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In February 2026, Arnold Schoenberg’s highly demanding “Gurrelieder” with Sir Donald Runnicles at the Philharmonie, Franz Schreker’s DER SCHATZGRÄBER, and Detlev Glanert’s DIE DREI RÄTSEL will return to the program of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
On 10. February Arnold Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder,” one of the absolute pinnacles of choral-symphonic literature, which is rarely performed due to its immense demands, will be presented. In addition to the Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin Radio Choir will participate, along with soloists AJ Glueckert, Felicia Moore, Annika Schlicht, Thomas Blondelle, Thomas Lehman, and narrator Thomas Quasthoff. Sir Donald Runnicles will conduct, and Jeremy Bines has prepared the choirs.
The concert will take place on February 10th at 8 pm in the Philharmonie.
It began as a song cycle for two voices and piano accompaniment and became a mammoth choral-symphonic work: Arnold Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder,” based on poems by the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen, tell the story of the love between Tove and King Waldemar. In the “Gurrelieder,” Schoenberg, following in the footsteps of Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss, combines all the musical influences of late Romanticism into an almost two-hour monumental work that …
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Image above: DIE DREI RÄTSEL © Nancy Jesse. Courtesy of Deutsche Oper Berlin
