“The Fantastic” is the theme of this season’s chamber concerts in the Apollosaal, based on the first opera premiere of the season, Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Musicians from the Staatskapelle Berlin have developed programmes that approach this idea and concept, which are known to play an essential role in music, in a variety of ways. From the Baroque to the present day, with a special focus on the Romantic period, centred on Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and the multi-talented E.T.A. Hoffmann (who became the title hero in idealised form in Offenbach's opera), ‘The Fantastic’ will be illuminated with a variety of chamber music works in diverse instrumentations.