Berliner Philharmoniker LIVE: New Year’s Eve 2023

Kirill Petrenko: conductor
Vida Miknevičiūtė: soprano
Jonas Kaufmann: tenor
Georg Zeppenfeld: bass

Siegmund in Richard Wagner’s Walküre is a signature role for Jonas Kaufmann. The world-renowned tenor is passionate, radiant and combative in his portrayal of the tragic hero at the centre of a love triangle that confronts us with the emotional extremes of revenge, incest and lover’s bliss.

To celebrate the end of the year, chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, an acclaimed interpreter of Wagner, conducts the first act of the opera at the Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert, broadcast live to cinemas.

The programme opens with excerpts from Tannhäuser that encapsulatesthe grandeur of Wagner’s great work.

Programme:

Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg:
Overture and Der Venusberg
(Vienna version)

Richard Wagner
Die Walküre: Act 1