Konzert zum Jahreswechsel

Babelsberg and Hollywood—these are names that have carried a legendary aura in the film world since the very beginnings of cinema. In Babelsberg, just outside Berlin, major silent film productions were created in the 1920s, for which powerful music was often composed in a symphonic style, including for the epic film Metropolis, based on a screenplay by Thea von Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang.

Exactly 100 years after the completion and premiere of this cinematic vision of the future, excerpts from Gottfried Huppertz’s impressive film score will be performed. Also on the program are selections from the soundtracks of Gone with the Wind, a famous 1939 Hollywood production featuring music by Max Steiner, as well as music from the 1934 Max Reinhardt film A Midsummer Night’s Dream, for which Erich Wolfgang Korngold—who would go on to become one of Hollywood’s most influential composers—rearranged pieces from Mendelssohn’s incidental music and other Mendelssohn works.

From Babelsberg to Hollywood

Film scores from Gottfried Huppertz, Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Artists/Collaborators: (Komponist/in), (Autor/in)

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 31/December/2026 17:00 (1 more date)
• Venue Staatsoper Unter den Linden
• Address Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin-Mitte