Berliner Philharmonie tickets 16 September 2025 - Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Antonello Manacorda, Okka von der Damerau and David Butt Philip | GoComGo.com

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Antonello Manacorda, Okka von der Damerau and David Butt Philip

Berliner Philharmonie, Main Auditorium, Berlin, Germany
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 20:00

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

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If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Mezzo-Soprano: Okka von der Damerau
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Creators
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Composer: Toshio Hosokawa
Programme
Toshio Hosokawa: Blossoming II
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Overview

The Italian conductor Antonello Manacorda and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin perform one of the compositional highlights in the history of Late Romantic orchestral lieder: Gustav Mahler’s “Lied von der Erde”.

The emotionally unsettling six lieder with orchestra are preceded by the meditative and sensuous orchestral work “Blossoming II” by the Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa. The composer took his inspiration from a lotus flower with its roots in the earth and its blossom on the surface of a lake in 2011. He savours the growth of the orchestral sound which subsequently comes to full bloom in Mahler’s Late Romantic tonal painting.

“My ideal music is like the sounds of nature” says Toshio Hosokawa for whom “water, the sea and clouds” provide a central source of inspiration – alongside flowers which are “deeply rooted in Japanese aesthetics and spiritual life”. In “Blossoming II”, Hosokawa aimed to capture the enigma of the lotus flower in music: “Its roots absorb nourishment from the depths of swamps, the stems break new paths through the water to collect sunlight and subsequently produce perfect jewels of flowers. Without the chaos of the muddy depths, the blossoms would never be able to raise their faces to the sky.”

Gustav Mahler’s “Lied von der Erde” is an exceptional composition focused on the transience of human existence based on Hans Bethge’s “Chinesische Flöte”, described by Alma Mahler as “excessively sad poetry”. This collection contained free adaptations of Chinese lyrical poems from the 8th century which according to the author Bethge expressed the “ineffable beauty of the world” and “the eternal sorrow of all that comes into being” in verse. At the end of Mahler’s compositional farewell to life, an “endless melody” underpinned by constantly shifting harmonies climaxes in a state of passionate ecstasy as a musical symbol of the eternal cycle of life and death.

Venue Info

Berliner Philharmonie - Berlin
Location   Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1

The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The building forms part of the Kulturforum complex of cultural institutions close to Potsdamer Platz.

The Philharmonie consists of two venues, the Grand Hall (Großer Saal) with 2,440 seats and the Chamber Music Hall (Kammermusiksaal) with 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller hall was opened in the 1980s, some twenty years after the main building.

Hans Scharoun designed the building, which was constructed over the years 1960–1963. It opened on 15 October 1963 with Herbert von Karajan conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony. It was built to replace the old Philharmonie, destroyed by British bombers on 30 January 1944, the eleventh anniversary of Hitler becoming Chancellor. The hall is a singular building, asymmetrical and tentlike, with the main concert hall in the shape of a pentagon. The height of the rows of seats increases irregularly with distance from the stage. The stage is at the centre of the hall, surrounded by seating on all sides. The so-called vineyard-style seating arrangement (with terraces rising around a central orchestral platform) was pioneered by this building, and became a model for other concert halls, including the Sydney Opera House (1973), Denver's Boettcher Concert Hall (1978), the Gewandhaus in Leipzig (1981), Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), and the Philharmonie de Paris (2014).

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet recorded three live performances at the hall; Dave Brubeck in Berlin (1964), Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970), and We're All Together Again for the First Time (1973). Miles Davis's 1969 live performance at the hall has also been released on DVD.

On 20 May 2008 a fire broke out at the hall. A quarter of the roof suffered considerable damage as firefighters cut openings to reach the flames beneath the roof. The hall interior sustained water damage but was otherwise "generally unharmed". Firefighters limited damage using foam. The cause of the fire was attributed to welding work, and no serious damage was caused either to the structure or interior of the building. Performances resumed, as scheduled, on 1 June 2008 with a concert by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.

The main organ was built by Karl Schuke, Berlin, in 1965, and renovated in 1992, 2012 and 2016. It has four manuals and 91 stops. The pipes of the choir organs and the Tuba 16' and Tuba 8' stops are not assigned to any group and can be played from all four manuals and the pedals.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 20:00
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