Rolando Villazon, Ying Fang, Fatma Said, Benjamin Appl & Lea Desandre Lead Dresdner Musikfestspiele’s 2025 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Dresdner Musikfestspiele has announced the 2025 season with the theme of “LOVE.” For this article, we will focus on the vocal performances.
Fabio Luisi NHK Symphony Orchestra is set to join perform Haydn and Mahler with Ying Fang and Jan Vogler.
Performance Date: May 18, 2025
The works by Arvo Pärt will be performed by Kadri Toomoja and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tonu Kaljuste.
Performance Date: May 20, 2025
The Sächsisches Vocalensemble performs Bach Motets.
Performance Date: May 25, 2025
Rolando Villazon performs “Viaggio dell’anima,” a journey of the soul, with music by Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries alongside Lautten Company Berlin and Wolfgang Katschner.
Performance Date: May 31, 2025
“Der Ring,” a piece for children based on Richard Wagner’s work, will be performed by the vocal ensemble of the Taschenoper Lübeck and conductor Carl Augustin.
Performance Date: June 1, 2025
Alumni of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and the Dresdner Philharmonie perform Mozart’s “Requiem” with Martin Lehmann conducting.
Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunsford perform “Idyll.” The concert will feature French Love Songs from Three Centuries and works by Barbara, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Claude Debussy, Jacques Offenbach, and Erik Satie, among others.
Benjamin Appl performs “Diese klingende Sündflut” alongside James Baillieu, Barbara Auer, Jens Harzer, and Helmut Butzmann. The evening will include Musical Reading with Texts by Heinrich Heine and Music by Vincenzo Bellini, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Friedrich Silcher, Sigismund Thalberg, Pauline Viardot-García and Richard Wagner.
The festival closes with Wagner’s “Siegfried” starring Kent Nagano conducting a cast that includes Thomas Blondelle, Thomas Ebenstein, Simon Bailey, Daniel Schmutzhard, Hanno Muller-Brachmann, Gerhild Romberger, and Asa Jager.
Performance Date: June 14, 2025
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