The fifth festival week has begun! The Mahler Chamber Orchestra concludes its artist residency with the question «How does home sound?«, we accompany Anastasia Kobekina and the Basel Chamber Orchestra on their trip to Venice, and Asmik Grigorian performs a song recital. Also: the «Johannespassion« in Haigerloch and the premiere of «Die schöne Müllerin«, a co-production with the Stuttgart State Opera!

For the 300th anniversary of the »Johannespassion«, we are looking forward to a version that invites you to sing along. Elina Albach's condensation into a solo Passion invites an intensive reflection on the Passion and its setting and makes it an interactive singing experience.

Enjoy great musical moments and unforgettable stage moments on stage at the founding venue of the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival! Also this year Once again this year, we invite you to the historic rooms of the Palace.

Get to know the painter Norbert Bisky in our video interview. Here, he reveals what it means to create a production with contemporary art in a historic theater.

Our residencies offer you the opportunity to experience selected artists on several evenings in Ludwigsburg. In 2024 you can be thrilled by the two ensembles VOCES8 and Mahler Chamber Orchestraas well as the pianist Fazıl Say several times.

What will it be: an open-air concert, chamber music with a small ensemble or a full orchestra? We have the right event in our program for every taste, to sing along and to discover. Our concert compass will help you find your way!

To mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic in 2023, Fazıl Say composed a song cycle inspired by female poets who experienced the experienced the country’s developments at different times. Their texts about pain, oppression, the forces of nature and personal difficulties, but also of hope for a better tomorrow. On International Women’s Day, we are taking a closer look at this feminist program and at eleven courageous women who not only defy the tight corset of convention, but also write about it. conventions, but also write about it.

You can take part in several projects in the 2024 season. In addition to the regular and recurring participation formats, there are two sing-along projects and a dance-along project for all ages from 12 years upwards. You can find more information about each project on the corresponding production page. Perhaps there is something for you!

The new season's theme is loud and engaging. It envelops our festival programme like a pulsating sound cloud or sound wave. As usual, the characteristic colours of Daniel Wiesmann's new graphic design conceal yet another layer of meaning.

There are sure to be a few question marks before your visit to a concert. What do I want to listen to? What do I have to wear? And how do I behave during the event? Here you can read step by step what you need to know before visiting us – and where your worries may be completely unfounded.

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.

We 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. We have supplemented our interim assessment from 2021 with interim goals achieved and measures introduced in 2022.

How can art and sustainability be designed hand in hand? Read more about the concept of the Ludwigsburg Festival in the article by Engagement Global.