New Year’s Eve Concert 2025 - Berliner Philharmoniker

Love’s pain meets exuberance – our New Year’s Eve programme is an emotional rollercoaster. Benjamin Bernheim, one of today’s leading lyric tenors, brings us the love-sick anguish of famous operatic heroes: Don José from Bizet’s Carmen, Lenski from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Massenet’s Werther, and Gounod’s Romeo. The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet is also told in Tchaikovsky’s eponymous Fantasy Overture. With lively music by Bizet, Chabrier, and Gershwin, Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker also take us to the sun: to southern France, Spain, and Cuba.

Programme:

Piotr Tchaikovsky
Eugen Onegin, op. 24: Polonaise

Piotr Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin, op. 24: Introduction, Scene and Lensky’s Aria from Act 2
_{Benjamin Bernheim tenor}

Gabriel Faure
Pelléas et Mélisande, orchestral suite, op. 80: 3rd Movement Sicilienne

Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette: “L’amour!”, Cavatina of Romeo from Act 2
_{Benjamin Bernheim tenor}

Piotr Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare

_{Interval (not on 31.12.2025)}

Jules Massenet
Werther: Prelude to Act 1

Jules Massenet
Werther: “Pourquoi me réveiller”, Aria of Werther from Act 3
_{Benjamin Bernheim tenor}

Georges Bizet
L'Arlésienne: Suite No. 2 for orchestra: No. 4 Farandole

Georges Bizet
Carmen: “La fleur que tu m'avais jetée”,  Aria by Don José from Act 2
_{Benjamin Bernheim tenor}

Emmanuel Chabrier
España, Rhapsody for orchestra

George Gershwin
Cuban Overture

Tickets: 5900 HUF

Director: Kirill Petrenko

Conductor: Kirill Petrenko
Special guest: Benjamin Bernheim tenor