera Theodor Currentzis Musica Aeterna This isn't the Ring Without Words ; it's the Ring that leaves you speechless. Since the start of the tour at the Berlin Philharmonie, Currentzis and his Musicaeterna orchestra's interpretation of the Ring ohne Worte has improved. They are an ensemble that conveys emotions, making this Ring go straight to your veins, making you vibrate and even weep. The powe

Marina Viotti Recital Eglise San Nicholas de Rougemont, Gstaad 1.1.2026 En 2005, la princesa Caroline Murat fundó el festival Gstaad New Year Music Festival en la pintoresca localidad de Gstaad, en el cantón suizo de Berna. Durante años, colaboró estrechamente con Martin Engstroem en el Festival de Verbier, cofundó la Academia de Verbier y, en 2001, los Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad. Hoy, el festival goza del alto patrocinio de S.A.S. el príncipe Alberto II de Mónaco y, a lo lar

Weihnachtsoratorium , J.S.Ba ch Palau del Música Catalana, Barcelona 19.12.2025 Alison Lau, soprano | Martina Baroni, alto | David Fischer, tenor | Micha Matthäus, bass-baritone | Il Gardellino Orchestra | Cor de Cambra de l'Orfeó Català | Christoph Prégardien, conductor This past Friday, we experienced an evening of exceptional musical quality at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. Il Gardellino, with the Cor de Cambra del Orfeó Català and Christoph Prégardien at t

14.12.2025 Palau de la Música Catalana Franz Schubert Filharmonia Rune Bergmann, conductor Anna Fedorova, piano Last Sunday, the Palau de la Música was overcome with emotion by Anna Fedorova's performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. Every chord, every note, every orchestral flourish... sent a shiver through our bodies, bringing tears to our eyes. Fedorova's touch is exquisitely delicate; her ivory hands seem to barely touch the keys, yet with immense gentleness sh

La Rondine, Giacomo Puccini Barbican Hall, London 9.12.2025 Something extraordinary happened at the Barbican Hall when the BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Carlo Rizzi, performed a concert version of the final variant that Giacomo Puccini's made of La Rondine with a spectacular cast. La Rondine is a masterpiece where we see Puccini experimenting and growing, as the chromatic schemes and orchestral structures that would later appear in his great final works develop within him.

El retorn d’una veu pianística al seu espai natural Hi ha intèrprets que, quan pugen a un escenari determinat, activem en nosaltres una mena de memòria col·lectiva: sabem que aquell lloc, aquella acústica i aquell artista formen un tot indissoluble. Alba Ventura i el Palau de la Música Catalana constitueixen un d’aquests binomis rars i fèrtils. La pianista barcelonina ha crescut musicalment i vitalment entre aquestes pedres modernistes, hi ha viscut molts dels seus primers èx

El pasado 17 de noviembre en el Auditorio de Barcelona, dentro de la 42 temporada de Ibercamera, la Orquesta Mozarteum Salzburg con Trevor Pinnock en la dirección y Julia Hagen como solista, nos ofrecieron un programa integrado por la Obertura “La Flauta Mágica” de Mozart, el Concierto para violoncelo en si menor Op 104 de A. Dvořák y la Sinfonía nº 5 en do menor de Beethoven. El concierto podemos decir que se inició tímidamente para ir creciendo en intensidad, la Obertura de

On November 13, 2025, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, led by its principal conductor Simone Young, presented a concert version of Richard Wagner's Siegfried to the Sydney audience. The Australian conductor, after establishing herself in Bayreuth and at La Scala as one of the leading contemporary Wagner interpreters, decided to bring a cast worthy of Bayreuth to the Sydney Opera House's Concert Hall. Young conducts with passion, composure, and supreme energy, giving her Wagner

Today, November 13, 2025, the Palau de la Música Catalana paid a profound tribute to one of the greatest baritones of all time: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. His most worthy heir, Benjamin Appl, wove together an extraordinary program of carefully chosen pieces to illustrate the life of the great singer and multifaceted artist, as Appl himself demonstrated. Appl was accompanied by the South African-born pianist, James Baillieu. Bailieu is not a pianist, he is God. His hands don't

The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra arrived in Barcelona in full force, accompanied by Myung-Whun Chung, the newly appointed principal conductor of the La Scala Orchestra in Milan, and the extraordinary violinist Maxim Vengerov. They performed two fundamental monuments of Russian musical literature: Tchaikovsky's exquisitely romantic Violin Concerto and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, the piece that forever shattered the traditional conventions of harmony and symphonic music. T

Ayer el Palau de la Música Catalana tuvo el placer de presenciar un concierto de Martha Argerich, leyenda viva del piano, y su amigo Nelson Goerner, otro genio de las teclas. Todo empezó perfecto hasta que las autoridades catalanas decidieron avisar por notificación de emergencias en el momento que Argerich y Goerner tocaban La Valse de Ravel. Argerich, muy enfadada y nerviosa, paró el concierto y no entendía nada, porque cada vez sonaban más móviles y más fuerte. Ella que vi

The Ring ohne Worte , a creation by Lorin Maazel, arrived at the Berliner Philharmonie today, by the hand of Theodor Currentzis and his Utopia Orchestra. Wagner without words does not exist, because his music was born from words, and in the case of the Ring, the words began to take shape many years before the music, already in his youth in Dresden. But I believe that today, Wagner himself would have taken a train from Bayreuth to hear Currentzis's interpretation and his extra

Sir Bryan Terfel can still do it all. Yesterday his voice resonated once again in Monaco, embodying a magnificent and awe-inspiring Flying Dutchman. The Monte-Carlo Opera had the privilege yesterday of witnessing Richard Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer in a semi-staged version with extraordinary projections by Stefano Visconti. Senta was sung by Asmik Grigorian, who delivered an marvellous and highly dramatic Ballad of Senta. The legendary Albert Dohmen was Daland, and his W

Last Thursday, October 30th, Roberto Alagna, a living legend of opera, landed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, courtesy of Puccini. He gifted a completely devoted Barcelona audience with a recital dedicated entirely to the composer from Lucca. Me -Roberto- and Puccini: something very intimate and familiar, as he himself described the recital, speaking directly to the audience at the beginning, and continuing in this way throughout the evening, engaging in a continuous and very c

This Monday, October 27, the great Royal Philharmonic Orchestra arrived at the Palau de la Música Catalana with Vasily Petrenko as conductor. Petrenko knows how to extract a precise, methodical and poignant sound from any formation, but with the talent present in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, everything takes on an epic aspect. So much so that Albert Guinovart himself could hardly believe the sound that the RPO was able to extract from his "La Vida Secreta" Sonata. This i

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony is a monument to nature, an absolutely romantic analysis of all the elements that move the nature that surrounds us. Caspar David Friedrich did it with painting, Hölderlin did it with poetry and Beethoven did it with a very delicate orchestration and the construction of a symphony that is one of the most beautiful ever written. To the point that Wagner himself, in a way, pays homage to it in Siegfried's Rheinfahrt. Today the genius maestro Philippe

Georg Friedrich Händel was resurrected today and left Westminster Abbey to hear personally his new Oratorio in Barcelona: Theodor Currentzi's Oratorio. And Händel would have signed it, because Baroque and Händel are also freedom, much to the chagrin of today's Taliban of Baroque. In the history of musical performance, there is a moment that changed everything, with no back way: the birth of Theodor Currentzis and the subsequent creation of his soulmate, MusicAeterna. If we li