With its nearly 450-year Tradition, the Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Founded by elector Joachim II of Brandenburg as Hofkapelle and first documented in 1570, the Ensemble was primarily obliged to serve as Hofdienst, but gradually expanded its activities. With the establishment of the Opera House Unter den Linden in 1742 by King Frederick II of Prussia, the orchestra found a central place of activity, with which it has since been firmly connected. Important musical personalities led the Opera business as well as the orchestra's regular concert series since 1842: outstanding conductors such as Gaspare Spontini, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Otto Nikolai, Felix von Weingartner, Richard Strauss, Erich Kleiber, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan, Franz Konwitschny and Otmar Suitner shaped the instrumental and interpretative culture of the former Royal Prussian hofkapelle and today's Staatskapelle Berlin. Since 1992, Daniel Barenboim has been the general music director at the head of the traditional ensemble, and in 2000 he was elected by the orchestra as a "conductor for life". Numerous guest performances in Europe, Israel, Japan and China have repeatedly demonstrated the outstanding position of the ensemble. The performance of all Beethoven's symphonies and piano concertos in Vienna, Paris, London, New York and Tokyo as well as the cycles of the Schumann and Brahms symphonies, the presentation of all the major stage works by Richard Wagner on the occasion of the 2002 Staatsoper festival and the three-time performance of Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen" in Japan were among At the 2007 festival, under the direction of Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez, a ten-part Mahler cycle took place in the Berlin Philharmonie, which also performed at the Vienna Musikverein as well as at the New York Carnegie Hall. Among the highlights of recent years were a nine-part Bruckner cycle (Vienna in June 2012, 2016 and 2017 at Suntory Hall Tokyo, Carnegie Hall New York and the Philharmonie de Paris), concert performances of Wagner's " Ring des Nibelungen "at the London Proms 2013 and the Barhms cycle and" Tristan and Isolde " in July 2018 in Buenos Aires. Numerous CD and DVD productions, both in the field of opera and symphonic music, document the high artistic quality of the Staatskapelle Berlin. In addition to recordings of the three romantic operas of Wagner, of Beethoven's Fidelio, Strauss' Elektra and Berg's "Wozzeck" in published recordings of all the symphonies of Beethoven, Schumann, and Bruckner under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, in addition, recordings of the piano concertos of chopin, Liszt and Brahms, as well as great symphonic works of Strauss and Elgar. On DVD is the Staatskapelle Berlin with recordings of Beethoven's piano concertos, Bruckner's symphonies Nr. 4 to 9, Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and "Parsifal", Verdi's "Il trovatore", Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tsar's bride" and Berg's "Lulu" represented.

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