The third week of the festival is dedicated to dance: Sasha Waltz & Guests will perform the choreographic opera »Dido and Aeneas« on May 20, 21 and 22 May at the Forum am Schlosspark. Tabea Booz & Band will this Friday at 6 p.m. at »Frei Luft Musik« at the Ludwigsburg marketplace. Another open-air concert will take place on Saturday, May 21 at 8 p.m. with the Kronos Quartet at the Festspielzentrum. Bach’s »Art of the Fugue« will be performed by the young pianist Filippo Gorini at 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 22.

Tickets for your favorite events can be purchased at the box office in the Forum am Schlosspark or at the red square kiosk »k67« in the Festival Center, which is open Thursdays to Sundays from 16:00 to 20:30. We are pleased about your visit!

We are pleased to present our complete program for the 2022 season, which is now on pre-sale. With 80 events and over 50 productions in the period from May 5 to July 16, the Schlossfestspiele Schlossfestspiele is entering the tenth decade of its existence. Here you can find the program calendar with ticket sales.

With The new Corona Ordinance of the State of Baden-Württemberg of April 3, 2022. the previous contact restrictions at cultural events will fall. Since we care about your health, we would like to encourage you to continue to wear a medical mouth and nose covering indoors. In order to ensure the safest possible attendance at events, we also ask that you observe general hygiene rules such as sneezing and coughing etiquette, and, if possible, to keep a distance of 1.50 meters from other guests and our staff, and in the event of symptoms of illness such as fever, cold, cough, etc. to stay at home . Thank you for your support!

 Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy or rather Jean Rivier? On May 26 and 27, the choice is yours! For »À la carte« the Mandelring Quartet has selected nine works that were not only groundbreaking in the history of the string quartet, but also represent key works in its long success story. In three rounds you can choose between three works at a time. In preparation, you can now listen to the audio samples that compiled by Mandelring violist Andreas Willwohl on our Digital Stage. Pick your favorites and vote on May 26 or 27!

It's that time again: once again this year, the cour d'honneur of the Ludwigsburg Palace forms the heart of the Ludwigsburg Festival and attracts visitors with its free offer to experience concerts live via audio transmission. Amidst a circle of loudspeakers – the d&b audio sound circle – you can let yourself be surrounded by sound from 5 May to 5 June. 

In the spirit of a »Festival of the Arts, Democracy and Sustainability« and also in the spirit of Joseph Beuys' proclamation »Everyone is an artist«, all Ludwigsburg residents were invited to join in. In this special year of distance, cohesion and the 100th anniversary of Beuys' birth, the Ludwigsburg Festival and Brad Hwang jointly recalled the transformative power of social sculpture.

In the 17 colours of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the former overseas container stands out against the castle backdrop in the cour d'honneur and, with its signal colours, invites visitors to meet and playfully engage with the 17 goals. The so-called 17Goals Space will open its container door daily from 5 May to 5 June.

The Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (YsOU) was founded in 2016 on the initiative of the conductor Oksana Lyniv, who opened the 2021 Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele with the Festspiel Overture. Many young musicians of the youth orchestra are still in Ukraine, and the Slovenian Youth Orchestra is raising funds the project »Music for future: Ukraine. Slovenia. Europe« project to raise funds for evacuation, initial humanitarian aid and accommodation for the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. The project relies on the healing power of music. A music camp in Ljubljana offers the opportunity to overcome the horrors of war with the help of music. overcoming the horrors of war with the help of music. In addition, musical education can be safely continued at this location with daily lessons and joint concerts. with daily lessons and joint concerts can be continued. Here you can go directly to the donation page.

Since the rigged presidential elections in August 2020, Belarus has been in a state of emergency. The regime has reacted with unrestrained use of force to peaceful protests in which countrymen demand fair elections, but also many other basic rights that have been restricted for years. Among the protesters are the sisters' Maria Kalesnikava and Tatsiana Khomich. Jochen Sandig met the latter for an interview this year.

It is actually a very nice tradition when artists are presented with flowers at the end of a concert. In the spirit of sustainability, however, we would like to express our gratitude in the long term and instead of bouquets we give away certificates of tree and flower meadow sponsorships.

On World Environment Day, we, the Ludwigsburg Festival, would like to report on our own contribution to a climate-neutral and sustainable cultural landscape in the narrow sense and to the implementation of the 17 goals in the broad sense. It is very important to us to keep an eye on the effects of our institutional actions, to check them and to constantly improve them.