Dear concert lovers,
dear concert subscribers,

An extraordinary season awaits you: we have succeeded in luring my esteemed predecessors Dennis Russell Davies, Lothar Zagrosek, Manfred Honeck and Sylvain Cambreling back to their former work places. At the same time, the musicians of the Staatsorchester are even more versatile than before: eight of them in solo concerts, and oboist Ivan Danko as a composer.

With the First, the Sixth and the Ninth, the Staatsorchester and I will complete our Mahler cycle. Within eight years, we will have performed all the Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Mahler symphonies, almost all the Beethoven symphonies (with the exception of the Ninth) and around a third of the Mozart symphonies.

But as usual, we combine the monoliths of the concert repertoire with both premieres and first performances – this season: Danko, Hefti, Hosokawa, Schulhoff, Simon – as well as with rarely performed works from earlier times.

On various occasions, the Staatsopernchor will be in the sportlight of concerts: in the symphony concert and lunch concert series and at the opening of the season. Opening, lunch, chamber, symphony, Christmas, New Year, song and open-air concerts or the Chaplin silent movie performance: What is your favorite format?

I warmly greet you, the fans of the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, the Staatsopernchor and the vocal ensemble, in anticipation of season 2025/26!

Yours,
Cornelius Meister
General Music Director of the Staatsoper and Staatsorchester Stuttgart