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The 2025 Dresdner Musikfestspiele celebarte the “LOVE” of music

The Dresdner Musikfestspiele is dedicating its program 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 edition of the festival and, in times of social upheaval 20 years after the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche, wants to send a message of understanding to the world through music.

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 pop singer Ronan Keating to the concert performance of Richard Wagner's “Siegfried” in a historical reading with the Dresdner Festivalorchester and Concerto Köln under the baton 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 May 9, 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.

“We focus on love as a response to hatred, violence and indifference. Join us in discovering messages in music that can be an aid to life,” says Jan Vogler, Director of the Dresden Music Festival.

Festival audiences 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 Gothenburg 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. Choreographer icon Sasha Waltz and “Revolta” pay tribute to their love of dance. In the field of jazz and pop, two multi-faceted artists of the next generation take to the stage: Japanese pianist Hiromi and jazz singer and composer Alma Naidu.

In contrast, there will be a variety of formats for everyone in the coming year, such as the traditional “Dresden sings & makes music”, the “Sounding City” or a sing-along concert by the Dresden Kreuzchor, which will feature the “Mozart Requiem”. The Dresdner Festspielorchester invites you to a concert for everyone with the Verdi Requiem. The Dresdner Musikfestspiele's first encounter with contemporary circus theater in the tent on the banks of the Elbe in collaboration with the Societaetstheater Dresden will be a premiere.

Tickets are available:

  • by mail: Dresdner Musikfestspiele/Customer Service, P. O. Box 10 04 53, 01074 Dresden
  • by email: besucherservice@musikfestspiele.com
  • online: www.musikfestspiele.com
  • by phone: +49 (0)351 – 656 06 700
  • at the Ticket Service at the Kulturpalast Dresden, Schloßstraße 2, 01067 Dresden