Gala from Berlin 2022

Celebrating New Year's Eve with Jonas Kaufmann, Kirill Petrenko & the Berliner Philharmoniker.

On New Year's Eve 2022, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko welcome a very special guest: Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann will join in for a rousing Italian and Russian programme. Save the date for our live transmission of “Gala from Berlin 2022”: Saturday 31 December 2022, 5:30pm CET.

Sonorous foundation, radiant high notes, intelligent shaping: all this makes Jonas Kaufmann a leading singer worldwide. The programme includes famous preludes from Italian opera, Piotr Tchaikovsky's rapturous Capriccio Italien and the most beautiful pieces from Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet with its blend of brilliance and striking expressiveness.

Genre Orchestral Music
Recording location Philharmonie Berlin
Recording date 31.12.2022
Duration approx. 90'
Video format HD
Production Company EuroArts Music
Co-Production Company RBB/arte
TV Director Henning Kasten
Distribution TV EuroArts Music
English title of music work Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino: Overture; La forza del destino: "La vita è inferno all'infelice ... Oh, tu che in seno agli angeli", Aria of Alvaro; Riccardo Zandonai: Giulietta e Romeo: ‟Giulietta! Son io!”, Aria of Romeo; Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1 Op. 64a: Tybalts Death; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier: ‟Un di all'azzurro”, Aria of Andrea; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo; Cavalleria rusticana: ‟Mamma, quel vino è generoso”, Aria of Turrido; Nino Rota: La strada, Orchestral Suite: 1. Nozze in campagna, "È arrivato Zampanò"; La strada, Orchestral Suite: 2. I tre suonatori e il Matto sul filo; Piotr Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien, Op. 45
Orchestra / Band Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Soloist Jonas Kaufmann, tenor