What: New Year’s Eve Concert 2025
Who: Berliner Philharmoniker · Kirill Petrenko (conductor) · Benjamin Bernheim (tenor)
Programme: Tchaikovsky (Eugene Onegin; Romeo and Juliet), Fauré (Pelléas et Mélisande), Gounod (Roméo et Juliette), Massenet (Werther), Bizet (L’Arlésienne; Carmen), Chabrier (España), Gershwin (Cuban Overture)
When: Wednesday, 31 December 2025, 17:30 (local time) · 16:30 (GMT)
Streaming platform: Digital Concert Hall
Extra: The stream starts 45 minutes before the concert; a special companion programme begins 30 minutes before the start.
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The Berlin Philharmonic’s New Year’s Eve Concert brings together lyric intensity and orchestral brilliance under Kirill Petrenko, with Benjamin Bernheim as soloist. One of today’s leading lyric tenors, Bernheim explores the emotional extremes of operatic love through a sequence of iconic scenes and arias: Lensky’s farewell from Eugene Onegin, Werther’s anguished monologue, Romeo’s declaration of love, and Don José’s Flower Aria from Carmen.
The programme balances these moments of intimacy with orchestral colour and rhythmic exuberance. Petrenko and the orchestra travel from the drama of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture to the sunlit worlds of Bizet, Chabrier, and Gershwin—southern France, Spain, and Cuba—closing the year with music that moves between tenderness and celebration.
Live from the Philharmonie and streamed worldwide, this New Year’s Eve concert offers a richly contrasted farewell to 2025, combining operatic storytelling with orchestral sparkle.
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