Artists & projects

From 8 – 15 July 2023, the International Chamber Music Festival FLIESSEN, held in Germany's Spree Forest and Lower Lusatia region, will take place for the first time. At the invitation of Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen, top musicians will come together to give a week of concerts. They include Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Julian Steckel, Tobias Feldmann, Alexander Melnikov, Harriet Krijgh and many more.

From 9 to 24 September 2023, internationally renowned artists from a wide range of genres will be performing at the seventh edition of the HERBSTGOLD Festival in Eisenstadt, the capital of Burgenland, Austria. A place of special sounds, artistic performances and a unique setting. The festival motto for 2023 is "Longing".

HIDALGO is Munich's most innovative start-up for classical music. Since 2016 the multi-skilled team passionately ties seemingly contradicting worlds together, creating intense, intoxicating experiences. They produce unique concert events and the yearly HIDALGO Festival for young classical music, which first took place in 2018. It features young, successful artists from all over Europe. It is named after the Lied "Der Hidalgo" by Robert Schumann. According to the magazine "Crescendo," the Festival for young classical musicis one of the "most exciting young and innovative classical music festivals with a focus on Lied in the world." The patron is star baritone Christian Gerhaher.

Winner of the chamber music prize of the German Record Critics’ Award 2021, the Linos Piano Trio returns this year to Cologne to Linos Festival 2022 — “Time”. In three concerts, Linos Festival explores the sense of the past and present in music (Time Machine), music’s healing powers in times of crisis (End of Time), and musical nostalgia (Memories). Two family concerts welcome children to experience a journey into the timeline of chamber music from Hildegard to Messiaen.

The Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) is a unique project in the North Aegean region that brings together the greatest international young talents for a four-day celebration of world- class classical music. The motto of the 2019 edition was "Dia-logos".

n the 2023 season, one of the world's most popular operas will once again transform the St. Margarethen Quarry into a meeting place for music lovers from all over the world: between Hollywood's dream factory and the Spanish Civil War, French director Arnaud Bernard will stage Georges Bizet's Carmen from 12 July - 20 August 2023 under the artistic direction of Daniel Serafin. Star soprano Kristīne Opolais makes an excursion into mezzo with her role debut.

Melanie Diener, the internationally acclaimed soprano from Waiblingen, and the American baritone Thomas Hampson, one of the most legendary singers of our time, have joined with the city of Waiblingen in creating the International Opera Workshop and invite the best young talents to Waiblingen to take part.