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A festival of music and togetherness: the Winter Festival invites you to slow down and take a break. Create new memories with family and friends, be inspired by outstanding artists, and enjoy a festive time in the Festspielhaus. The pre-Christmas-themed program offers many opportunities to offer a gift to yourself and others.
A triad for Christmas: with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Mozart's Magic Flute, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio, we truly can’t wait for the big holiday. The Winter Festival invites us to stop and reflect – and awakens collective memories: of our first Magic Flute with our grandparents, of the "ahs" and "ohs" on seeing the White Act in Swan Lake, of going to church to hear Bach's festive oratorio. Create new and fresh memories with your friends, children, and grandchildren! We are supplying the very best artists: the National Ballet Bratislava with Nureyev's virtuoso version of Swan Lake in a magnificent staging. It will be followed by Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra, ensuring the highest quality and a musical voice all their own. All splendid gift ideas – help yourself!
About the Festival Baden-Baden
Festspiel Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden Festival) is a series of festivals presented by the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in Baden-Baden, Germany. The programme is structured around five annual festival periods dispersed throughout the year. The Easter, Whitsun, Summer, Autumn and Winter Festivals each incorporate at least one opera production and several classical concerts.
A typical year contains four festivals of one week each:
Autumn Festival in early October.
Winter Festival from mid-January.
Easter Festival during Holy Week.
Herbert von Karajan Whitsun Festival in late May to early June.
Summer Festival from early July.
Major opera productions at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden to date include La traviata (Valery Gergiev, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2001), Fidelio (Simone Young, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2002), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Marc Minkowski, conductor / Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps, directors, 2003), The Ring of the Nibelung (Valery Gergiev, musical direction and concept / George Tsypin, stage design, 2003/2004), Rigoletto (Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2004), Parsifal (Kent Nagano, conductor / Nikolaus Lehnhoff, director, 2004) and Die Zauberflöte (Claudio Abbado, conductor / Daniele Abbado, director, 2005).
