Thurn-und-Taxis Castle Festival

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The Thurn-und-Taxis Castle Festival has been taking place every July since 2003 in the courtyard and park of St. Emmeram Castle in Regensburg . With up to 30,000 visitors per year, it is one of the largest open-air festivals in Germany and attracts audiences far beyond Regensburg's borders. The festival regularly arouses great media interest both because of its program and because of its prominent patroness and numerous well-known guests of honor.

Patron and organizer

The patron of the Thurn-und-Taxis-Schlossfestspiele is Gloria von Thurn und Taxis . The festival is organized by the private concert organizer Odeon Concerte . Reinhard Söll has been in charge of the festival since 2003.

Venue

The events take place outdoors in front of the backdrop of the Princely Palace on a transparent, roofed stage. The audience capacity per performance is around 3,000 visitors. The palace park in front of the east facade is opened to visitors before the performances and during the breaks and used for catering.

program

The program of the Thurn-und-Taxis-Schlossfestspiele includes operas, musicals, operettas, ballet and drama performances, as well as classical and entertaining concerts with internationally renowned artists and ensembles. In recent years, the festival has increasingly sought to collaborate with permanent opera houses, such as the Prague State Opera, the Bonn Opera, the Wroclaw State Opera , the National Theater Brno , the Unter den Linden Berlin State Opera and other respected cultural institutions.

Since 2009 the Thurn-und-Taxis-Schlossfestspiele have been ranked among the “ten most beautiful palace festivals ” in the world according to a ranking by the “Festspiele” magazine published in Vienna .

A selection of artists and outstanding productions

  • Classical area
José Cura (2003), Lucia Aliberti (2003, 2007), José Carreras (2004 and 2017), Agnes Baltsa (2004), Edita Gruberová (2005), Ramón Vargas (2005), Rolando Villazón (2006), Marcelo Álvarez (2007 ), Bobby McFerrin (2006), Juan Diego Flórez (2008), Jonas Kaufmann (2009 and 2016), David Garrett (2007, 2008, 2009, 2013), Elīna Garanča (2010), Joseph Calleja (2011), Vittorio Grigolo ( 2012), Klaus Florian Vogt (2013), Ludovico Einaudi (2013), Angela Gheorghiu (2014), Plácido Domingo (2015), Piotr Beczała (2015)
  • Actors and actresses
Christine Neubauer (2003, 2004, 2007, 2011), Hanna Schygulla (2004), Wilfried Baasner (2005), Cosma Shiva Hagen (2006), Barbara Wussow (2003), Gudrun Landgrebe (2011)
  • Area of ​​light music
Hugo Strasser, Max Greger and Paul Kuhn (2007), Chris de Burgh (2007), Chick Corea (2006), Liza Minnelli (2008), Anna Maria Kaufmann (2009), Patricia Kaas (2009), Max Raabe (2008, 2010 , 2013), Roger Hodgson (2011), Katie Melua (2012), Roger Cicero (2012), Elton John (2014), Udo Jürgens (2013), James Blunt (2014), Nena (2014), Zaz (2015), Xavier Naidoo (2015), Joan Baez (2016), Tom Jones (2016), Scorpions (2016), Sarah Connor (2016), Zucchero (2017), Sting (2017),
  • Selected productions
Orff: Die Bernauerin , Puccini: Tosca , Mozart: Die Zauberflöte , Strauss: Die Fledermaus , Verdi: La traviata , Lloyd Webber: Evita , Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet , Eco: Der Name der Rose, Bizet: Carmen (2008, 2016) , Verdi: Aida (2009, 2017), Nabucco (2010), Rigoletto (2014), Bernstein: West Side Story (2010), Puccini: Turandot (2011), Rocky Horror Show (2013), Puccini La Bohème (2015)

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