In the 7th Philharmonic Concert of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra on 3-4 March 2024 in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie, Chief Conductor Kent Nagano will present the Fifth Symphony by Anton Bruckner, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated this year. "In this Bruckner anniversary year, one might well ask: 'Who was Anton [...]

“Kent Nagano stands for classical music at the highest level and carries his enthusiasm far into society.” - Dr Carsten Brosda, Minister of Culture and Media Hamburg Ehrung BVO Kent Nagano (c) Claudia Höhne, Bundesverdienstorden, Rathaus Hamburg, Turmsaal, 19.02.2024 Kent Nagano has been honoured by the Federal President with the Grand Cross [...]

Kent Nagano's first concerts in 2024 will take him to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on January 13 for the Dutch premiere of Unsuk Chin's Alaraph 'Rite of the Heartbeat' with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. On January 18 & 19, Kent Nagano will conduct the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich with a world premiere of [...]

On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 6 p.m. (CET), General Music Director Kent Nagano will conduct the premiere of Richard Strauss’ opera Salome at the State Opera Hamburg. ARTE will broadcast the premiere live and the stream will be available in Europe on ARTE Concert for 180 days afterwards. NDR will also broadcast the [...]

This coming Saturday, 16 September, Kent Nagano will open the 2023/24 season of the Hamburg State Opera with Modest P. Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov in a new production by Frank Castorf. “The years between the death of Ivan the Terrible and the ascension of the Romanov family to the throne are known in Russia as the “Time of [...]

Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” on tour (August 2023) After the successful start at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele in June 2023, Kent Nagano will go on tour with Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” in historically informed performance practice in August 2023. With musicians from the Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln as well as a renowned cast, there will be guest [...]

Kent Nagano features on the third season of journalist Aaron Cohen’s podcast, “The World of Gustavo Mahler”. Season three, titled ‘My Joyful Science’, delves into Mahler’s Third Symphony in D minor. Amongst the six episodes in the seasons, conversations with Kent Nagano are featured in the episodes 1, 3 and 6, exploring the “groundbreaking [...]

On Saturday 22 April 2023, Kent Nagano is joined by cellist Jan Vogler and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra as well as an international choir of young singers for a performance at Carnegie Hall, New York. The programme features the world premiere of American composer Sean Shepherd’s An einem klaren Tag—On a Clear Day [...]

On 22 January, Kent Nagano conducts the premiere of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in a production by Angelina Nikonova. The story of the opera is based correspondent tale by Nikolaj Leskow. Other performances are 25, 28 and 31 January, and 4 and 8 February. More information can be found here. “A woman becomes [...]