«No one can stop the music»

Répétition publique / Öffentliche Probe / Public rehearsal

For this concert, all visitors aged six and up must show proof of eligibility to attend via CovidCheck. For further information, click here

At the Philharmonie, the season opening of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg heralds the end of summer, but portends other pleasures. In its first concert of the new season, the orchestra is joined by soprano Diana Damrau, whose glowing timbre illuminates songs by Richard Strauss. Igor Stravinsky’s ballet music The Firebird, which the composer wrote at the age of only 18, boasts an orchestration already replete with the colourful imagination so characteristic of Stravinsky. The chief conductor of the OPL, Gustavo Gimeno, leads the orchestra and also offers an outlook on the coming season during an artist talk at the Grand Auditorium at 19:15.

For this concert, all visitors aged six and up must show proof of eligibility to attend via CovidCheck. For further information, click here

Ce concert sera enregistré par radio 100.7 et retransmis en direct.

For this concert, all visitors aged twelve years old and two months and up must show proof of eligibility to attend via CovidCheck. You must wear a facemask for your entire stay at the Philharmonie, including for the duration of the concert, if you are over the age of 6. Concerts presented under CovidCheck rules will take place at full seating capacity. For further information, click here

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On 10.12. the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg delves into Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno, joined by soloist Gerhild Romberger, the Wiener Singverein and Pueri Cantores. The work’s programme is an epic tale of earth’s creation. Beginning with a monumental first movement (of six), it closes with a resolutely optimistic finale, which one critic declared the most beautiful slow movement since Beethoven when it was first performed in its entirety. Before the concert, David Christoffel dedicates a lecture in French to the subject «Gustav Mahler, précurseur de l’écologie sonore?».

For this concert, all visitors aged twelve years old and two months and up must show proof of eligibility to attend via CovidCheck. You must wear a facemask for your entire stay at the Philharmonie, including for the duration of the concert, if you are over the age of 6. Concerts presented under CovidCheck rules will take place at full seating capacity. For further information, click here

Ce concert sera enregistré par radio 100,7 et retransmis en direct.

Ce concert sera enregistré par radio 100,7 et retransmis en direct.

After her recital debut at the Philharmonie in June, the young pianist Beatrice Rana now joins the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under its chief conductor Gustavo Gimeno for the first time on Jan. 14. Her virtuosity and musical intelligence will be on display in Sergey Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, a late-romantic highlight. This work is framed by subito con forza by the Korean composer Unsuk Chin and César Franck’s Symphony in D-minor.

This concert takes place under the CovidCheck 2G+ regulations (vaccinated or recovered) for visitors aged 12 years and 2 months and up. The CovidCheck 3G+ rule applies only for visitors aged over 12 years and two months and under 19 and neither vaccinated nor recovered: (a negative Covid-19 test in accordance to Luxembourgish law which is valid on the day of the concert is also accepted). You must wear a facemask for your entire stay at the Philharmonie, including for the duration of the concert, if you are over the age of 6. For further information, click here

Ce concert sera enregistré par radio 100.7 et retransmis en direct.

This concert takes place under the CovidCheck 3G regulations (vaccinated, recovered or tested negative) for visitors aged 12 years and 2 months and up. You must wear a facemask for your entire stay at the Philharmonie, including for the duration of the concert, if you are over the age of 6. For further information, click here

Sensuous and gripping sounds from three musical individualists – such is the territory the OPL, Gustavo Gimeno and artist-in-residence Isabelle Faust chart at the Grand Auditorium on Feb. 25: Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux and Maurice Ravel. Britten’s Violin Concerto, written while the composer was on his way into exile in the USA, is as rich in dramatic contrasts as in nuanced sonic discoveries – such as also characterize Dutilleux’ First Symphony. In this concert, it follows Ravel’s sparkling and profound La Valse before the evening’s soloist invites the audience to intimate and personal sonic voyages, in keeping with the spirit of «Aventure+».

This concert takes place under the CovidCheck 3G regulations (vaccinated, recovered or tested negative) for visitors aged 12 years and 2 months and up. You must wear a facemask for your entire stay at the Philharmonie, including for the duration of the concert, if you are over the age of 6. For further information, click here

Ce concert sera enregistré par radio 100,7 et retransmis le 4 mai 2022.

Giacomo Puccini is remembered by audiences, but also by music historians, mainly as an opera composer. However, the catalogue of works by the creator of musical theatre highlights such as Tosca or Madame Butterfly also includes works for symphony orchestra – with or without chorus – that are well worth discovering. Together with the tenor Charles Castronovo, the baritone Ludovic Tézier and the chorus Orfeó Català, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Gustavo Gimeno approach this less familiar, but by no means less intriguing side of Puccini. This will also be illuminated by a pre-concert talk in French by Anne Payot-Le Nabour.

Ce concert sera enregistré par radio 100,7 et retransmis le 15 juin 2022.