BrahmsA German Requiem
25 October 2025
In the Concert Hall
Classical Music
Overflowing with heartfelt emotion and universal connections, this is a ‘human requiem’ to comfort and console.
| Date | Time |
| Saturday 25 October 2025 | 2:00pm |
| Standard Adults aged 18+ | Price |
| Premium | $140 |
| A Reserve | $114 |
| B Reserve | $88 |
| C Reserve | $60 |
| D Reserve | $45 |
| Concession Full-time domestic & international Students Pensioner card holders (Aust. only) | Price |
| Premium | $126 |
| A Reserve | $103 |
| B Reserve | $79 |
| C Reserve | $55 |
| D Reserve | $40 |
| Children under 18 years Under 30 years | Price |
| C Reserve | $30 |
| D Reserve | $30 |
$8.95 booking fee applies per transaction
Prices correct at the time of publication and subject to change without notice. Exact prices will be displayed with seat selection.
The authorised agencies for this event are Sydney Opera House and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. For more information about Authorised Agencies, see the frequently asked questions below.
General Public tickets on-sale
9:00am, Wednesday 27 November 2024
Wheelchair accessible:
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Language
It will be sung in Gadigal and German. A digital program with English texts will be available a week prior to performance and a limited number of printed programs will be available for sale for $10 at the event. There will be no surtitles at the concert.
Run time
This performance will run for approximately 70 minutes, with no interval.
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Age
Recommended for ages 8+
Children aged 15 years and under must be accompanied at all times.
The Opera House is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children that visit or engage with us. Read our Child Safety Policy.
Sydney Arts Guide, 2024There is a magnificence in hearing the voices in a fine choir, such as the Sydney Philharmonic Choirs, come together so beautifully. It is goosebumps stuff.
Useful information:
A German Requiem
A serious young man, torn by the death of his mother and the loss of a mentor, not a believer but finding comfort in the spiritual… This is the Brahms who wrote A German Requiem – a magnificent, heartful work for soloists, chorus and orchestra.
This isn’t a Latin requiem for the church, and you can forget the fire and brimstone of the ‘day of wrath’. Brahms turned his back on judgement and drama to choose words from Luther’s German bible, creating a text that, as the soprano sings at the end, ‘will comfort you as one whom his own mother comforts’.
A German Requiem speaks of consolation, its music is rich with emotion. It is, as Brahms wrote, ‘a human requiem’. Experience this expansive and heartfelt interpretation with the Festival Chorus and The Sydney Youth Orchestra.
Presented by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
Program
Johannes BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)
Artists
Brett Weymark conductor
Cathy-Di Zhang soprano
Samuel Dundas baritone
Festival Chorus
The Sydney Youth Orchestra
Season 2025
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Venue information
Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
All Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Pram parking will be available outside the theatres in the Western Foyer.
Getting here
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Frequently asked questions
Ticket purchases and collection at our Box Office is discouraged and eTicket or postal delivery methods should be used, wherever possible. However, if you are collecting your tickets from the Box Office, we recommend doing this at least 60 minutes before the event starts. If you have already received your tickets, the venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Please take your seats as soon as you arrive.
If you are late, we will seat you as soon as we can and, where possible, in your allocated seat. However, to reduce movement in the venue as well as minimise disruption to the performance and other patrons, ticketholders may be seated in an allocated latecomer’s seat. Please be aware that some events have lock-out periods. In these cases, latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance. On occasions, this may not be until the interval, or at all where there is no interval.
Details of our right to refuse admission can be found in our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Events.
In accordance with our venue security procedures, Opera House security will be scanning and checking bags under the Monumental Stairs, prior to entering the building. Bags will be scanned by an x-ray machine, and staff will wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when handling your belongings, such as gloves. Cloaking facilities will be open 60 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 60 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. However it is strongly encouraged that you travel lightly to minimise contact and queuing. Any bags larger than an A4 piece of paper will need to be checked into the Cloak Room.
The authorised agency for this event is the Sydney Opera House.
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Please contact Box Office on +61 2 9250 7777 as soon as possible to advise if you can no longer attend.
Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
Please bring a credit or debit card for any on site purchases to enable contactless payment. You’re welcome to bring your own water bottle but no other food and drinks are permitted inside our venues.
The health, safety and wellbeing of everyone at the Sydney Opera House is our top priority. In line with this commitment, the Opera House became a smoke-free site in January 2022. Read our Smoke-free Environment Policy.
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