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Tips for your cultural autumn

The 2024/25 season is a very special one for the Hamburg Ballet: After John Neumeier held the directorship for 51 years and made the Hamburg Ballet world-famous, the German-Argentinean Demis Volpi is now taking over. To kick off the season, he presents ‘The Times Are Racing’, a multi-part ballet evening with works by Pina Bausch, Hans van Manen, Demis Volpi and Justin Peck that spans the last 50 years of dance history. After the premiere on 28 September 2024, the production will be performed six more times in October 2024 at the Hamburg State Opera.

Located directly on the Alter Wall next to Hamburg City Hall, the Bucerius Kunst Forum presents four high-calibre exhibitions every year with works on themes ranging from antiquity to the present day. From the 12th of October 2024 to the 19th of January 2025, the international exhibition venue will be all about flowers: ‘Flowers Forever’ invites visitors to take a tour through the cultural history of flowers from antiquity to the present day, discovering flowers in art, design and science. Both art lovers and botany enthusiasts will be captivated by the splendour and diversity of flowers.

Tip: The Bucerius Kunst Forum is part of the Hamburg Art Mile, which allows you to visit six renowned art galleries in Hamburg with just one ticket.

It is Hamburg's landmark: the Elbphilharmonie concert hall. The 2024/2025 season will also bring artistic highlights and big names to the Elbe. Of course, works by Arnold Schönberg and Anton Bruckner are also on the programme to mark the anniversary years. For example, former Hamburg General Music Director Ingo Metzmacher will be conducting the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra on 9 November 2024, conducting Bruckner's first mass and Schönberg's unfinished oratorio ‘Die Jakobsleiter’ in the Great Hall.

It is the last year of Georges Delnon's opera directorship at the Hamburg State Opera. On the 17th of November 2024, ‘Der Freischütz’ will premiere in Andreas Kriegenburg's production, which was originally scheduled for 2021 but could not take place due to the pandemic. The romantic drama continues to fascinate audiences to this day and has become one of the most frequently performed operas on German-speaking stages.

The Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg is the largest spoken theatre in Germany. Director Karin Beier staged Roland Schimmelpfennig's five-part ‘Anthropolis’ series about the rise and fall of the city of Thebes here in 2023. The theatre spectacle became a theatre sensation. And from 18 to 20 October and 22 to 24 November 2024, there is a marathon ticket for all five performances of an ‘Anthropolis’ weekend.