Easter Festival Baden-Baden 2025

Farewell and return

13 years of the Baden-Baden Easter Festival – what a ride! All we can say is: Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts!

Up close

The Baden-Baden Easter Festival offers more than grand opera and symphonic evenings at the Festspielhaus – the Berliner Philharmoniker can also be experienced in more intimate settings. In various venues across the city, different ensembles present carefully-curated chamber music programmes.

Bye bye, Baden-Baden

Musical highlights, unforgettable encounters, and breathtaking nature – members of the Berliner Philharmoniker look back on their most cherished memories from 13 years of the Baden-Baden Easter Festival.

Joy, beautiful spark of divinity

Beethoven’s Ninth has accompanied the Berliner Philharmoniker since the orchestra’s earliest days – through times of change and new beginnings. Last night, it was back on the programme: as the festive conclusion to the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden.

5 questions for ... Klaus Mäkelä

In our video, the conductor reveals which composer he’d rather drink beer with – and which symphony is his ultimate guilty pleasure.

Between mountains of sheet music, hole punchers, and piano scores

In the weeks leading up to the Easter Festival, the staff of our music library have been tirelessly ploughing through the parts of Richard Strauss’ “Elektra” with a sharp pencil. We visited our colleagues shortly before their departure.

Symphonic lighthouse

Beethoven’s Ninth and the Berliner Philharmoniker: a retrospective

#SharingMusic

From pop-up concerts in unexpected places to opera projects for kids – our education team is busy throughout Baden-Baden!

Behind the music: Eleonora Buratto and Jonathan Tetelman

What is involved in being Butterfly and Pinkerton️? What sort of demands do these roles make on singers? And how does it feel to perform with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko?

A dialogue between piano and orchestra

Yesterday, our Artist in Residence Seong-Jin Cho received rapturous applause from the audience in Baden-Baden for his performance Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, conducted by Jakub Hrůša. Also enthusiastically applauded: Janáček’s Osud Suite and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

Grand opera with goosebumps

The premiere of “Madama Butterfly” at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden

Richard Strauss’s “An Alpine Symphony”

Introduction to a monumental work. The Alpine Symphony, which was written between 1911 and 1915, is indeed huge.

Opera Up Close

How are the sets created? What costumes do the singers wear? Are there any special props? And what surprises await the audience? Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the Easter Festival 2025.

The sound of an outcry

Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” is not just the story of an abandoned woman; it is also about the clash between different cultures and imperialist exploitation.

“Every day with this orchestra is special”

Kirill Petrenko talks about his work with the Berliner Philharmoniker