The first sounds welcome the audience to the Opera Square, and after the concert everyone is invited to the Clara Schumann Foyer, where the Apollo5 vocal ensemble will bring the evening to a relaxed close with folk, jazz and pop.
The new bond has been sealed since the summer of 2022, but it will come to life at the start of this season: when Daniele Gatti takes up his post as the new Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden in August, a new chapter will begin in the orchestra's 450-year success story. "The character and treasures of the Saxon orchestra are in good hands with him, and at the same time he will initiate new accents and programmatic developments," the decision-makers in Dresden are certain - especially as they know and appreciate each other from more than 20 years of happy collaboration.
As soon as the inaugural concert in Dresden has been completed, the orchestra and conductor make their way to Frankfurt to open the season at the Alte Oper. In their luggage are two works that are indebted to the classical-romantic tradition and yet herald the dawn of new times: Arnold Schönberg's string sextet "Verklärte Nacht" in the version for string orchestra and Gustav Mahler's First Symphony.
September 14, 2024
