Final applause(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Easter Festival 2018 in Baden-Baden
The 2018 Easter Festival of the Berliner Philharmoniker in Baden-Baden is built around Richard Wagner’s Parsifal. This masterwork is conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and directed by Dieter Dorn. There are of course also a lot of orchestra concerts, chamber music, a children’s opera, a chamber opera and various musical activities throughout the beautiful town of Baden-Baden. This year also marks the last Easter Festival for Sir Simon Rattle as chief conductor of our orchestra.
Final applause(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Gerald Finley as Amfortas(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Luis Felipe Coelho, 1st violin(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Lunch concert in Berlin...(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Final chord(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Kotowa Machida, violin, Cordelia Höfer, piano, and Götz Teutsch, inventor of the salon and narrator(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
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Stephan Koncz, cello(Photo: Photos Monika Rittershaus)
Ho-Hsuan Feng and Alican Süner, violin, Xingyuan Xu, viola, Simon Eberle, cello, Cristiana Custódio and Christopher Williams, French horn(Photo: Andrea Kremper)
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Moderator and principal double bass: Matthew McDonald(Photo: Photos Monika Rittershaus)
Daishin Kashimoto, violin, Markus Groh, piano, Knut Weber, cello, and Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet(Photo: Photos Andrea Kremper)
Berliner Barocksolisten and Daishin Kashimoto(Photo: Andrea Kremper)
Team meeting with the bosses. Sir Simon and General Manager Andrea Zietzschmann were there despite the weather! (Photo: Photos Stefan Stahnke)
Sir Simon(Photo: Manolopress Michael Bode)
Manfred Preis and Holm Birkholz on sound expedition at the Museum Frieder Burda(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Krystian Zimerman and Sir Simon Rattle(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Photos Stefan Stahnke)
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(Photo: Photos Stefan Stahnke)
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Dieter Dorn and his Team(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Ruxandra Donose, Kundry(Photo: Photos Monika Rittershaus)
Baden-Baden Festspielhaus(Photo: Photos Monika Rittershaus)
Luis Felipe Coelho, 1st violin(Photo: Photos Monika Rittershaus)
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Wind quintet of the BJO(Photo: Photos Stefan Stahnke)
Marcel Brunner, Knappe, and Alina Wunderlin, Parceval
Rüdiger Liebermann, 1st violin and Stroh violin(Photo: Photos Monika Rittershaus)
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Oliver Jacobs, Podestà, and Victoria Kunze, Sandrina.(Photo: Alle Fotos Monika Rittershaus)
Simon Rössler conducts our Karajan-Akademie
Laurentiu Dinca, first violin, observes percussionist Simon Rössler studying his score.(Photo: Photos Monika Rittershaus)
Martin von der Nahmer, viola, and Christoph von der Nahmer, violin, explain the differences of their instruments.(Photo: Photos: Monika Rittershaus)
Sir Simon talking to first concertmasters Daniel Stabrawa and Noah Bendix-Balgley and first principal cellist Ludwig Quandt
Sir Simon
Simon Rössler 
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Madeleine Carruzzo, 1st violin