The opening of the Berlin Philharmonic’s season is also the former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) came. Merkel appeared in the evening with her husband Joachim Sauer – the two are also regular guests at the Bayreuth Festival.
The Berlin Philharmonic counts with theirs Chief conductor Kirill Petrenko one of the world’s top orchestras. At the start of the new season, the program included works by the British composer Edward Elgar (1857–1934) and the Russian Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893).
The orchestra also travels frequently – concerts are now planned in Salzburg, Austria, and in London’s Royal Albert Hall. In Berlin, the musicians play in the famous Philharmonic Hall, which will have to be renovated in the foreseeable future.