Palate of the festivals of Baden-Baden

The palate of the festivals of Baden-Baden ( Festspielhaus Baden-Baden ) is a cultural unit located at Baden-Baden (Germany), conceived by the Austrian architect Wilhelm Holzbauer and inaugurated the April 18th 1998. It integrates more the big room of Concert S and of opera of Germany, with two thousand five hundred places, and the old station of the thermal city, sheltering today the reservation counters and the Aida restaurant.

Conceived to function with private funds, this establishment profited at the beginning from a help from the public authorities, before becoming indeed the first european company of this type to be financed via the private sector. It is a limited liability company ( Gesellschaft put beschränkter Haftung , GMBH) which is managed since March 2000 by the cultural foundation of private law to not-lucrative goal called Kultrustiftung Festspielhaus Baden-Baden ( cultural Fondation of the Palate of the festivals of Baden-Baden ). Thanks to the receipts of ticketting, the gifts and the support of patrons, it functions from now on without any subsidy since beginning 2002. The intendant is Andreas Mölich-Zebhauser.

The programming is organized around four festivals: week of Pentecost, summer, autumn and winter, with each time at least an assembled opera and many traditional concerts. Three or four times per annum, the Palate of the festivals accommodate companies of dance of reputation. Spectacles of entertainment and varieties are in addition proposed with the public.

The Board of directors of the Foundation decrees each year the Price Herbert-von-Karajan. Equipped with fifty thousand euros, it rewards a remarkable personality for the international musical world, which must devote the amount of the price to the promotion of young talents.

In the catalog of the great productions of opera to the Festspielhaus appear:

2001 : Traviata of Made green (musical Direction: Valery Gergiev - Setting in scene: Philippe Arlaud)
2002: Fidelio of Beethoven (musical Direction: Simone Young - Setting in scene: Philippe Arlaud)
2003: Removal with the seraglio of Mozart (musical Direction: Marc Minkowski - Setting in scene: Jerome Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff)
2003 - 2004: the Ring of Nibelung of Wagner (Direction musciale and design: Valery Gergiev - Scenography: George Tsypine)
2004: Rigoletto of Made green (musical Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock - Setting in scene: Philippe Arlaud)
2004: Parsifal of Wagner (musical Direction: Kent Nagano - Setting in scene: Nikolaus Lehnhoff)
2005: the Magic Flute of Mozart (Direction msuciale: Claudio Abbado - Setting in scene: Daniele Abbado)

The Palate of the festivals cooperates regularly with the Théâtre Mariinsky of Saint-Pétersbourg, the International festival of lyric art of Aix-en-Provence, as well as other operas and festivals.

It launched in 2003 a program of initiation and musical animation baptized Kolumbus (to evoke the large discoverer Christophe Colomb), which proposes to make discover the classical music with school and the students thanks to operas, concerts and spectacles of ballets.

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Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

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