The light installation, however, has been postponed until April due to rising COVID infections.
The show is choreographed to the second movement of the Piano Concerto by Thomas Adès, which will be performed on January 11, 2022, at the celebratory concert in the Great Hall. The venue's fifth birthday is being celebrated with both musical and visual programs.Īs part of the artwork "Breaking Waves," by the artist collective Drift, hundreds of illuminated drones will bring the facade of the Konzerthaus to life. 'A Celebration of Black Music': a concert with Thomas Hampson 5. Birthday light show But all the complaints about a "million-dollar grave" have since quietened down. The building's construction cost €789 million ($895 million) - 77 million was the initially planned price - and it took 10 years to build the hall instead of three. More than 800 people got their jab there, with a long queue forming outside the venue.įor one day, the Elphi served as a very expensively-constructed vaccination center. The building opened its backstage area, which is otherwise inaccessible to the public, and the musicians' stage in the main hall served as a rest room. Community spirit during a pandemicĭue to the coronavirus pandemic, the Elbphilharmonie - like a lot of cultural institutions - had to close its doors to the public in March 2020.īut the cultural landmark found a way to symbolically reopen during the closure: In early September 2021, the Elbphilharmonie was repurposed as a temporary vaccination center. "For example, we can't find a date for Bob Dylan right now," the artistic director said.Ĭonductor Kent Nagano, the Philharmoniker Hamburg, and the chorus of the Hamburg State Opera, performed on the opening week in January 2017 3. "We get requests from the very biggest names and legends who would love to perform here," he noted, adding that unfortunately the venue's packed schedule can't accommodate them all. He added that the city has "perhaps even become the place for classical music."īeyond classical music, however, there's still room for improvement, Lieben-Seutter admits.
"With the artistic possibilities and the potential with which the Elbphilharmonie inspires broader cultural life, Hamburg has achieved a new status throughout the world," he told German press agency dpa. Celebrated violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has also played in the hall, as has star conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim.Īhead of the fifth anniversary of the "Elphi," artistic director Christoph Lieben-Seutter expressed satisfaction with its track record so far: "We've achieved a lot more than expected," he told press agency KNA.Īlan Gilbert, the 54-year-old chief conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, who led the New York Philharmonic from 2009 to 2017, is similarly upbeat about the venue's first five years. Some world-leading orchestras and musicians have made appearances since the 2017 opening - including Berlin's, Vienna's and New York's philharmonic orchestras and Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis.
The Elbphilharmonie's Great Concert Hall is regularly booked out. The stars of classical music - and Bob Dylan?
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