What, where, when
Chineke! Orchestra joins the Cape Town Opera Vocal Ensemble for a semi‑staged performance of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess on 15 September 2026 at 20:00. The venue is listed as Berliner Festspiele, Schaperstraße 24, Berlin; this information comes from the event listings and the festival programme.
Tickets and practicals
One event page shows ticket prices from €20 to €105. The same listing displays a like count of 736 for the event. A festival calendar and the Philharmonie programme also carry the date and time.
Programme and context
The festival programme notes that this production pairs the Chineke! ensemble (founded to broaden diversity in classical music) with the Cape Town Opera singers for Gershwin’s work, which mixes jazz and spirituals and was historically intended to be sung by Black performers; those details are taken from the programme text and event descriptions.
Conductor discrepancy
Most concert pages name Kwamé Ryan as conductor for the Berlin performance, while a city tourism listing names Enrique Mazzola. I could not find a single authoritative press release in the listings I checked that resolves that contradiction; the programme calendar and the city page disagree on this point.
Notes on sourcing
Image credit (© Chuko Cribb) appears on the event listing. I found no quoted statements from participants about this Berlin date in the listings I checked, so in that sense the headline is all there is for direct commentary. If you need the final conductor confirmation, check the festival’s official press or the Philharmonie box office before you go.
