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Whitsun Festival
SWR SymphonieorchesterAt the Whitsun Festival we bridge the gap between Europe and Hollywood. Long ridiculed, film music is now an independent branch of musical modernism. It focuses less on avant-garde and more on applicability, and incidentally familiarises the audience with dissonances and other modernisms. "Cinema" is something like the sun at Whitsun, but there are other planets: Look forward to jazz, chamber music, British and Russian symphonies. Instead of outer space, the festival begins in the inner space of the soul - with a song recital by Camilla Nylund and Helmut Deutsch.
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La Capitale d'Été
Summer Festival Baden-BadenBeethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto is still sometimes called the "Emperor's Concerto". And worthy of an emperor is the programme of this summer festival, as always with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who this time will conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. The goddess who leans towards the emperor is, as so often with Yannick, the magnificent Joyce DiDonato, who can do everything vocally and stylistically - this time Berlioz, Mahler and Brahms. In between, a man whose piano tone shines like mother-of-pearl: the South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho.
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The World of John Neumeier
Dance Festival Baden-BadenIn the dance festival "The World of John Neumeier," the master choreographer becomes a curator: he shows his own works and invites exciting companies, such as the "Joffrey Ballet" from Chicago in 2024. Above all, however, John Neumeier provides personal insights. In 2024, Neumeier's ballets based on American models are on the program. All home productions, exclusively curated for the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
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La Grande Gare
Autumn Festival Baden-BadenIn the 19th century, the Festspielhaus was a magnificent train station from which trains traveled to the French capital. Today, in the fall, Thomas Hengelbrock, the Parisian by choice, returns to Baden-Baden to take a French look at the repertoire: 2024 with Gluck's "Iphigénie", which stands for the cultural bond between the two countries, as well as great choral works and oratorios.
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Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Berliner PhilharmonikerJoy is sure to fill the air when the Berliner Philharmoniker returns to the festival in the Black Forest. Baden-Baden pays tribute to the marvelous musicians and their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko. Featuring Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and the Baden-Baden debut of young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä together with a chamber music program to be announced later in the year, Baden-Baden and the Berliner Philharmoniker are once again pulling out all the stops for this festival.