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Figes’ book "The Europeans", a panorama that illuminates the impact of painting, music, and literature, serves as the occasion for a conversation about Europe between the writer, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock, and artistic director of the Festspielhaus Benedikt Stampa – further guests are also expected.

The young South African Kristian Bezuidenhout is the most famous fortepiano player of our time. With the members of the Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, he will be performing music from the early Romantic period – including Schubert's celebrated Trout Quintet.

Baden-Baden's collegiate church will be reopened in 2023, freshly renovated. Many margraves and margravines rest here, while in the nave it is music that ensures a lively congregational life. We are delighted to be guests again with a festival concert.

"Harmony" is the keyword. This and perfect intonation are central to choir singing, but here “harmony” goes beyond that. This concert is about German-French unity – as well as its intermittent absence...

With Werther, it is clear why Robert Carsen had to stage this opera. Theatrical material at its finest, as if tailor-made for the Canadian director, who works very often in France and whose stage language is understood all over the world.

After exploring the nineteenth-century European salon and the musical worlds of the Renaissance, Thomas Hengelbrock finally breaks all boundaries in presenting works from New Zealand, Europe and North, Central, and South America.

You like singing, perhaps already from sheet music and in a choir? Then you are warmly invited to our Singing Festival. Under the guidance of the instructors from the Balthasar Neumann Choir, you will work on selected examples of European music over two days. There will be two days of rehearsals, after which we invite everyone to a festive final concert – the latter is free of charge for all guests.