Maskenball!

Double premiere! The Polish conductor Marzena Diakun, celebrated throughout Europe, raises the baton for the first time at the Komische Oper Berlin - and at the same time the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin introduces itself with Eastern European swinging sounds at the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt.The refined late romantic orchestral colors of Diakun's compatriot, the composer Mieczysław Karłowicz, take us to a festive poetic masked ball and form the prelude. Hans Winterberg's Symphonic Dances - a Berlin premiere - continue the orchestral celebration. The Prague composer, who survived imprisonment in Theresienstadt and further developed his musical oeuvre in the Federal Republic, refused the concept of nationality and also found in his compositions the diversity of polyrhythmic, often surreal music. Sergei Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances build a bridge to his Prague colleague and conclude the concert with romantic melodies of tenderly violent beauty - the perfect soundtrack for a symphonic concert for the never-before-seen!