Start of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele (May 2025)
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The Wagner Cycles on the New York Times best-of list (December 2024)
The Dresden Music Festival’s project “The Wagner Cycles” has been included on the New York Times Best Of list: the concert performance of Richard Wagner’s “Die Walküre” with the Dresden Festival Orchestra and Concerto Köln under the direction of Kent Nagano was included on the......
The Wagner Cycles: Making-Of Die Walküre (December 2024)
A Project of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele under the artistic directorship of Jan Vogler and Kent Nagano In “The Wagner Cycles”, the individual works of Richard Wagner’s tetralogy will be performed in concert in a special collaboration between the Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln. Der Ring......
The Dresdner Musikfestspiele bring their new Wagner Sound to the Lucerne Festival (August 2024)
The Dresdner Musikfestspiele opens a new chapter in Wagner interpretation history with its »The Wagner Cycles« project. At the invitation of the Lucerne Festival, Richard Wagner’s »Die Walküre« will be performed in a historically informed concert version with the Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln under......
Dresden Music Festival 2024 – “Horizons” (May 2024)
The Dresden Music Festival begins a four-week celebration of music in all its facets and genres: on May 9 with a historically informed concertante performance of Richard Wagner’s “Die Walküre” with the Dresden Festival Orchestra and Concerto Köln at Kulturpalast, conducted by Kent Nagano. This......
Dresdner Musikfestspiele program 2024: “Horizons” (November 2023)
Next year’s edition of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele with its theme “Horizons” will take place from May 9 to June 9, 2024. Jan Vogler, cellist and Intendant of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, is focusing on variety and new discoveries in the program of the 47th festival: “The......
Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” with the Dresdner Festspielorchester & Concerto Köln at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele (June 2023)
With standing ovations, the audience celebrated the team of the Wagner Project of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele at the performance on Wednesday – under the direction of Kent Nagano, the musicians of the Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln and soloists presented Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” in historically......
Omer Meir Wellber and Jan Vogler at the Dresden Music Festival (June 2023)
On Thursday and Friday, Omer Meir Wellber will be a guest in Dresden with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini. Thursday’s concert will feature a program of works by Verdi, Shostakovtian, Wagner and Tchaikovsky with cellist and the festival’s artistic director Jan Vogler. Jan Vogler will interpret......
The Dresden Music Festival launches an artistic and academic Wagner Project with the Dresden Festival Orchestra and Concerto Köln (March 2023)
As part of a comprehensive artistic and academic project, the Dresden Music Festival will explore the original sound of Richard Wagner, starting in 2023. The project’s mission is to present an annual concert performance of one part of Richard Wagner’s opera tetralogy »Der Ring des......
Dresden Music Festival 2023 from 18 May to 18 June (November 2022)
The Dresden Music Festival 2023 will take place under the motto “BLACK AND WHITE” from 18 May to 18 June 2023. “We are looking forward to a lively and diverse 2023 festival season. Dramatic and stirring contrasts, tender nuances, and connections formed through music will......