Christian Thielemann Season 2025/26

In his second season as General music director, Christian Thielemann will take on the musical direction of key performances in the 2025/26 programme at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin, the GMD will open the new season's opera programme with two cycles of Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. He will also conduct Wozzeck. Alban Berg's opera will return to the stage of the Staatsoper exactly 100 years after its premiere, starting on 14 December 2025, in Andrea Breth's 2011 production. During the 2026 festive season, Christian Thielmann will conduct Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier as well as the Konzert zum Karfreitag with Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, followed by the revival of Die schweigsame Frau in May 2026.

The rest of the concert programme for the new season also bears the hallmark of the General Music Director. In addition to three symphony concerts with the Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann will also conduct the New Year's concert, the special concert ‘Music from Distant Radio Days’ and, for the third time in a row, the open-air concert at ‘Staatsoper für alle’ on 24 May 2026 at Bebelplatz. The programme will feature music by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Strauss, Lehár and others.

 Opera


Der Ring des Nibelungen

Richard Wagner


Musical Director: Christian Thielemann
Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov

With: Anja Kampe, Andreas Schager, Michael Volle,
Claudia Mahnke


Cycle I from 27 September 2025
Cycle II from 5 October 2025


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Wozzeck

Alban Berg


Musical Director: Christian Thielemann
Director: Andrea Breth

With: Simon Keenlyside, Anja Kampe, Andreas Schager,
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke u. a.


from 14 December 2025
100 Years Wozzeck


Dates & Tickets


Der Rosenkavalier

Richard Strauss


Musical Director: Christian Thielemann
Director: André Heller

With: Julia Kleiter, Peter Rose, Patricia Nolz
Roman Trekel u. a.


from 28 March 2026
Festtage 2026


Dates & Tickets


Die Schweigsame Frau

Richard Strauss


Musical Director: Christian Thielemann
Director: Jan Philipp Gloger

With: Peter Rose, Evelyn Herlitzius, 
Serena Sáenz u. a.


From 9 May 2026
 

Dates & Tickets

 Concert


Symphoniekonzert IV


Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem op. 45


Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Sopran: Nikola Hillebrand
Bariton: Samuel Hasselhorn
Staatsopernchor


26   27 January 2026


Dates & Tickets


Symphoniekonzert VI


Richard Strauss: Orchesterlieder
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 6 F-Dur op. 68 Pastorale


Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Sopran: Julia Kleiter
Bariton: Konstantin Krimmel


13   14 April 2026


Dates & Tickets


Symphoniekonzert VII


Hans Pfitzner: Klavierkonzert Es-Dur op. 31
Franz Liszt: Symphonische Dichtungen
Prometheus S 99
Orpheus S 98
Les Préludes S 97


Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Piano: Igor Levit


18.   19. Mai 2026


Dates & Tickets


Konzert zum Jahreswechsel


With: Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Berlin


31 December 2025 & 1 January 2026


Dates & Tickets


Special concert „Musik aus fernen Rundfunktagen“


With: Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Berlin


14 & 15 February 2026


Dates & Tickets

October

December

January 2027

Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Family Performance

Sym­pho­nie­kon­zert IV

Christian Thielemann, María Dueñas
Duration: approx. 2 hrs including one interval

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt op. 27

Concert for Violin and string orchestra d-Moll

Ouverture to Ein Sommernachtstraum op. 21

Symphony No. 5 d-Moll op. 107 Reformations-Symphonie

Tickets
  • Login StaatsopernCard / Fest-Abonnement
Philharmonie Berlin - Großer Saal
  • Family Performance

Sym­pho­nie­kon­zert IV

Christian Thielemann, María Dueñas
Duration: approx. 2 hrs including one interval

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt op. 27

Concert for Violin and string orchestra d-Moll

Ouverture to Ein Sommernachtstraum op. 21

Symphony No. 5 d-Moll op. 107 Reformations-Symphonie

Tickets
  • Login StaatsopernCard / Fest-Abonnement

February 2027

March 2027

Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Festtage 2027

Festtage-Konzert Staatskapelle Berlin

Christian Thielemann, Julia Kleiter, Patricia Nolz, Klaus Florian Vogt, René Pape
Duration: approx. 1:15 hrs without an interval

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonie No. 9 d-Moll op. 125

Available as part of a Festtage-package

April 2027

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Sym­pho­nie­kon­zert VI

Christian Thielemann, Camilla Nylund, Piotr Beczała
Duration: approx. 2 hrs including one interval

Franz Liszt

Festklänge (Symphonic poem No. 7)

Richard Strauss

Orchesterlieder

Franz Liszt

Les Préludes (Symphonic poem No. 3)

Tickets
  • Login StaatsopernCard / Fest-Abonnement
Philharmonie Berlin - Großer Saal

Sym­pho­nie­kon­zert VI

Christian Thielemann, Camilla Nylund, Piotr Beczała
Duration: approx. 2 hrs including one interval

Franz Liszt

Festklänge (Symphonic poem No. 7)

Richard Strauss

Orchesterlieder

Franz Liszt

Les Préludes (Symphonic poem No. 3)

Tickets
  • Login StaatsopernCard / Fest-Abonnement

June 2027