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Celebrate the season’s end with Gustavo Dudamel and the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Waldbühne. A programme bursting with summer energy and passion will take you on a journey across North and South America. Composers from Mexico, Venezuela and Puerto Rico bring irresistible dance energy, while others revive invoke North American folk music. Finally, Leonard Bernstein juxtaposes both worlds in dances from his legendary West Side Story.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Ryan Speedo Green bass-baritone
Programme
Gabriela Ortiz
Kauyumari
Arturo Márquez
Danzón No. 8 “Homenaje a Maurice”
Aaron Copland
Old American Songs, First Set (arr. for voice and orchestra)
Aaron Copland, Ryan Speedo Green bass-baritone
Evencio Castellanos
Santa Cruz de Pacairigua
Interval
Roberto Sierra
Alegría
Duke Ellington
Three black kings: Martin Luther King
Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
Additional information
These are the admission regulations for the venue:
Allowed are food and drinks for own use (per person 1 drink in 0,5L reusable PET bottle), please pack brought food transparent (e.g. in a flight bag), picnic bag up to a size of 40cm x 40cm x 35cm, small handbag, fanny pack, jute bag up to max. DIN A4 (21 x 29,7cm), wooden or plastic cutlery, small umbrellas, blankets (Attention! There are no seats inside the auditorium, so we recommend that you bring a blanket)
Unfortunately, safety regulations do not allow beverage and food containers made of glass and / or aluminium. For the sake of the environment, please avoid disposable plastic tableware and cutlery and use environmentally friendly alternatives made of paper or wood and reusable PET bottles instead.
Please leave at home stick umbrellas, bulky, dangerous items, glass in any form, drink cans, picnic bags, larger than 40cm x 40cm x 35 mm backpacks and bags larger than DIN A4.
Please inform yourself about the current rules for this date in advance of your visit to the event at www.concert-concept.de. These will be adapted to the currently valid regulations in each case.
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Ticket sales through the Concept Veranstaltungs-GmbH
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Ticket sales through the Concept Veranstaltungs-GmbH
The sound of America
A musical journey across the continent in seven stops
From sacred deer to the bright lights of Broadway – the journey that conductor Gustavo Dudamel invites us to take at the Waldbühne concerts promises a rich musical adventure. Join us on this musical tour through the Americas.
Biography
Gustavo Dudamel
“The evening might go down as the most electrifying debut in the orchestra’s history,” wrote the Tagesspiegel after Gustavo Dudamel's 2008 Waldbühne concert. At the time just 27 years old, the conductor – an alumnus of Venezuela’s music education programme El Sistema and winner of the International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition – had embarked on a meteoric career that would take him to the world’s leading orchestras and opera houses. Since 2009, he has served as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and will take up the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from the 2026/27 season.
Gustavo Dudamel has also led the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela since the age of 18. He shares a deep artistic friendship with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Each season, he brings his vibrant style of music-making to the orchestra in highly-accalaimed guest appearances, often featuring the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. The orchestra has repeatedly invited him to headline high-profile events: the New Year’s Eve Concert in 2010, the 2012 Europakonzert in Vienna, and the major Asia tour in 2018. A recurring highlight of their collaboration is the Waldbühne: following his debut in 2008, further concerts there took place in 2014 and 2017 – and once again this season, Gustavo Dudamel will join the Berliner Philharmoniker to close the season under the open sky.
Directions to the Waldbühne
How to get to the Waldbühne by public transport
Ticket information
Tickets for the end-of-season concert are sold by Concert Concept Veranstaltungs-GmbH. Further information can be found on the Waldbühne website.
Admission regulations
Food and drinks, umbrellas, bags? You can find the admission regulations further up under our service information.