Gala from Berlin 2025

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve concert, led by Kirill Petrenko and featuring tenor Benjamin Bernheim.

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve concert, conducted by Kirill Petrenko and with tenor Benjamin Bernheim as a soloist, blends operatic heartbreak with vibrant energy.

Bernheim brings us the love-sick anguish of famous operatic heroes: Don José from Bizet’s Carmen, Lenski from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Massenet’s Werther, and Gounod’s Romeo. The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet is also told in Tchaikovsky’s eponymous Fantasy Overture. With lively music by Bizet, Chabrier, and Gershwin, Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker add sunny flair from southern France, Spain, and Cuba.

The programme will be recorded live on New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2025, 5:30 pm CET.

Genre Orchestral Music
Recording location Philharmonie Berlin
Recording date 31 December 2025
Video format HD
Production Company EuroArts Music, rbb
TV Director Henning Kasten
Distribution TV EuroArts Music
English title of music work Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin, Op. 24: Polonaise; Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24: Introduction, Scene and Lensky’s Aria from Act 2; Gounod: Roméo et Juliette: “L’amour!”, Cavatina of Romeo from Act 2; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare; Bizet: Carmen: Overture. Allegro giocoso; Bizet: Carmen: “La fleur que tu m'avais jetée”, Aria by Don José from Act 2; Bizet: L'Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 for orchestra, No. 4 Farandole; Massenet: Werther: Prelude to Act 1; Massenet: Werther: “Pourquoi me reveiller”, Aria of Werther from Act 3; Chabrier: España, Rhapsody for orchestra; Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Orchestra / Band Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Soloist Benjamin Bernheim, tenor