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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
The »MAGIC« of the Dresden Music Festival has unfolded its full charm in the past four and a half weeks. Musical highlights, standing ovations, and dancing guests in the concert halls: With the first full-scale edition since the start of the pandemic, director Jan Vogler......
The Dresden Music Festival 2022 will take place under the motto “MAGIC” from 11 May to 10 June with a special program which explores the multifaceted perspectives that Intendant Jan Vogler and his team stand for in Dresden since 2008. “Especially now, artists, as well......