Opening Gala: Music meets humor - Schedule, Program & Tickets

In keeping with the motto, the Dresden Music Festival opens its 49th festival season with a special program dedicated to the "LIGHTNESS OF BEING". Because going to a concert doesn't have to be a serious thing - or does it? It is precisely this delightful tension between humorous lightness and artistic seriousness that makes the opening evening so unique. The "miracle in a jumper" provides the cheerful counterbalance: Olaf Schubert, master of subtle (Saxon) laughter culture, leads through the evening with his unmistakable mixture of irony and charm. On the musical side are cellist and festival director Jan Vogler, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and its principal guest conductor Tabita Berglund. Together, they will present a program full of contrasts: from Weber's sparkling "Oberon" overture to Henri Dutilleux's cello concerto and Mussorgsky's imaginative "Pictures at an Exhibition". Dutilleux's work, composed after poems by Baudelaire, is considered unique: it combines inner depth with poetic lightness in a way that has never been achieved in any other piece for cello and orchestra - an opening gala that combines wit, depth, lightness, seriousness and the diversity of musical forms of expression in one evening.

OLAF SCHUBERT COMEDIAN
JAN VOGLER VIOLONCELLO
DRESDEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
TABITA BERGLUND CONDUCTOR

Carl Maria von Weber Overture to the opera "Oberon"
Henri Dutilleux Concerto for cello and orchestra "Tout un monde lointain ..."
Modest Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition" (orchestral version by Maurice Ravel)

Subject to change without notice.