A Royal Gala Evening! A blend of operatic arias, duets and popular songs. This glittering event has been staged in aid of The José Carreras International Leukaemia Fund by Alan Sievewright, who also acts as presenter on stage. All proceeds from the…

Under the motto "Rhythm and Dance" Kent Nagano created one of the most exciting programmes the Berliner Philharmoniker ever played at the Waldbühne with his combination of popular and rather unusual music from the 20th Century. Nagano injected so…

Guiseppe Verdi: Overture from Nabucco, Duet "Et lui..." from Don Carlos Fire Chorus, Jago's Credo, "Gia nella notte...." from Otello, Triumphal March from Aida; Vincenzo Bellini: "Eccomi..." from I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Sir Peter Ustinov comments in his own inimitable fashion on the life and works of the great composer. Recipient of the New York TV- and Filmfestival First Prize and National Educational Award, USA.

The Great Mass is the spiritual keystone of a choreographic undertaking in which Uwe Scholz absorbs the structure of the liturgy of the mass. He adds to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Great Mass in C minor other works by the same composer, such…

Hector Berlioz: Overture from "Le carneval romain"; Georges Bizet: Carmen suite; Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto pour la main gauche; Claude Debussy: Prèlude á l'aprés midi d'un faune; Maurice Ravel: Bolèro

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Overture Op. 36 "Russian Easter" Peter Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite, Overture 1812, Elegy from the Serenade for Strings Alexander Borodin Polovtsian Dance No. 17 Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Aram Chatschaturjan Sabre Dance…

Leonard Bernstein: Overture from "Candide" Prelude, Fuge and Riffs; George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Excerpts from "Porgy and Bess"

Performed in a different European city each year, the incomparable Berlin Philharmonic's annual Europa Konzert commemorates the orchestra's foundation in 1882 while celebrating the cultural life of the EU. From the historic Hieronymus Monastery in…

In the face of political and ideological divides between their respective countries, five years ago Daniel Barenboim, an Argentinean Jew and Israel's most famous conductor and pianist, along with Christian Palestinian philosopher Edward Said, put…