Overview
- Chief conductor Daniele Gatti will lead two four‑day runs of all nine Beethoven symphonies in spring 2027, with the cycles touring to Vienna in April and to Spain in May.
- Four young composers have been commissioned for dialogue works, supported by a public program including a symposium, late‑night concerts, a chamber matinée and family offerings.
- The orchestra advances its four‑year Mahler project into year three with a focus on the composer’s late works.
- Ehrendirigent Herbert Blomstedt is slated to return for the 13 February Dresden remembrance concert, conducting Brahms’s Nänie and Symphony No. 4.
- Jörg Widmann will serve simultaneously as Capell‑Compositeur and Capell‑Virtuos, as the season spans roughly 100 concerts and the Semperoper schedules the new chamber opera Subotnik by Samuels Penderbaynes after Ferdinand von Schirach.