Musikfest Berlin 2023
We will check for seats that still can be taken
We will check for seats that still can be taken
We will check for seats that still can be taken
Musikfest Berlin 2023
The 2023 Musikfest Berlin will take place from 26 August to 19 September, hosted by Berliner Festspiele in cooperation with the Foundation Berliner Philharmoniker. Once again, this international orchestra festival will launch Berlin’s concert season with guest orchestras, ensembles and soloists from around the world as well as Berlin’s own major orchestras. Guests will include the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, who will open the festival, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent and Münchner Philharmoniker.
Tickets for five highlights selected from the programme are already on sale.
If you are interested in a full schedule leave a request. As soon as the playbill is announced, we will let you know immediately, and you will be the first to get the tickets.
In each section, you will get the best seats for the same price - centrally located and in front rows.
We provide seats with the best acoustics only.
Even in the world's best concert halls and opera houses, the listening conditions can vary greatly, and some seats are better than others. Sometimes nearby seats have very different viewing and listening conditions.
Usually, these seats are sold out soon and available for early bookers only. We guarantee that you will receive full-view seats only.
The upcoming 19th edition of Musikfest Berlin will be opened by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the conduction of their honorary guest conductor Iván Fischer and will present orchestral songs by Jörg Widmann with soloist Michael Nagy and Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony on 26 August at the Philharmonie’s Main Hall.
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony will be performed by the London Symphony Orchestra on 28 August. The LSO will once more be conducted by Sir Simon Rattle before he will move on to his new position as Chief Conductor at Bayerisches Symphonieorchester at the beginning of the new season.
On 5 September, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons will travel to Berlin from the US. Their programme will feature American music by George Gershwin and the Los Angeles-based composer Julia Adolphe as well as Igor Stravinsky’s ballet music “Petrushka”.
Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony will be performed by the Latvian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Münchner Philharmoniker and Philharmonischer Chor München on 12 September. The featured soloists will be American star soprano Talise Trevigne and mezzo-soprano Okka von der Damerau from Hamburg.
On 13 September, Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent will present Johann Sebastian Bach’s opus magnum, the Mass in B minor. They will be joined by soloists Dorothee Mields, Margot Oitzinger, Alex Potter, Guy Cutting and Peter Kooij.
The programmes of these five concerts have been published and ticket sales have begun.
About the Musikfest Berlin
Musikfest Berlin sees itself as a forum for the innovative creative work carried out by large-scale orchestras and ensembles in the genre of classical and modern music. It presents an ambitious festival programme with alternating focal points.
The Berlin concert season is ushered in spectacularly in late summer by the Berliner Festspiele’s orchestra festival – run jointly with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation. Top international orchestras, instrumental and choral ensembles and the great symphony orchestras of the city of Berlin together present an ambitious festival programme with a new thematic focus each year.
Alongside opera, theatre and cinema, the orchestra is one of the most complex, magnificent and varied “machines” that Western culture has developed to represent and create ideas and emotions. Today, the variety of different forms of orchestra is greater than ever, due to modern technologies and our intimate knowledge of historical practices of performance.
This three-week festival is therefore not only devoted to the symphonic repertoire, but also especially to significant but seldom heard, forgotten or unusual works from the past, and equally interesting new works. The Musikfest Berlin sees itself as a forum for innovative artistic work by the great orchestras and ensembles on the international music scene.
