The "LOVE" for music knows no borders: The Dresden Music Festival sets an example for understanding with 61 concerts in 2025.
The Dresden Music Festival is dedicating its programme from 17 May to 14 June 2025 to the theme of "LOVE". Director Jan Vogler has invited orchestras and artists from three continents to Dresden for the 48th festival year and wants to use music to send a message of understanding to the world in times of social upheaval 20 years after the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche. Whether Scottish folk music or top orchestras from the USA, Asia and Europe, from the love poem reading with Lars Eidinger, to the open-Air with the pop singer Ronan Keating to the concert rediscovery of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" in a historical reading with the Dresden Festival Orchestra and Concerto Köln under the direction of Kent Nagano - there are no limits to the love of music in the 61 concerts at 24 atmospheric venues in Dresden and the surrounding area.
The festival will be preceded by the "Concert for Peace", in which musicians from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra will perform together under the direction of Lahav Shani in the Kreuzkirche on 9 May 2025. Other highlights include the two guest performances by the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi at the festival opening, the reunion with fado singer Mariza and the festival debut of violinist Janine Jansen & Camerata Salzburg.
The Festival audience can look forward to orchestral fireworks in 2025: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will return to the Elbe for a guest performance under the direction of Jaap van Zweden. With the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and Prague Philharmonia, the music festival will bring the full diversity of the European musical tradition to Dresden - and the Xi'an Orchestra of Traditional Chinese Music will provide an exciting contrast with traditional sounds from Asia. Iconic choreographer Sasha Waltz and "Revolta" pay tribute to their love of dance. In the jazz and pop section, two multi-faceted artists of the next generation take to the stage: Japanese pianist Hiromi and jazz singer and composer Alma Naidu.
In contrast, the coming year will see a variety of formats for everyone, such as the traditional "Dresden sings & musiziert", the "Klingende Stadt" or a sing-along concert by the Dresdner Kreuzchor, which will feature the "Mozart Requiem". The Dresdner Festspielorchester invites you to a concert for everyone with the Verdi Requiem. The first encounter between the Dresden Music Festival and contemporary circus theatre in the tent on the banks of the Elbe in collaboration with the Societaetstheater Dresden will be a premiere.
The festival will be preceded by the "Concert for Peace", in which musicians from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra will perform together under the direction of Lahav Shani in the Kreuzkirche on 9 May 2025. Other highlights include the two guest performances by the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi at the festival opening, the reunion with fado singer Mariza and the festival debut of violinist Janine Jansen & Camerata Salzburg.
The Festival audience can look forward to orchestral fireworks in 2025: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will return to the Elbe for a guest performance under the direction of Jaap van Zweden. With the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and Prague Philharmonia, the music festival will bring the full diversity of the European musical tradition to Dresden - and the Xi'an Orchestra of Traditional Chinese Music will provide an exciting contrast with traditional sounds from Asia. Iconic choreographer Sasha Waltz and "Revolta" pay tribute to their love of dance. In the jazz and pop section, two multi-faceted artists of the next generation take to the stage: Japanese pianist Hiromi and jazz singer and composer Alma Naidu.
In contrast, the coming year will see a variety of formats for everyone, such as the traditional "Dresden sings & musiziert", the "Klingende Stadt" or a sing-along concert by the Dresdner Kreuzchor, which will feature the "Mozart Requiem". The Dresdner Festspielorchester invites you to a concert for everyone with the Verdi Requiem. The first encounter between the Dresden Music Festival and contemporary circus theatre in the tent on the banks of the Elbe in collaboration with the Societaetstheater Dresden will be a premiere.
