Artists & projects

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.

From 13 - 18 January 2025, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester invites to the fourth edition of its piano festival «Le Piano Symphonique». Piano music enthusiasts from all over the world can once again look forward to great artists from the international piano elite at «Le Piano Symphonique» 2025 in Lucerne.

This year's anniversary edition of the Molyvos International Music Festival on the Greek island of Lesvos will take place from 12 - 19 August 2025 under the motto CHAOS - ΧΆΟΣ and marks the 11th anniversary of the festival.

For the first time, a work by Richard Wagner can be experienced at the Opera in the Quarry in summer 2025: The Flying Dutchman. From 9 July to 23 August, the impressive St. Margarethen quarry, one of the most spectacular and beautiful open-air stages in Europe, will be transformed into a dramatic coastal landscape - the setting for an eerily romantic seafaring drama full of longing, storms and redemption. Director Philipp M. Krenn, set designer Momme Hinrichs and conductor Patrick Lange stage this monumental work with an international ensemble as a captivating synthesis of the arts. Great voices, moving music and visual power make for an open-air opera experience - for Wagner connoisseurs as well as anyone who wants to be inspired by musical theatre for the first time.

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.