
Travel has been part of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s DNA from the very beginning. Just a few days after the orchestra had formed in 1882, the musicians set off on their first tour. To this day, concert tours are an important aspect of the orchestra’s life.
Fixed points in the tour calendar at the beginning of each concert season include guest appearances at the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival and one other venue. In addition, there is a major November tour, which usually takes the orchestra overseas, and the Europakonzert, which takes place every year on 1 May at a culturally significant venue and is followed by further concerts in the host country. The benefits and appeal of the tours are many. For example, the continuous work on the tour programme is an opportunity for the Berliner Philharmoniker and its chief conductors to work together in a particularly concentrated manner. No less important for the musicians is the encounter with their global audience.
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01 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Clay Hilley tenor
Elza van den Heever soprano
Michaela Schuster mezzo-soprano
Wolfgang Koch bass
Miina-Liisa Värelä soprano
NFM Choir Wroclaw choir
Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), opera in three acts op. 65
02 Apr 2023,
15:30
Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Weinbrennersaal
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Philharmonisches Streichquartett
Dorian Xhoxhi violin
Helena Madoka Berg violin
Naoko Shimizu viola
Christoph Heesch cello
Works by Erwin Schulhoff, Béla Bartók and Erich Wolfgang Korngold
02 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding conductor
Works by Arnold Schoenberg and Gustav Mahler
03 Apr 2023,
15:30
Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Weinbrennersaal
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Scharoun Ensemble Berlin
Rachel Schmidt violin
Christophe Horák violin
Micha Afkham viola
Claudio Bohórquez cello
Peter Riegelbauer double bass
Alexander Bader clarinet
Markus Weidmann bassoon
Stefan de Leval Jezierski french horn
Works by Max Reger and Egon Wellesz
03 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding conductor
Works by Arnold Schoenberg and Gustav Mahler
04 Apr 2023,
16:00
Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Runder Saal
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Johanna Pichlmair violin
Angelo de Leo violin
Tobias Reifland viola
Uladzimir Sinkevich cello
Works by Hanns Eisler, Alexander Zemlinsky and Richard Strauss
Easter Festival
01 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Clay Hilley tenor
Elza van den Heever soprano
Michaela Schuster mezzo-soprano
Wolfgang Koch bass
Miina-Liisa Värelä soprano
NFM Choir Wroclaw choir
Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), opera in three acts op. 65
02 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding conductor
Works by Arnold Schoenberg and Gustav Mahler
03 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Harding conductor
Works by Arnold Schoenberg and Gustav Mahler
05 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Clay Hilley tenor
Elza van den Heever soprano
Michaela Schuster mezzo-soprano
Wolfgang Koch bass
Miina-Liisa Värelä soprano
NFM Choir Wroclaw choir
Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), opera in three acts op. 65
07 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Diana Damrau soprano
Works by Richard Strauss
08 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Emmanuelle Haïm conductor
George Frideric Handel Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a
09 Apr 2023,
18:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Clay Hilley tenor
Elza van den Heever soprano
Michaela Schuster mezzo-soprano
Wolfgang Koch bass
Miina-Liisa Värelä soprano
NFM Choir Wroclaw choir
Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), opera in three acts op. 65
10 Apr 2023,
16:00
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Tour
Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Diana Damrau soprano
Works by Richard Strauss
Spain tour
01 May 2023,
11:00
La Sagrada Família, Barcelona
Tour
Europakonzert
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Louise Alder soprano
Orfeó Català choir
Wiebke Lehmkuhl contralto
Mauro Peter tenor
Krešimir Stražanac bass-baritone
Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
02 May 2023,
20:00
Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona
Tour
Spain tour
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Louise Alder soprano
Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Robert Schumann
03 May 2023,
19:30
(Local time)
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid
Tour
Spain tour
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Louise Alder soprano
Wiebke Lehmkuhl contralto
Mauro Peter tenor
Krešimir Stražanac bass-baritone
Orfeó Català choir
Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
04 May 2023,
19:30
(Local time)
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid
Tour
Spain tour
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Louise Alder soprano
Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Robert Schumann