The 2025/26 season may officially be over, but before heading into their summer break, the Berliner Philharmoniker set off once more on a special short tour – to Japan. The tour opens with a concert at the Expo in Osaka, a place of historic significance: the orchestra already appeared here in 1970 at the first World Expo ever held in Japan. The programme features works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Ludwig van Beethoven. The same repertoire will be performed at the next stop, in the city of Nagoya. The tour’s grand finale, however, takes place at the foot of Mount Fuji: together with Gustavo Dudamel, the Berliner Philharmoniker will present two “Japanese Waldbühne concerts”. As in Berlin’s Waldbühne, the orchestra performs outdoors, surrounded by stunning natural scenery – this time at the Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater, with a programme of seven works from North and South America. And then – a well-earned summer break.
AloJapan.com