The year 2025 is undoubtedly a Pierre Boulez Year, marking the centenary of his birth. He was a great composer, an influential conductor, as well as a teacher and philosopher. Wednesday, March 26, 2025, marks the exact 100th anniversary of his birth. On this occasion, the city of Baden-Baden, where he is buried, and the […]

The renowned conductor and celebrated composer Pierre Boulez would have turned 100 in 2025. Thus, a “Boulez Year” is on the horizon, already making waves in Germany, particularly in Baden-Baden, the musical city of the Black Forest. Boulez lived and worked there for more than 60 years and was named an honorary citizen of the […]

Two of the greatest voices of the moment join forces to offer themselves mainly to Puccini. Begun last week in Barcelona, a tour brings together soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczała that takes them to Seville, Madrid and Valencia before Germany as in Baden Baden where they are expected on 29 November 2024. With […]

The great American choreographer John Neumeier has just turned a page in his exemplary artistic life. Having just bid farewell to the Hamburg Ballet, which he directed for 51 years, the choreographer is not giving up the stage. Beginning in the 1940s, his career, recently crowned with a “lifetime achievement award” by the specialized magazine […]

Following the announcement that the Berliner Philharmoniker will be returning to Salzburg from 2026, Baden-Baden is calling on a new generation of artists to maintain its prestigious Easter Festival at the same level of excellence. In order to “broaden the European vision”, the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will take over […]

Jonathan Tetelman, the new tenor the world over has been snapping up, is Werther in Baden-Baden, directed by Robert Carsen. Having already performed the role in Lima and Montevideo, the American-Chilean artist offers his European premiere on 24 and 26 November 2023 to Festspielhaus audiences who will be able to say “I was there”. As […]

Every season the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden offers a fine Whitsun Festival. In its 25th year, it has chosen Richard Wagner and two prominent but unexpected conductors. Teodor Currentzis and Pablo Heras-Casado (with Alexandre Kantorow) will pay tribute to the master, while Sonya Yoncheva, Andreas Schager, Fazıl Say and Patricia Kopatchinskaja will be featured in other events. […]

After performing the premiere of an Aucoin, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky and Verdi concert at Carnegie Hall in New York (22 June 2023), Yannick Nézet-Séguin is taking his orchestra to Europe. The Met Orchestra is expected to perform on 27 June 2023 at the Philharmonie de Paris and on 2 July at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with soprano […]

The Berliner Philharmoniker, which is in residence in Baden-Baden every season for the famous Osterfestspiele, has announced some changes in the programme for the tenth edition, which will be held from 1 to 10 April 2023. Richard Strauss’s opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, which is at the heart of the season, requires a large number […]

While her very first solo recording (of Rachmaninov’s songs with pianist Lukas Geniušas) is to be released on 25 March 2022, Asmik Grigorian already has numerous recording projects with the Alpha Classics label, such as Shostakovich’s 14th with Matthias Goerne and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, both works with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted […]