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The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has announced its 2021-22 season.

For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the vocal works only.

Baritone Matthias Goerne presents works by Richard Wagner alongside conductor Manfred Honeck.

Performance date: Aug. 29, 2021

Soprano Diana Damrau performs works by Richard Strauss alongside conductor Jérémie Rhorer.

Performance date: Sep. 7, 2021

NDR Vokalensemble presents works by Whitacre, Monteverdi, Mäntyjärvi, Schnebel, Fennessy, and Bach alongside conductor Klaas Stok.

Performance date: Sep. 8, 2021

Soprano Anna Prohaska sings Emcke’s “Celebration of Life in Death” alongside La Folia Barockorchester.

Performance date: Sep. 10, 2021

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor presents works by Heinrich Schütz and Claudio Monteverdi alongside conductor Howard Arman.

Performance date: Sep. 18, 2021

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg presents music by Johannes Brahms alongside pianist Ragna Schirmer and conductor Hansjörg Albrecht.

Performance date: Sep. 26, 2021, 7 p.m. CET, Kleiner Saal

Soprano Julia Kleiter performs Ravel’s “Shéhérazade.” Sylvain Cambreling conducts.

Performance dates: Sep. 26 – 27, 2021

Soprano Sabine Devieilhe sings works by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel alongside pianist Alexandre Tharaud.

Performance date: Oct. 6, 2021

Soprano Grace Davidson presents works by Max Richter alongside the Ensemble Resonanz. The composer plays the piano.

Performance date: Oct. 10, 2021

Famed American soprano Renée Fleming performs music by Olivier Messiaen alongside conductor Alan Gilbert.

Performance dates: Oct. 14 – 17, 2021

Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre sings Italian and French baroque music alongside conductor Thomas Dunford and ensemble Jupiter.

Performance date: Oct. 18, 2021

The performance of Francesco Filidei’s “Requiem” spotlights soprano Rinnat Moriah, mezzo-soprano Tora Augestad, countertenor Hagen Matzeit, tenor Ed Lyon, and baritone Michael Nagy. Sylvain Cambreling conducts.

Performance date: Oct. 20, 2021

Bass-baritone Florian Boesch performs works by Franz Schubert alongside the Artemis Quartett.

Performance date: Oct. 22, 2021

Mädchenchor Hamburg presents works by Marina Reshetova. The composer conducts and plays the violin.

Performance date: Oct. 24, 2021

Soprano Layla Claire sings music by Joseph Haydn alongside conductor Andreas Spering.

Performance dates: Oct. 24 – 25, 2021

Soprano Asmik Grigorian performs excerpts from Berg‘s “Wozzeck.” Zubin Mehta conducts the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Performance dates: Oct. 30, 2021

Mezzo-soprano Marie Seidler and baritone Michael Nagy present works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mahler and Wolfgang Rihm alongside conductor Sylvain Cambreling.

Performance date: Nov. 4, 2021

Soprano Christiane Karg sings music by Mozart alongside pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Performance dates: Nov. 9 – 10, 2021

Tenor Ian Bostridge performs works by Vivaldi, Albinoni, and Cavalli. The Cappella Neapolitana accompanies.

Performance date: Nov. 16, 2021

Soprano Monika Brychtová, alto Dita Stejskalová, tenor Dušan Růžička, and baritone Jakub Tolaš perform Mozart’s “Requiem” and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Choral.” Petr Chromčák conducts the Tschechische Symphoniker Prag.

Performance date: Nov. 18, 2021

The performance of Mozart’s “Great Mass in C minor” spotlights soprano Regula Mühlemann, alto Sophie Harmsen, tenor David Fischer, and bass Krešimir Stražanac. Philippe Herreweghe conducts the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and Collegium Vocale Gent.

Performance date: Nov. 21, 2021

A concert performance of Leoš Janáček‘s “The Cunning Little Vixen” stars Angela Brower, Roland Wood, William Thomas, Robert Murray, Kitty Whately, Ella Taylor, Elizabeth Cragg, and Elena Tsallagova in the title role. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Performance date: Nov. 23, 2021

Soprano Julia Lezhneva sings music by Vivaldi, Porpora, Graun, and Händel alongside the Concerto Köln.

Performance date: Nov. 24, 2021

Baritone Matthias Goerne presents works by Hanns Eisler alongside the Ensemble Resonanz.

Performance date: Nov. 27, 2021

Matthias Goerne sings music by Hanns Eisler alongside pianist Markus Hinterhäuser.

Performance date: Nov. 28, 2021

Baritone Christian Gerhaher performs works by Antonín Dvořák alongside conductor Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Performance date: Nov. 29, 2021

Soprano Johanna Wallroth sings Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 alongside conductor Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Performance date: Nov. 30, 2021

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor and soloists perform works by Mozart. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts.

Performance date: Dec. 3, 2021

Soprano Keri Fuge, alto David Allsopp, tenor Thomas Walker, and baritone André Morsch present Händel‘s “Messiah.” Klaas Stok conducts.

Performance date: Dec. 12, 2021

Cecilia Bartoli sings Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” alongside conductor Gianluca Capuano and Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco.

Performance date: Dec. 14, 2021

Soprano Grace Davidson, alto Martha McLorinan, tenor James Gilchrist, and baritone Matthew Brook perform Händel’s “Messiah.” Nigel Short conducts the Academy of Ancient Music.

Performance date: Dec. 18, 2021

The Don Cossack Choir performs various works.

Performance date: Dec. 23, 2021

Harvestehuder Kammerchor presents Brahms’ works alongside conductor Kent Nagano.

Performance date: Dec. 31, 2021

Soprano Christiane Libor, alto Stine Marie Fischer, tenor Robert Dean Smith, and bass Tobias Schabel perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 “Choral.” Sylvain Cambreling conducts the Symphoniker Hamburg.

Performance dates: Dec. 31, 2021 – Jan. 1, 2022

Soprano Monika Brychtová, alto Dita Stejskalová, and tenor Jakub Rousek perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 “Choral.” The Coro di Praga will present Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” Petr Chromčák conducts the Tschechische Symphoniker Prag.

Performance date: Jan. 2, 2022

Soprano Nadja Korovina, alto Karin Lasa, tenor Christian Juslin and bass Igor Storozhenko give another performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 “Choral” alongside conductor Igor Budinstein and the Deutsche Philharmonie Berlin.

Performance date: Jan. 6, 2022

Soprano Sarah Wegener and baritone Thomas E. Bauer present Jörg Widmann’s “Oratorium” alongside conductor Kent Nagano.

Performance dates: Jan. 9 – 10, 2021

Sopranos Anu and Piia Komsi sing various works alongside conductor Alan Gilbert.

Performance dates: Jan. 11 – 12, 2022

Milano Festival Opera’s singers perform film music by Ennio Morricone alongside conductors Marco Seco and Marcin Wolniewski.

Performance date: Jan. 13, 2021

Soprano Anna Prohaska and bass-baritone Florian Boesch present music by Bach and Buxtehude. Il Pomo d’Oro accompanies.

Performance date: Jan. 18, 2022

Tenor Rolando Villazón performs works by Carlos Guastavino, Manuel de Falla, Alberto Ginastera and Silvio Rodríguez.

Performance date: Jan. 19, 2022

NDR Vokalensemble and MDR-Rundfunkchor perform music by Ravel. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts.

Performance dates: Jan. 27 – 28, 2022, Elbphilharmonie

Tenors Vincenzo Sanso, Luigi Frattola, Orfeo Zanetti, Daniel Damyanov, and Emil Pavlov sing arias from the operatic repertoire, including “Rigoletto,” “Turandot,” and “Carmen.”

Performance date: Jan. 27, 2022, Laeiszhalle

Tenor Andrea Bocelli performs various works.

Performance date: Jan. 29, 2022

Europa Chor Akademie Görlitz presents works by Olivier Messiaen and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart alongside pianist David Kadouch and conductor Sylvain Cambreling.

Performance date: Jan. 30, 2022

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor and soloists perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Mass in B minor.” Thomas Hengelbrock conducts.

Performance date: Feb. 4, 2022

Bass Alexander Vinogradov presents works by Shostakovich and Beethoven alongside pianist Till Fellner and the Estnischer Nationaler Männerchor RAM. Kent Nagano conducts.

Performance dates: Feb. 6 – 7, 2022

Tenor Daniel Behle sings works by Schubert alongside conductor Michi Gaigg and L’Orfeo Barockorchester.

Performance date: Feb. 8, 2022, Elbphilharmonie

“Grand Night of Verdi” spotlights soprano Silvia Rampazzo, tenor Cristian Lanza, and baritone Giulio Boschetti.

Performance date: Feb. 8, 2022, Laeiszhalle

Soprano Claron McFadden sings extracts from Purcell’s “Dido et Aeneas.”

Performance date: Feb. 9, 2022

NDR Vokalensemble performs works by Barber, Copland, and Ives alongside conductor Alan Gilbert.

Performance date: Feb. 11, 2022

The concert performance of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” spotlights Monica Piccinini, Marina de Liso, Roberta Invernizzi, Aleksey Bogdanov, Fabrizio Beggi, Francesco Marsiglia, Giuseppe Valentino Buzza, Filippo Mineccia, and Ian Bostridge in the title role. Fabio Biondi conducts the Europa Galante.

Performance date: Feb. 16, 2022, Elbphilharmonie

Twelve Tenors Ensemble performs classical arias and pop songs.

Performance date: Feb. 16, 2022, Laeiszhalle

The performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 spotlights soprano Christina Landshamer and mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison. Jakub Hrůša conducts the Bamberger Symphoniker.

Performance date: Feb. 22, 2022

The performance of Schumann’s “Das Paradies und die Peri” stars sopranos Lucy Crowe and Anna Prohaska, mezzo-soprano Anna Lapkovskaja, tenor Andrew Staples, and bass Florian Boesch. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin.

Performance date: Feb. 23, 2022

Baritone Michael Volle and tenor Michael König present works by Haydn and Mahler. Sylvain Cambreling conducts.

Performance date: Feb. 27 – 28, 2022

Soprano Evelina Dobračeva, mezzo-soprano Lucie Hilscherová, tenor Aleš Briscein, and bass Jan Martiník perform Leoš Janáček’s “Glagolitic Mass.” Katia and Marielle Labèque play the piano. Semyon Bychkov conducts the Tschechische Philharmonie.

Performance date: March 12, 2022

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato performs works by Charles Ives, Henry Purcell, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Georg Friedrich Händel, and Gustav Mahler. Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Il Pomo d’Oro.

Performance date: March 14, 2022

Soprano Barbara Hannigan sings music by John Zorn alongside the JACK Quartet and pianist Stephen Gosling.

Performance date: March 19, 2022

Soprano Dorothee Mields, alto Terry Wey, tenor Raphael Höhn, and bass Tobias Berndt present works by Bach and Buxtehude.

Performance date: March 21, 2022

Soprano Sarah Wegener, mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya, tenor Robert Dean Smith, and bass Franz-Josef Selig perform Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis.” Sylvain Cambreling conducts.

Performance date: March 27, 2022

Europa Chor Akademie Görlitz presents music by Bach alongside conductor Joshard Daus.

Performance date: April 3, 2022

Soprano Christiane Karg performs Mahler’s “Rückert-Lieder” alongside conductor Petr Popelka.

Performance date: April 10, 2022

NDR Vokalensemble and soloists perform works by György Ligeti alongside conductor Klaas Stok.

Performance date: April 19, 2022

Soprano Christiane Karg performs songs by Alma Mahler alongside conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest.

Performance date: April 27, 2022

Soprano Christina Landshamer and baritone Benjamin Appl present Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung.” Alan Gilbert conducts.

Performance date: April 28, 2022

Alto Gerhild Romberger sings Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. Kent Nagano conducts.

Performance dates: April 30 – May 2, 2022

Bass-baritone Florian Boesch performs Krenek’s “Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen” alongside pianist Malcolm Martineau.

Performance date: May 5, 2022

NDR Vokalensemble performs Dvořák’s “Rusalka” alongside conductor Alan Gilbert.

Performance date: May 6 – 8, 2022

Tenor István Hórvath sings Zoltán Kodály’s works alongside conductor Gergely Madaras.

Performance date: May 8, 2022

Tenor Sebastian Kohlhepp presents works by Britten alongside conductor Sylvain Cambreling.

Performance date: May 19, 2022

Soprano Lise Davidsen performs Richard Strauss’ “Vier letzte Lieder” alongside conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Performance dates: May 20 – 21, 2022

Soprano Ana Quintans, countertenor Cyril Auvity, baritone Igor Bouin, bass-baritone Romain Bockler, and bass Virgile Ancely present works by Lully & Molière alongside conductor Vincent Dumestre.

Performance date: May 23, 2022

Soprano Asmik Grigorian sings lieder by Rachmaninoff alongside pianist Lukas Geniušas.

Performance date: May 24, 2022

Christina Landshamer, Ian Bostridge, and Florian Boesch present Haydn’s “Die Jahreszeiten.” Nicolas Altstaedt conducts.

Performance date: May 25, 2022

Alto Wiebke Lehmkuhl sings Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. Semyon Bychkov conducts.

Performance date: June 2 – 5, 2022

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor and soloists perform Mozart’s “Krönungsmesse” alongside conductor Duncan Ward.

Performance date: June 2, 2022, Laeiszhalle

Soprano Marie Heeschen sings Samuel Penderbayne’s “Unsex Me Here” alongside violinist Antje Weithaas.

Performance dates: June 7 – 8, 2022

Matthias Goerne performs works by Berg, Schumann, Wolf, and Shostakovich alongside pianist Daniil Trifonov.

Performance date: June 13, 2022