Our Wagner concerts in Berlin 2025

The impact of Richard Wagner on both the German and international music landscapes is unmistakable. His unique, monumental operas define German Romanticism, his music is filled with innovations, and his approach to performance set new standards. The ROC ensembles dedicate themselves to the groundbreaking works of this controversial artist in Wagner concerts across Berlin. Experience Wagner's music in the city's most impressive venues!

Wagner concerts by the ROC in Berlin

Redemption is often at the heart of Wagner's oeuvre, which deeply engages with Germanic mythology—a theme that initially captivated the young Nietzsche, only for him later to dismiss Wagner's music as "simply bad music, the worst that may have ever been made." However, this statement likely stemmed from deep-seated resentment.

Wagner's work set entirely new standards; there is no operas of epic proportions without Wagner, no leitmotif without Wagner, no darkened concert hall without Wagner.

In their Wagner concerts, the ROC ensembles revive Richard Wagner's works, bringing them to life with new, magnificent sound.

Richard Wagner and the infinite melody

“Groundbreaking” is in many ways the word of choice when thinking of Richard Wagner. Even his “music dramas”, as he called his operas, as a whole were large-scale plans for artistic revolution, but the individual elements also conceal upheavals, new discoveries, further thinking and further feeling.

The music in Wagner's operas never stops, it is the river that carries the plot through the opera. The melody flows seamlessly and uninterruptedly through the entire work - in an endless flow, so to speak. This is why Wagner himself gave it the name “infinite melody”. In doing so, Wagner also broke with the fragmentation of the opera into arias, recitatives etc.

Since Wagner's music is far more than mere accompaniment, but rather conveys desire, longing, emotional and psychological developments, in short, the inner life of the characters through sound, melody and harmony, the Wagner concerts of our ROC ensembles also convey this incredible, multi-layered and often overwhelming richness.

Join us for a Wagner concert in Berlin, performed by the ROC ensembles!