Daniel Barenboim: Berliner Luft

A Gala Concert from the Staatsoper, Unter Den Linden with soloists and magicians.

On New Year's Eve 1997, Daniel Barenboim, chief conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and musical director of the Staatsoper Unter Den Linden, traveled to Berlin to conduct a festive evening of musical entertainment complete with soloists, magicians, dancing and fireworks. Highlights of this sparkling occasion include lighthearted music by Nicolai, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Johann Strauss II, Weill, Kollo and Lincke. Rene Pape and Reiner Goldberg; dancers from the Staatsoper Ballet; fifteen year old violin virtuoso Raphael Christ and the inimitable H.K. Gruber singing Weill's Berlin im Licht round out this memorable evening.