Baden-Baden Easter Festival
The Baden-Baden Easter Festival is a classical music festival that has been held annually since 2013 with the Berlin Philharmonic in the Baden-Baden Festival Hall and other venues in the city .
founding
In May 2011, the Berliner Philharmoniker announced that they would end their participation in the Salzburg Easter Festival at the end of the 2012 season and instead start a new festival in Baden-Baden from 2013 around Easter . The reason given for the separation was that the Salzburg Easter Festival could not implement the demands of the Berlin Philharmonic for a significant expansion of the program for financial reasons. The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden under director Andreas Mölich-Zebhauser , on the other hand, offers a "long-term secure overall situation", explained a spokesman for the foundation's board of directors. In Baden-Baden, "a creative, lively and affordable opera festival" should be created. The spectacular change - the Berliner Philharmoniker have been a central part of the Salzburg Easter Festival since it was founded in 1967 - caused a sensation in the European festival landscape at the time. In June 2011 the Salzburg Easter Festival announced that they would be continuing their festival with Christian Thielemann and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden from 2013 .
history
The first Baden-Baden Easter Festival took place in 2013. The Berliner Philharmoniker under Simon Rattle played Mozart's Magic Flute , directed by Robert Carsen . The festival concept developed by Mölich-Zebhauser and Rattle now includes numerous orchestral and chamber music concerts, a chamber opera and educational projects at various venues around the city, centered around a new central opera production. According to the festival management, the Easter Festival recorded 25,000 visitors in the 2017 season, which corresponds to an occupancy rate of 93 percent. At the end of the 2018 season, Simon Rattle said goodbye to the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. At Easter 2019, Zubin Mehta conducted the festival's opera production. After taking office as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker in autumn 2019, Kirill Petrenko took over the management of the opera productions from 2020. But the 2020 Easter Festival - for the first time under artistic director Benedikt Stampa - was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany . The Baden-Baden Easter Festival has been contractually extended to 2022 and beyond as a collaboration between the Berlin Philharmonic and the Festspielhaus.
Opera productions
Simon Rattle
- 2013 Magic Flute - staged by Robert Carsen
- 2014 Manon Lescaut - directed by Richard Eyre
- 2015 Rosenkavalier - staged by Brigitte Fassbaender
- 2016 Tristan und Isolde - staged by Mariusz Treliński
- 2017 Tosca - staged by Philipp Himmelmann
- 2018 Parsifal - staged by Dieter Dorn
Zubin Mehta
- 2019 Otello - directed by Robert Wilson
Kirill Petrenko
- (2020 Fidelio - staged by Mateja Koležnik , canceled due to the corona pandemic)
planning
- 2021 Mazeppa - directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov
- 2022 Queen of Spades
- 2023 The woman without a shadow
Web links
- Website of the Baden-Baden Easter Festival
- Festspielhaus Baden-Baden: Artistic director sees "Mission accomplished". In: musik-heute.de. March 16, 2018, accessed March 22, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ German Music Information Center (Miz): MIZ - [Baden-Baden Festival] / MIZ. In: miz.org. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
- ^ Berliner Philharmoniker begin festival in Baden-Baden. In: baden-wuerttemberg.de. May 14, 2011, accessed March 22, 2018 .
- ^ Salzburg Easter Festival: Berliner Philharmoniker end engagement . The May 14, 2011 standard
- ^ Angelika Rausch: Berliner Philharmoniker leave Salzburg Easter Festival [update]. In: Neue Musikzeitung . May 14, 2011, accessed March 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Christian Wildhagen: Maßlos disappointed and angry. In: FAZ.net . May 16, 2011, accessed March 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Christian Thielemann becomes artistic director of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2013 to 2017. In: osterfestspiele-salzburg.at. June 10, 2011, accessed March 22, 2018 .
- ^ The Salzburg and Baden-Baden Easter Festival ended. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . July 23, 2014, accessed March 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Time of transition , Easter Festival Baden-Baden 2019 at: berliner-philharmoniker.de
- ↑ Cancellation of the 2020 Easter Festival in Baden-Baden. In: berliner-philharmoniker.de. March 16, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020 .
- ^ Berliner Philharmoniker remain connected to Baden-Baden. In: Klassik.com . March 29, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Easter Festival beyond the year 2022. In: festspielhaus.de. April 21, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Stampa wants to further develop the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In: musik-heute.de. March 15, 2019, accessed April 17, 2019 .