Our Richard Strauss concerts in Berlin 2026

There are probably few sounds more iconic than Richard Strauss' “Also Sprach Zarathustra”. However, Strauss' genius goes far beyond this work: a fact that the four top ensembles of the ROC will once again make clear this season. Experience Strauss' impressive compositions in the magnificent venues of Berlin - a city that Strauss was also able to call home for 20 years.

Richard Strauss concerts by the ROC in Berlin

Richard Strauss was filled with music from the very beginning of his life. This lifelong passion is evident not only in his famous operas, but also in his numerous tone poems. In Berlin, you can regularly enjoy a concert evening by the ROC ensembles, where the works of Richard Strauss fill the halls of the Philharmonie Berlin, the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt or another location and also draw you into the spirit of late Romanticism!

The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin plays Strauss' “Eine Alpensinfonie”

Richard Strauss and his extraordinarily diverse oeuvre

His symphonic poems, above all of course his “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, but also his “Don Juan”, which catapulted him into the starry heavens of composers at the age of 24, and his “Eine Alpensinfonie” gave program music a completely new voice.
Modeled on Beethoven, Liszt, Berlioz and Wagner, the poetic program of Strauss' tone poems is “nothing more than the form-forming occasion for the expression and purely musical development of [his] feelings”, not just a musical description of certain processes in life. Strauss himself expressed this in a letter to his friend Romain Rolland.

His tone poems in particular are characterized by a grandiose, colourful orchestration, which Strauss repeatedly reinvented stylistically.

In addition to his symphonic poems, however, Richard Strauss also composed for almost all other genres of classical music; in addition to his world-famous operas, which testify to dramatic power and psychological depth, above all orchestral concertos such as the Horn Concerto No. 1 or the Oboe Concerto in D major, as well as over 200 songs, including his famous “Four Last Songs” from 1948, which Strauss composed one year before his death.

Visit one of the Richard Strauss concerts that our ROC ensembles perform for you in Berlin and enjoy experiencing the works of this groundbreaking composer live and up close!