EASTER FESTIVAL

BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER APRIL 4– 13 2020

F E S TIVAL HALL BADEN- B A D E N The non-profit Festival Hall Baden-Baden Cultural Foundation was founded in the year 2000 by dedicated music lovers, and has since made possible the private operation of the EASTER Festival Hall Baden-Baden. FESTI VA L OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER Frieder and Elke Burda Klaus and Kirsten Mangold Ladislaus and Annemarie von Ehr Hugo and Rose Mann Wolfgang and Anneliese Grenke Reinhard and Karin Müller APRIL 4–13, 2020 Henriette and Paul Heinze Stiftung Wolfgang and Françoise Müller-Claessen Klaus-Georg Hengstberger Dr. August Oetker KG Klaus and Hella Janson Hans R. Schmid and Mary Victoria Gerardi-Schmid Sigmund and Walburga Maria Kiener Walter Veyhle Horst Kleiner and Isolde Laukien-Kleiner Alberto Vilar Karlheinz and Dagmar Kögel Franz Bernhard and Annette Wagener Ernst H. and Helga Kohlhage Horst and Marlis Weitzmann Richard and Bettina Kriegbaum Beatrice and Götz W. Werner Christine and Klaus-Michael Kühne Ernst-Moritz Lipp and Angelika Lipp-Krüll and four unnamed donors

IN MEMORIAM: THEO AND GABI KUMMER, MARGARETE STIENEN

F E S TIVAL HALL BADEN- B A D E N DEAR FESTIVAL GUESTS,

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday will Tugan Sokhiev, the principal conductor of Mos­ form the focus of the 2020 Baden-Baden Easter cow’s Bolshoi Theater, will be celebrating his de- Festival with the Berliner Philharmoniker. As but in Baden-Baden – a city whose history shares Artistic Director Designate, I would like to wel- so many points in common with both Russian come Kirill Petrenko, the new Chief Conductor culture and the Russian soul. of the Berliner Philharmoniker, in our midst for this edition of the Festival. His Fidelio, in the I am also delighted that Herbert Blomstedt will production by Mateja Koležnik, is certain to re- once again be leading a concert with the Berliner ceive worldwide attention. The fact that Kirill Philharmoniker, in which he will devote him-­ Petrenko has chosen the Missa solemnis as the self to Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, the second major vocal work by Beethoven this “Romantic.” week underscores the message of this year’s Festival: we are celebrating Ludwig van Beet­ For the first time in the orchestra’s history, we will hoven as a visionary and questioner – but also be hearing Ludwig van Beethoven’s complete string as a great European. This is not just a matter quartets in the context of a single festival – a of music history but also, in my view, an im- special gift in a special year. portant attitude. Welcome to the Easter Festival Already in the nineteenth century, Europe found in Baden-Baden! in Baden-Baden a place for thinking, question­ ing, making music, and enjoying. All this will once again be possible during the 2020 Easter Festival. And if we take a closer look at the guest conductors of the Berliner Philharmoniker BENEDIKT STAMPA this year, we also find important links to past and future musical milestones in Baden-Baden.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Elīna Garanča will join the Berliner Philharmoniker in offering a new read­ ing of Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony. The new head of New York’s Metropolitan Opera has already fallen in love with Baden-Baden, and so this concert is also a promise of much to come. PHOTO: CHRISTIAN GRUND CHRISTIAN PHOTO:

2 3 APRIL 4–13, 2020 EASTER FESTIVAL

4 5 When the Berliner Philharmoniker Beethoven’s only opera, the centerpiece celebrate their eighth Easter Festival of this festival, is underpinned by a belief at the Festival Hall Baden-Baden, it will in the future that permeates the music be anything but “more of the same.” from the very first measure. A rhythmic This is because the new Chief Con- pulse that surges forward and at times ductor Kirill Petrenko is now taking nearly causes the orchestra to boil over – the reins, and so the orchestra is shed- in this connection, we must mention IN THEI BEGINNING, ding its skin, as it were. We look back Mateja Koležnik, the Slovenian theater THERE WAS THE PULSE. at past festivals as a precious heritage producer who will be directing this THE FIRST EASTER FESTIVAL UNDER to be both maintained and renewed. Fidelio and who will also be staging KIRILL PETRENKO. Practically speaking, this will be high­ productions soon at the Salzburg Festival lighted in Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, and at Vienna’s Burgtheater. Koležnik’s The excitement is palpable with which Sir Simon Rattle not only trademark is the metronome, which she in anticipation of the first Easter Festival inaugurated his first Easter Festival, but uses herself in her theater rehearsals also con­cluded his last, and which Kirill to play with meters and their effect on of the Berliner Philharmoniker with Petrenko will now also be conducting the actors’ flow of speech. From here its new Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko. during his first Easter Festival. On a side it is not a wide leap to Beethoven’s com­ note, the hammer blow in this sympho­ pact structures, characterized as they The focus will be on both continuity and ny has its counterpart in the trumpet often are by mathematical precision: change, and certainly also invites signal in Beethoven’s Fidelio. In both eight bars are followed by four, then two, comparisons (keyword Mahler). works, it is a signal from outside that then one ... We are expecting much from heralds the turning point: for Beethoven, this director-conductor duo. And we are Beethoven’s Fidelio directed by Slovenian unlike for Mahler, it is a turning point looking forward to Sokhiev’s debut, theater producer Mateja Koležnik for the better. From darkness to light: and naturally also to a reunion with a this central theme, which pervades few of our beloved friends, including promises to be especially compelling. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – Kirill Herbert Blomstedt, Leif Ove Andsnes, Petrenko will be performing the work and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. with the National Youth Orchestra of Germany – also forms the core of the dramaturgy of Fidelio. ILLUSTRATION P. 5: SÉBASTIEN PLASSARD SÉBASTIEN P. 5: ILLUSTRATION

6 7 SAT 4.4.20 FIDELIO 6 PM PREMIERE L. VAN BEETHOVEN TUE 7.4.20 6 PM MON 13.4.20 Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko 6 PM New production by Mateja Koležnik

The first opera with the new Chief Conductor BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER Don’t let yourself get too comfortable! For Beethoven, only KIRILL PETRENKO MUSIC DIRECTOR persistence, struggle, hope, and achievement seemed worthy MATEJA KOLEŽNIK of art. Overcoming the laxness of habit and forcing oneself PRODUCER to adopt form, the conscious life, to utter the tremendous RAIMUND ORFEO VOIGT SET DESIGNER “it can be otherwise”: this is what makes Fidelio so recogniz­ ALAN HRANITELJ ably – unmistakably – a work that could only have been written COSTUME DESIGNER by Beethoven. The symphonic impulse that boldly drives MATIJA FERLIN CHOREOGRAPHER Beethoven’s music forward would exert a decisive influence

on Wagner. Fidelio has always been most performed and MARLIS PETERSEN understood in times of transition when something important LEONORE HANNA-ELISABETH was involved. With this in mind, Kirill Petrenko will be inaugu­ MÜLLER MARCELLINA rating his operatic collaboration with the Berliner Philhar­ PETER ROSE ROCCO moniker in Baden-Baden with Beethoven’s only opera. The WOLFGANG KOCH DON PIZARRO production will also mark a new beginning in the hands of MATTHEW POLENZANI KIRILL PETRENKO multi-award-winning Slovenian director Mateja Koležnik: FLORESTAN Kirill Petrenko is Chief the next step on a path taken with deliberation. TAREQ NAZMI Conductor of the Berliner DON FERNANDO Philharmoniker and will be In German with German and English supertitles. PAUL SCHWEINESTER leading the Easter opera JAQUINO, GUARD productions in Baden- CHORWERK RUHR Baden in the coming years. (CHORUS MASTER: MICHAEL ALBER) PRICES IN EUROS: | | | | | | | 59 89 144 199 233 270 295 360 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN REDUCED: FIDELIO – OPERA IN TWO 54 | 84 | 139 | 194 | 223 | 260 | 285 | 350 ACTS TO A LIBRETTO BY PERFORMANCE ENDS: AROUND 8:50 PM SONN­LEITHNER, BREUNING SEATING PLAN A AND TREITSCHKE

PHOTO: MONIKA RITTERSHAUS PHOTO: FESTIVAL HALL EXPRESS

8 9 MATEJA KOLEŽNIK RAIMUND ORFEO Production VOIGT The Slovenian director Set Designer won the Nestroy Award After studying in the mas- in 2018 for her production ter class of Erich Wonder of Chekhov’s “Ivanov.” in Vienna, Raimund Orfeo Since 2012 she has also Voigt worked as assistant enjoyed success in the to his former teacher as German-speaking world well as to Robert Wilson. with works at the Munich He has designed sets for Residenztheater, Theater the Bayerische Staatsoper, in der Josefstadt Wien, Salzburg Festival, and and Schau­spiel Stuttgart. Berliner Ensemble.

MATTHEW POLENZANI PETER ROSE Florestan Rocco The American lyric tenor Since his debut at Glynde­ began his career at the bourne in 1986, the English opera studio of the Lyric bass has sung the great Opera of Chicago. He has roles of his field on major since conquered the opera stages throughout the stages of New York, Milan, world. At the Festival Hall Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Baden-Baden, he has ap- Munich, and Salzburg, peared in Easter Festival and has sung in over productions as Messner 300 performances at in Puccini’s “Tosca” and New York’s Met alone. as Ochs in Strauss’s “Rosenkavalier.”

HANNA-ELISABETH WOLFGANG KOCH MÜLLER Don Pizarro Marcellina The foundation of the The soprano studied with baritone’s career is the MARLIS PETERSEN Rudolf Piernay, Dietrich great Wagner roles, includ­ Leonore Fischer-Dieskau, Julia Varady, ing Hans Sachs, Telra- Her 2002 debut as Lulu in Vienna and Thomas Hampson. mund, and Wotan, which helped launch the versatile soprano’s She gave her debut as he has sung at the Wiener career. She has since been heard Marzelline at the Met in Staatsoper, Bayerische around the world in exciting music New York and has been Staatsoper, and at Covent theater productions. Petersen thrilled a guest at the Salzburg Garden. He has also cele- audiences at the Festival Hall Festival and at Milan’s brated major successes at Baden-Baden in 2017 as Leonore La Scala. the Salzburg Festival and in a performance of the original

in Bayreuth. MAVROPOULOS YIORGOS RIGHT: GONZ, PR; PR PHOTO CHRIS COCHRANE, PAUL FOX, FAY ALEXANDER REICHARDT, JOERG THOMAS DASHUBER, LEFT: PHOTOS version of Beethoven’s opera.

10 11 TUGAN SUN 5.4.20 SOKHIEV 6 PM

Berliner Philharmoniker

A Festival Hall debut among friends TUGAN SOKHIEV CONDUCTOR How an orchestra and conductor successfully come together CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF VIOLIN is one of the unsolved mysteries of music. Tugan Sokhiev and BERLINER the Berliner Philharmoniker are united by a musical friendship PHILHARMONIKER that is characterized by precisely this ease and facility. When LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN it clicks, the audience can also feel it immediately – as can the “CORIOLAN” - professional critics. The latter were captivated when the music OVERTURE IN C MINOR, OP. 62 director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, in his inimitable way, FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY led the Philharmoniker in a performance of Pictures at an VIOLIN CONCERTO Exhibition. While most conductors perform Mendelssohn IN E MINOR, OP. 64 with a simple wink of the eye, Sokhiev paints entire cascades MODEST MUSSORGSKY PICTURES AT of sound, like a pantomime in the air. A Festival Hall debut! AN EXHIBITION (ORCHESTRATION: MAURICE RAVEL)

PRICES IN EUROS: 29 | 55 | 84 | 115 | 139 | 160 | 170 | 210 REDUCED: 24 | 49 | 79 | 110 | 129 | 150 | 160 | 200 PERFORMANCE ENDS: AROUND 7:45 PM SEATING PLAN A

PHOTO: STEPHAN RABOLD STEPHAN PHOTO: FESTIVAL HALL EXPRESS

12 13 KIRILL PETRENKO MON G. MAHLER: 6.4.20 SYMPHONY NO. 6 6 PM

Berliner Philharmoniker

Music for the future SPONSORED BY: RICHARD AND BETTINA Each Mahler symphony has its own physiognomy. The Sixth KRIEGBAUM has always been called the “Tragic,” even by the composer KIRILL PETRENKO himself, but this term diminishes the work. Here, as always CONDUCTOR with Mahler, we find ourselves before an entire cosmos. BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER The first movement alone, with its pomp-filled marches, its

cowbell idyll, and, of course, the famous theme that portrays GUSTAV MAHLER Mahler’s wife Alma – not at all tragic by the way, but strong, SYMPHONY NO. 6 IN A MINOR sumptuous, forward-striving, and happy. How to encapsulate all of this? In Mahler’s music, it is possible. When the Berliner Philharmoniker performs this Sixth Symphony under its Chief Conductor, it will be with the awareness that the symphony held a special place for Sir Simon Rattle. It was with this work that Rattle began and concluded his tenure with the orches­ tra – both times, incidentally, in Baden-Baden. The symphony thus comes with a history that will now be revived, carried further, and, by nature, overwritten by Kirill Petrenko.

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PHOTO: STEFAN HÖDERATH STEFAN PHOTO: FESTIVAL HALL EXPRESS

14 15 KIRILL PETRENKO FRI L. VAN BEETHOVEN: 10.4.20 MISSA SOLEMNIS 6 PM

Berliner Philharmoniker

My greatest work SPONSORED BY: HORST KLEINER AND Beethoven called it his “greatest work,” and the listener truly ISOLDE LAUKIEN-KLEINER needs to bring along a good set of equipment in order to con- KIRILL PETRENKO front the Missa solemnis. This includes enthusiasm for the CONDUCTOR bold and rigorous – even with all the overcoming of obstacles HANNA-ELISABETH MÜLLER one is accustomed to with Beethoven. The Missa is one of SOPRANO those works that require you to raise yourself to their height. OKKA VON DER DAMERAU Here the air is very thin – a fitting image, incidentally, to give MEZZO-SOPRANO MATTHEW POLENZANI an idea of the demands that Beethoven makes of his singers. TENOR Here the composer created music for the mankind of the future. TAREQ NAZMI Interesting parallels with architecture can be found during BASS CHORWERK RUHR the same period: monumental “cathedrals of humanity” on paper (CHORUS MASTER: that could not yet be technically realized at the time around MICHAEL ALBER) 1800. Perhaps now, 200 years later, we have progressed enough BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER so that we are ready for the Missa? Its difficulties (breakneck

fugues) are as feared as its beauties (the violin solo that LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN portrays the coming of the Holy Spirit) are famous. MISSA SOLEMNIS IN D MAJOR, OP. 123

In Latin with German and English supertitles.

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16 17 YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN SAT G. MAHLER: 11.4.20 SYMPHONY NO. 3 6 PM

Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano

Mahler’s monumental symphony with a star cast SPONSORED BY: WOLFGANG GRENKE Those who talk about “less is more” aren’t familiar with Gustav YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN Mahler. With his Third, he wrote not only the world’s longest CONDUCTOR symphony (aside from monuments of undiscovered geniuses ELĪNA GARANČA lying dormant in archives), but also supplied it with a decidedly MEZZO-SOPRAN0 AURELIUS confident program: the origin of the world. A primordial be- SÄNGERKNABEN CALW ginning is followed by a portrayal of plants, animals, humans, FRAUEN DES and angels – and at the end love prevails. Simply put, this CHORWERK RUHR (CHORUS MASTER: symphony is about … everything. A rich and fascinating work MICHAEL ALBER) that also provides a wonderful introduction to Mahler’s uni- BERLINER verse – especially with the “more is more” cast with which PHILHARMONIKER we are presenting it today. The alto solo that announces, in GUSTAV MAHLER the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, the presence of man will be SYMPHONY NO. 3 D MINOR sung by none other than Elīna Garanča. And the fact that the Berliner Philharmoniker will be performing under Yannick Nézet-Séguin testifies to the artist’s exceptional status among the younger generation of conductors.

In German with German and English supertitles. REVIVE /

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18 19 HERBERT BLOMSTEDT SUN A. BRUCKNER: 12.4.20 SYMPHONY NO. 4 6 PM

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano

Avowal of faith SPONSORED BY: RUDOLF-AUGUST Conductor Sergiu Celibidache trained in meditation in order to OETKER-STIFTUNG help him with Bruckner’s long symphonic lines. His colleague HERBERT BLOMSTEDT Günter Wand immersed himself throughout his whole life in CONDUCTOR questions of tempo – and we must also add a third, Herbert LEIF OVE ANDSNES PIANO Blomstedt, who in Bruckner’s melodies (like the horn call of BERLINER the Fourth Symphony) always seeks an additional, a metaphysi- PHILHARMONIKER cal dimension. Blomstedt describes himself as religious, which WOLFGANG becomes something like an artistic credo with regard to Bruck- AMADEUS MOZART ner. And for the conductor it is not a matter of dogma, but of PIANO CONCERTO NO. 22 cherished custom to combine Bruckner with Mozart in concert IN E-FLAT MAJOR ANTON BRUCKNER programs. Mozart’s Piano Concerto, K. 482 and Bruckner’s SYMPHONY NO. 4 Fourth Symphony are both in the same key of E-flat major, and IN E-FLAT MAJOR they both feature C minor slow movements of great depth. Leif “ROMANTIC” Ove Andsnes shares Blomstedt’s spiritual approach to music. With nothing left to chance, everything is an avowal of faith.

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20 21 KIRILL PETRENKO For the youngest, only the best MON 13.4.20, CONDUCTOR ALBRECHT MAYER One of the Easter Festival’s long-standing 11 AM OBOE AND DIRECTOR traditions is the collaboration between NATIONAL YOUTH the Berliner Philharmoniker and the ORCHESTRA OF GERMANY National Youth Orchestra of Germany. KIRILL PETRENKO MEMBERS OF THE Here the young musicians are mentored AND THE BERLINER by members of the Berliner Philhar­ NATIONAL YOUTH PHILHARMONIKER moniker and have the opportunity at the end to present themselves to the Baden- ORCHESTRA JOSEPH HAYDN Baden audience – under the baton of OF GERMANY CONCERTO FOR OBOE AND none other than Chief Conductor Kirill ORCHESTRA IN C MAJOR Petrenko himself. For his premiere with Albrecht Mayer, LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN the young artists, Petrenko has chosen Oboe and Director SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN C MINOR, OP. 67 a piece in keeping with the other high- lights of this year’s festival program: the most famous classical orchestral PRICES IN EUROS: work of them all, Beethoven’s revolu­- 40 | 50 | 60 REDUCED: tio­nary Fifth Symphony. 35 | 45 | 55 PERFORMANCE ENDS: SUN 5.4.20, Freedom, dignity, and the future SPONSORED BY: AROUND 12:15 PM T. VON ZASTROW BÉNAZETSAAL, FOUNDATION 3:30 PM In the Baden town of Renchen, Baroque KURHAUS poet Johann Jacob Christoph von Grim­ THU 9.4.20, MICHAEL HASEL melshausen wrote one of the most 8:30 PM MUSIC DIRECTOR important novels of his era: Simplicius EVA-MARIA HÖCKMAYR SAT 11.4.20, Simplicissimus. The adventures of the DIRECTOR 3:30 PM eponymous hero during the time of the VOCAL SOLOISTS Thirty Years’ War make us reflect on such FROM BADEN- WÜRTTEMBERG’S MUSIC themes as humanity and oppression. UNIVERSITIES SIMPLICIUS In 1948, when Germany was reinventing MEMBERS OF THE SIMPLICISSIMUS itself, Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s opera BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER K. A. HARTMANN of the same name was heard for the first time. For the Easter Festival, the “three Opera and youth project scenes from his youth” – the work’s A COOPERATION subtitle – will be presented in a new OF THE FESTIVAL HALL production in which young people BADEN-BADEN, BERLINER PHILHAR­ themselves will be seen on the stage. PRICES IN EUROS: 25 MONIKER, AND After all, questions about human dig­ PERFORMANCE ENDS: THEATER BADEN-BADEN AROUND 5 | 10 PM nity can never be answered too early.

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22 23 THE EASTERT FESTIVAL CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAM WILL BE DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO BEETHOVEN.

The nineteenth century was not yet ready for the best of Beethoven. It was only the modern musical era that would find its way to his late string quartets. During a Beethoven marathon at the Easter Festival, the timelessness of all 16 quartets will highlight the string formations of the Berliner Philharmoniker – along with other chamber music by the composer. BEETHOVEN-HAUS BONN BEETHOVEN-HAUS / PHOTO: AKG-IMAGES PHOTO:

24 25 BEETHOVEN’S CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE EASTER FESTIVAL

SUN 5.4.20, 11 AM SUN 5.4.20, 9:30 PM TUE 7.4.20, 12:30 PM WED 8.4.20, 3:30 PM

THE PHILHARMONIC SALON: BEETHOVEN CHAMBER MUSIC II BEETHOVEN CHAMBER MUSIC IV CHAMBER MUSIC AT LA8 II BEETHOVEN Museum Frieder Burda, Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus W. Rihm: Fremde Szene 1 for piano trio Orangerie, Brenners Park-Hotel including pre-concert tour at 8:30 PM Sextet in E-flat major, op. 81b K. A. Hartmann: cantata for soprano and piano GÖTZ TEUTSCH CONCEPT AND DIRECTOR Septet in E-flat major, op. 20 STEFAN DOHR, SARAH WILLIS HORN W. Henze: chamber sonata for piano trio CORDELIA HÖFER PIANO SCHAROUN ENSEMBLE CORNELIA GARTEMANN, FEININGER TRIO MEMBERS OF THE BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER CHRISTOPH VON DER NAHMER VIOLIN JULIANE BANSE SOPRANO JULIA GARTEMANN VIOLA MON 6.4.20, 3:30 PM SUN 5.4.20, 2 PM MARTIN MENKING CELLO WED 8.4.20, 9 PM CHAMBER MUSIC AT LA8 I Three duets BEETHOVEN CHAMBER MUSIC I ALEXANDER BADER CLARINET LATE NIGHT: BOLERO BERLIN Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus K. A. Hartmann: string quartet no. 1 “Carillon” STEFAN SCHWEIGERT BASSOON Casino Baden-Baden A. Webern: Langsamer Satz Quintet in E-flat major, op. 16 MARTIN STEGNER VIOLA J. Suk: string quartet no. 2, op. 31 JONATHAN KELLY OBOE TUE 7.4.20, 2 PM MANFRED PREIS SAXOPHONE ALEXANDER BADER CLARINET PHILHARMONIC STRING QUARTET RAPHAEL HAEGER PIANO DORIAN XHOXHI VIOLIN SARAH WILLIS HORN BEETHOVEN CHAMBER MUSIC V ESKO LAINE BASS STEFAN SCHWEIGERT BASSOON HELENA MADOKA BERG VIOLIN HELMUT NIEBERLE GUITAR Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus ÖZGÜR AYDIN PIANO KYOUNGMIN PARK VIOLA DANIEL GIOIA PERCUSSION ARTHUR HORNIG CELLO Trio in C major, op. 87 Trio in G major Variations in C major on “Là ci darem la mano” EMMANUEL PAHUD FLUTE TUE 7.4.20, 11 AM from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni STEFAN SCHWEIGERT BASSOON ÖZGÜR AYDIN PIANO JONATHAN KELLY, ANDREAS WITTMANN OBOE BEETHOVEN CHAMBER MUSIC III DOMINIK WOLLENWEBER ENGLISH HORN Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus Piano trio in B major, op. 11 “Gassenhauer” Octet in E-flat major, op. 103 “Parthia” ALEXANDER BADER CLARINET Rondino in E-flat major RICHARD DUVEN CELLO LEONIE RETTIG PIANO Sextet in E-flat major, op. 71 BLÄSER DER BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER JONATHAN KELLY, ANDREAS WITTMANN OBOE ALEXANDER BADER, WALTER SEYFARTH CLARINET STEFAN SCHWEIGERT, MOR BIRON BASSOON ANDREJ ŽUST, SARAH WILLIS HORN MARTIN HEINZE BASSOON

PRICES IN EUROS: 25 | REDUCED: 21 OPEN SEATING

26 27 EASTER FESTIVAL STRING QUARTET MARATHON

FRI 10.4.20, 1 PM FRI 10.4.20, 4 PM SUN 12.4.20, 1 PM MON 13.4.20, 1 PM

STRING QUARTETS I STRING QUARTETS III STRING QUARTETS V STRING QUARTETS VII Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus F major, op. 18, no. 1 A major, op. 18, no. 5 E-flat major, op. 74 “Harp” C-sharp minor, op. 131 HELENA MADOKA BERG, BETTINA SARTORIUS VIOLIN ATHENÄUM-QUARTETT PHILHARMONIC STRING QUARTET ALEKSANDAR IVIĆ, ANNA MEHLIN VIOLIN MARTIN STEGNER VIOLA LAURENTIUS DINCA, STEPHAN SCHULZE VIOLIN DORIAN XHOXHI, HELENA MADOKA BERG VIOLIN SEBASTIAN KRUNNIES VIOLA YUMINO WEBER CELLO WALTER KÜSSNER VIOLA KYOUNGMIN PARK VIOLA SOLÈNE KERMARREC CELLO CHRISTOPH IGELBRINK CELLO ARTHUR HORNIG CELLO G major, op. 18, no. 2 VENUS ENSEMBLE B-flat major, op. 18, no. 6 F minor, op. 95 “Serioso” MON 13.4.20, 2.30 PM KOTOWA MACHIDA, RACHEL SCHMIDT VIOLIN CHRISTOPH VON DER NAHMER, ANNA MEHLIN VIOLIN APOS QUARTET JULIA GARTEMANN VIOLA KYOUNGMIN PARK VIOLA ZOLTÁN ALMÁSI, RAIMAR ORLOVSKY VIOLIN STRING QUARTETS VIII SOLÈNE KERMARREC CELLO NIKOLAUS RÖMISCH CELLO JOAQUÍN RIQUELME GARCÍA VIOLA Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus OLAF MANINGER CELLO A minor, op. 132 FRI 10.4.20, 2:30 PM SAT 11.4.20, 2 PM E-flat major, op. 127 DANIEL STABRAWA, KRZYSZTOF POLONEK VIOLIN AMIHAI GROSZ VIOLA NOAH BENDIX-BALGLEY, LUIS ESNAOLA VIOLIN STRING QUARTETS II DIETMAR SCHWALKE CELLO STRING QUARTETS IV AMIHAI GROSZ VIOLA Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus “RASUMOWSKY” CELLO STEPHAN KONCZ F major, op. 135 D major, op. 18, no. 3 Runder Saal, Kurhaus NOAH BENDIX-BALGLEY, MARLENE ITO VIOLIN CHRISTOPH VON DER NAHMER, F major, op. 59, no. 1 SUN 12.4.20, 4 PM NAOKO SHIMIZU VIOLA CORNELIA GARTEMANN VIOLIN CHRISTOPHE HORÁK, SIMON ROTURIER VIOLIN KNUT WEBER CELLO JULIA GARTEMANN VIOLA MICHA AFKHAM VIOLA STRING QUARTETS VI MARTIN MENKING CELLO BRUNO DELEPELAIRE CELLO Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus C minor, op. 18, no. 4 E minor, op. 59, no. 2 B-flat major, op. 130 BORCHARD QUARTETT BRAHMS ENSEMBLE VARIAN FRY QUARTET AMADEUS HEUTLING, RAIMAR ORLOVSKY VIOLIN RACHEL SCHMIDT, RAIMAR ORLOVSKY VIOLIN PHILIPP BOHNEN, MARLENE ITO VIOLIN MATTHEW HUNTER VIOLA JULIA GARTEMANN VIOLA MARTIN VON DER NAHMER VIOLA DIETMAR SCHWALKE CELLO CHRISTOPH IGELBRINK CELLO RACHEL HELLEUR-SIMCOCK CELLO

C major, op. 59, no. 3 Grosse Fuge in B-flat major, op. 133 CORNELIA GARTEMANN, SIMON ROTURIER VIOLIN MARZONA QUARTET JULIA GARTEMANN VIOLA LUÍZ FÏLÍP COELHO, ROMANO TOMMASINI VIOLIN WOLFGANG TALIRZ VIOLA PRICES IN EUROS: 25 | REDUCED: 21 LUDWIG QUANDT CELLO DAVID RINIKER CELLO OPEN SEATING STRING QUARTET MARATHON PASS FOR ALL EIGHT CONCERTS PRICES IN EUROS: 140

28 29 OUR SPRING RESIDENCE

TRAVELING TO THE EASTER FESTIVAL APRIL 3– 14, 2020

We bring you close to the music – leave the organization to us! Our cultural tours combine group visits to Festival Hall events with exclusive cultural workshops as well as enjoyable excursions with an expert tour guide – and all this together with people who share an enthusiasm for classical music, art, refined living, and the city of Baden-Baden. We’ll also be happy to book extra nights and visits to other events for you on

PHOTO: THOMAS STRAUB PHOTO: +49-7221-3013-446 or -447.

30 31 YOUR FESTIVAL HALL PACKAGE

A simple call is enough – we will be delighted to GOLD PACKAGE organize your stay in Baden-Baden. You’re traveling Two nights with breakfast, four-course gala meal at to Baden-Baden for a Festival Hall event? Book one the AIDA restaurant (created by Harald Wohlfahrt), of our Festival Hall packages to go along with your reserved seats for introductory lecture, drink during tickets! You’ll enjoy two nights’ accommodation the intermission, program booklet, cloakroom service, with breakfast in selected hotels plus a number of admission to Museum Frieder Burda, tourist tax. extras. For each Festival Hall event, choose from the following options:

SILVER PACKAGE Two nights with breakfast in selected hotel, inter- mission package, program booklet, cloakroom ser- vice, admission to Museum Frieder Burda, tourist tax.

HOTELS SILVER GOLD

Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa ***** S € 1,190 € 1,490

Roomers Baden-Baden ***** € 650 € 870

Dorint Maison Messmer ***** € 650 € 870

Belle Epoque **** S € 590 € 820

Der Kleine Prinz **** S € 590 € 820

Radisson Blu Badischer Hof **** S € 550 € 770

Magnetberg *** S € 480 € 690

Bad Hotel zum Hirsch **** € 470 € 680

arcona LIVING BATSCHARI 8 **** € 470 € 680

Hotel Holiday Inn Express *** S € 390 € 610

Tickets are not included, single room available upon request THOMAS STRAUB PHOTO:

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BRENNERS PARK-HOTEL & SPA ***** S ROOMERS BADEN-BADEN ***** RADISSON BLU BADISCHER HOF **** S ARCONA LIVING BATSCHARI 8 **** One of the oldest and most sophisticated hotels Baden-Baden’s luxury design hotel right next to Formerly a cloister with a 190-year hotel tradition. This modern hotel stands out through its attrac- in Europe, richly steeped in tradition and located the Festival Hall, with its own lounge/bar/rooftop In some of the guest rooms, thermal waters flow tive location, spacious facilities, and exceptional directly on Lichtentaler Allee. terrace and the pan-Asian restaurant “moriki.” directly into the bath tubs. The only hotel with a amenities. Just 200 m from the Festival Hall. www.brenners.com, www.fritzxfelix.com www.roomers-badenbaden.com thermal swimming pool. www.batschari8.arcona.de www.radissonblu.com/hotel-badenbaden

DORINT MAISON MESSMER ***** BELLE EPOQUE AND HELIOPARK BAD HOTEL HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS *** S A modern deluxe hotel offering an exclusive ambi­ DER KLEINE PRINZ **** S ZUM HIRSCH **** Combining contemporary design with friendly ence and a variety of culinary options. Central The Hotel Belle Époque is famous for its eponymous Hotel in the historic city center with running service at affordable prices, the Holiday Inn Express location close to the Kurhaus. Superb spa facilities. decor, while every room in Der Kleine Prinz is de- thermal water in some rooms, antique furniture, in Baden-Baden is only a few minutes’ walk from www.dorint.com/baden-baden signed in a different style. French gourmet cuisine. and paintings in Belle Époque style. the Festival Hall. www.hotel-belle-epoque.de and www.heliopark-hirsch.de www.hiexpress.com www.derkleineprinz.de

34 35 ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOKING

If you would prefer to stay at another hotel of TRAVEL CANCELLATION INSURANCE PAYMENT METHOD CANCELLATION your choice, please let us know and we will amend We recommend that you purchase travel cancellation We accept payment by bank transfer, MasterCard, Cancellations are subject to the terms of cancella- your package accordingly (subject to availability). coverage. Please see the table below for informa- Visa, or American Express, as well as Festival Hall tion as specified in the Festival Hall Baden-Baden’s If you would like to extend your stay in Baden- tion on insurance premiums. Insurance cover can gift vouchers. general terms and conditions for tour packages, Baden, we will be happy to book additional nights be purchased at the time of booking. Please make which are printed overleaf for your convenience. at your selected hotel. sure you are not already covered, e.g. by a policy TRAVEL DOCUMENTS included in your credit card agreement or similar. Travel documents are generally sent out two weeks CONTACT BOOKING Our insurance policy provides coverage against the prior to the date of travel. If you would like us to For all bookings and enquiries, please contact our After booking your selected tour package, you will following events (subject to submission of evidence): send them out at an earlier date as a gift to some- travel expert Britta Loose and Elisabeth Winkler receive a confirmation/invoice specifying all services death, severe injury, unexpected severe illness, body else, please let us know. by phoning +49-7221-3013-446 and -447 or included in your package. Please note that a deposit breakage of artificial limbs, damage to property, sending an e-mail to [email protected]. of 20% of the invoice total is payable immediately. start of a new employment, or loss of employment. CHANGES TO THE TOUR PACKAGE Our in-house travel agency is open Mondays to The remainder is payable four weeks prior to your Minor changes and amendments to individual Fridays from 10 am to 6 pm. date of travel and you will not receive a separate PRICE PER INSURANCE PREMIUM parts of the agreed contents of the package that invoice. All items listed under “Package includes” PERSON INCL. TICKETS may become necessary subsequent to the time of are included in the price. Additional expenses, signing the contract and have not been caused by e.g. tips and items from the minibar in your hotel Up to € 250 € 16 the organizer in bad faith are permitted as long as room, are not included in the price. Your package they do not compromise the overall format of the includes category 2 tickets except the arrangements. Up to € 500 € 20 tour package. The organizer is obliged to notify However, we will be happy to upgrade your package the client immediately of any such changes. In the to include category 1 tickets (subject to availability Up to € 75 € 24 event of changes to the program or cast, the booking and a surcharge). Concessions, e.g. for senior citi- remains valid for the new cast or program. In this Up to € 1,000 € 29 zens, or special offers cannot be discounted against case, the client does not have the right to cancel the package price. If you have any special dietary Up to € 1,250 € 35 the booking. requirements such as a vegetarian diet or food allergies or intolerances, please let us know at the Up to € 1,500 € 41 time of booking. Up to € 1,750 € 46

Up to € 2,000 € 53

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AIDA FINE DINING AIDA BAR When Richard Wagner conceived his Gesamtkunst­ For the bar’s design, we drew inspiration from werk (“total work of art”), he left out food. But the the old train station atmosphere. Here you can AT fact is, cooking and music have gone well together enjoy small snacks and a wide range of drinks. for ages; not only wine is perfect while chatting about the night’s concert. Enjoy your meal! At the Festival Hall Baden-Baden, every menu item and set LOBBY BARS meal is prepared on location by our in-house cooks. At the lobby bars you can choose from a selection of When you wish to be regaled by our catering team’s drinks, freshly prepared canapés, oven-baked pretzels, culinary delights, you’ll have several options to and sweet delights. During the concert intermissions choose from, savoring their cuisine in our AIDA (around 20 minutes long), we offer intermission restaurant or in selected seats in the lobby. You snacks at reserved tables, with the option of a glass can enjoy world-class dining before or after every of sparkling wine (€ 18) or champagne (€ 22). YOUR event, and during intermissions. For reservations, please call +49-7221-3013-101.

AIDA BISTRO INTRODUCTORY LECTURES Cold gourmet delicacies await you in the middle We hear what we know – for all operas and sym­ of the lobby, rounded out with an exquisite selection pho­ny concerts, the Festival Hall offers an intro- of premium wines together with coffee and cake ductory lecture in lobby level 3 80 minutes before specialties. We’ll be happy to take your reservation the event. It will be repeated 40 minutes before on +49-7221-3013-101. the event. The lecturers often welcome guest artists as well.

AIDA RESTAURANT SER In days past, this is where first-class travelers DISCOUNTS would wait for their trains. Today, the à la carte People holding the Baden-Baden Family Pass, restaurant provides a supremely elegant culinary seniors, the severely disabled (from 70%), and the setting for your visit to the Festival Hall. The res- unemployed are entitled to a reduced admission taurant opens two hours before the event begins price. For discounts, ID must be presented at the and serves hot meals up to two hours following entrance. the event. For reservations, please call VICE +49-7221-3013-101.

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CLOAKROOMS PAYMENT In the interests of security, jackets and coats may You can pay for your tickets by credit card not be taken into the hall. Cloakrooms are located (VISA, American Express, MasterCard), on the ground floor as well as on the second and bank transfer, or direct debit. For online orders, third levels. There is a charge of € 1.50 per item of payment can be made by credit card, PayPal, clothing. or direct debit.

Bank details: OPENING TIMES Festspielhaus und Festspiele The lobby and lobby bars open 90 minutes before Baden-Baden gGmbH the event begins. Food and drinks are also offered during the intermissions and after the event. Deutsche Bank IBAN: DE65 6627 0024 0010 4422 01 BIC: DEUTDEDB662. OPERA GLASSES Sparkasse Baden-Baden/Gaggenau Opera glasses can be rented in every lobby bar for IBAN: DE37 6625 0030 0000 0645 84 a fee of € 2.50. BIC: SOLADES1BAD PHOTO: MYRZIK UND JARISCH PHOTO:

40 41 PRELIMINARY INFOR- INFORMATION FORM MATION REQUIREMENTS

Information form for the traveler regarding The price of the package tour may only be The traveler is entitled to a price reduction Preliminary information requirements before the start of the tour, the total price is contract, he/she and the traveler are jointly package tour according to § 651a of the increased if certain costs (e.g. fuel prices) and/or compensation if the travel services according to Art. 250 § 3 EGBGB for to be paid immediately. and severally liable to the operator for the German Civil Code (BGB) increase and if this is expressly provided are not provided or not properly provided. Festival Hall packages and Festival Hall tour price and for the additional costs incurred for in the contract, in any case at the latest cultural tours of the Festival Hall gGmbH Withdrawal/termination and change by the entry of the third party. The operator Dear Guest, 20 days before the start of the package tour. The travel operator shall provide assistance in booking by the customer/representative may demand reimbursement of additional The combination of travel services offered If the price increase exceeds 8% of the package to the traveler in the event of difficulties. Address/contact of your tour operator The customer can withdraw from the tour at costs only if and to the extent that they are to you are considered a package tour within tour price, the traveler can withdraw from Festival Hall gGmbH any time prior to the start of the tour. If the reasonable and actually incurred. The operator the meaning of Directive (EU) 2015/2302. the contract. While a travel operator reser- In the event of insolvency of the tour operator Beim Alten Bahnhof 2 customer withdraws from the travel contract must provide the traveler with proof of the You can thus claim all EU rights that apply ves the right to increase the price, the trave- or, in some Member States, of the travel agent, 76530 Baden-Baden or does not join the tour, the operator may amount of additional costs incurred by the to package tours. The Festival Hall gGmbH ler has the right to a price reduction payments will be refunded. If insolvency of Telephone: +49-7221-3013-101 demand lump-sum cancellation costs as a third party. bears full responsibility for the proper if the corresponding costs are reduced. the tour operator or, if applicable, the travel Fax: +49-7221-3013-444 reasonable compensation for the travel execution of the entire package tour. agent occurs after the start of the package E-mail: [email protected] arrangements made as well as the expenses. Booking modification requests by the customer Travelers are entitled, without payment of a tour and if transport is part of the package This does not apply to termination due to force with regard to travel dates, accommodation, In addition, the Festival Hall gGmbH possesses cancellation fee according to D 14.2 tour pack­ tour, the traveler’s return transport is guaran­ Accessibility/suitability for persons majeure within the meaning of § 651h par. meal type, or type of transport are considered the legally required coverage for the reim- age form § 651 BGB Version 1 11.06.2018 JK, teed. The Festival Hall gGmbH has insolvency with reduced mobility 3 of the German Civil Code (BGB). The cus- up to 30 days before the start of the tour, bursement of your payments and, if transport to withdraw from the contract and receive insurance with R+V Allgemeine Versiche- On a Festival Hall cultural tour, we use various tomer must declare the withdrawal to the if feasible, for a processing fee of € 25 per is included in the package tour, to ensure your a full refund of all payments if one of the rung AG, Raiffeisenplatz 1, 65189 Wiesbaden. means of transport such as buses or taxis operator in writing. These lump-sum cancel- person and any additional costs incurred. return transport in the event of insolvency. essential components of the package tour, Travelers can contact this agency by mail, by and stay overnight in different hotels of lation costs are, per registered participant: After expiry of this period, booking modifi- with the exception of the price, is substan­ telephone on +49-611-5330, or by e-mail at varying standards. Since we cannot always cation requests by the customer can only The following are the principal rights under tially altered. If the operator responsible for [email protected] if they are denied services due to guarantee accessibility, neither in public up to the 30th day before start of the tour be processed after withdrawal from the tour Directive (EU) 2015/2302 the package tour cancels the package tour insolvency of the Festival Hall gGmbH. spaces nor in the means of transport and 15% of the tour price, contract in accordance with the above- Travelers will receive all the essential infor- before the start of the package tour, travelers accommodation, our tours are generally not from the 29th to the 15th day mentioned conditions and simultaneous new mation about the package tour prior to the are entitled to reimbursement and possibly suitable for persons with reduced mobility before start of the tour booking. Exceptions to this are the type of conclusion of the package tour contract. to compensation. and other disabilities or handicaps. However, 40% of the tour price, transport and meal type, for which the stipu­ Website where Directive (EU) 2015/2302 experience shows that with a certain willing­ from the 14th to the 7th day lated processing fee continues to apply. At least one operator shall always be liable In the case of the occurrence of unusual cir- in the form transposed into national law ness to compromise and accompanied by a before start of the tour for the proper provision of all travel services cumstances, travelers are entitled to withdraw can be found: www.umsetzung-richtlinie- support person, certain tours from the pro- 50% of the tour price, We recommend that you obtain travel included in the contract. from the contract prior to the start of the eu2015-2302.de gram are possible. Please understand that our from the 6th to the last day cancellation insurance. package tour without payment of a cancel­ tour guides and bus/taxi drivers cannot take before start of the tour Travelers will receive an emergency tele- lation fee, for example if there are serious D14.2 form package tours according to on additional assistance duties. The Festival 80% of the tour price, Cancellation by the operator phone number by which they can contact security problems at the destination that § 651 BGB Version 1 11.06.2018 JK Hall itself, however, is accessible for persons from the day of the tour The operator may withdraw from the the tour operator or travel agency. are likely to affect the package tour. with disabilities. We will be happy to advise 95% of the tour price. contract prior to the start of the contract you individually on +49-7221-3013-446 in the following cases Travelers may transfer the package tour In addition, travelers can withdraw from the from Monday to Friday from 9:30 am The calculation of the lump-sum cancellation (I) For the package tour, fewer persons have to another person within a reasonable time contract at any time prior to the start of the to 6:00 pm. costs shall be determined with reference registered than the minimum number of par- frame and possibly at an additional cost. package tour upon payment of an appropriate to the time of receipt by the operator of the ticipants specified in the contract: in this case, and reasonable cancellation fee. Hotel description customer’s cancellation notice. The operator the operator must declare the withdrawal at In addition to the hotel descriptions in the shall have a claim to compensation exceeding least 20 days prior to the start of the tour for If, after the start of the package tour, essen- 2020 Easter Festival brochure, please visit that agreed in the lump-sum cancellation a travel duration of more than six days, seven tial components of the package tour cannot our website for detailed descriptions of the costs if the operator provides evidence sub- days prior to the start of the tour for a travel be carried out as agreed, other appropriate hotels offered: www.festspielhaus.de/plus/ stantiating such claim. duration of at least two and not more than arrangements shall be offered to the traveler hotel-empfehlungen six days, and 48 hours prior to the start of the at no additional cost. The traveler can with- The traveler can declare, within a reasonable tour for a travel duration of less than two days. draw from the contract without payment of Detailed itinerary period before the start of the tour on a durable a cancellation fee (in the Federal Republic In addition to the program descriptions in medium, that instead of him/herself, a third (II) The operator is prevented from fulfilling of Germany this right is called “termination”) the 2020 Easter Festival brochure, please party enters into the rights and obligations the contract due to unavoidable, extraordinary if services are not provided in accordance visit our website for detailed descriptions under the package tour contract. The decla- circumstances: in this case, he must declare with the contract and this has considerable of the cultural tours offered: ration is in any case timely if it reaches the the withdrawal immediately after learning effect on the provision of the package tour www.festspielhaus.de/plus#kulturreisen operator not later than seven days before the of the reason for withdrawal. If the operator services stipulated by the contract and the start of the tour. The operator may object to withdraws from the contract, the operator tour operator fails to remedy the situation. Payment the entry of the third party if the latter does forfeits the claim to the agreed tour price. Upon conclusion of the contract, a deposit of not fulfill the travel requirements specified If the operator is liable to refund the tour 20% of the invoice amount is due. The balance in the contract. If a third party enters into the price as a result of withdrawal, the operator is due four weeks before the start of the tour. must issue the refund within 14 days after For contracts concluded less than four weeks the withdrawal.

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Terms and Conditions 1. Conclusion of the travel contract four weeks before the departure date. If con- 5. Changes to the service and price after the 6. Withdrawal/termination and change of tional charges only if, and to the extent that, Festival Hall Baden-Baden By registering in writing, in person, or by tracts are concluded less than four weeks conclusion of contract booking by the customer/substitute person they are actually and reasonably incurred. The Information about your booking phone, the customer makes a binding offer before the departure date, the full price is Changes to individual travel services and The customer can withdraw from the trip at Organizer must provide proof to the customer to the Organizer to conclude a travel contract. payable immediately. After receipt of payment, departures from the agreed content of the any time before the departure date. If the of the amount of additional charges incurred The receipt of the customer’s registration shall we will send the customer the travel docu- travel contract which become necessary customer withdraws from the travel contract, through the entry of the third party. If the General Terms and Conditions of Travel of immediately be confirmed electronically. ments (vouchers, tickets, etc.) around two after the conclusion of contract and are not or if he or she does not commence the trip, customer wishes to change his or her booking Festspielhaus und Festspiele Baden-Baden Registration by the customer shall also take weeks before the departure date. The custom­ introduced by the Organizer contrary to good the Organizer can demand a flat-rate with- in respect of the date of travel, accommoda- gGmbH for travel events place for all the participants listed in the reg­ er must check all the documents received faith are permitted, provided they are insig- drawal fee as appropriate compensation tion, form of catering, or method of transport, istration, and the customer shall be respon- for correctness regarding those details which nificant and do not adversely affect the over- for the travel arrangements made and the provided it is feasible, account will be taken In cases in which Festspielhaus und Fest­ sible for their contractual obligations as well are within the sphere of the customer con- all nature of the trip booked. The Organizer Organizer’s expenses. This does not apply of this up to 30 days before the departure spiele Baden-Baden gGmbH (hereinafter as for his or her own obligations insofar as he cerned and of the participants listed in the must immediately inform the customer of to termination due to force majeure within date in return for a processing fee of € 25 “Organizer”) operates a package tour or she has assumed a separate obligation to registration. The customer must assert any changes in the terms of contract on a durable the meaning of Section 651 h Para. 3 BHB. per person and any additional costs arising. within the meaning of Section 651 a BGB this effect in the form of an express separate complaints to the Organizer immediately. medium and clearly, understandably, and in The customer must declare his or her with- After this period has expired, the customer’s (German Civil Code) on its own responsibility declaration. The contract shall be concluded No account can be taken of later complaints. a prominent manner. A change is only valid drawal to the Organizer in writing. These wishes to change his or her booking can only and offers it in its own name, the legal when the Organizer accepts the registration. If for reasons of time it should no longer be when it meets these conditions and is declared flat-rate withdrawal costs per registered be dealt with after he or she has withdrawn relationship between the customer and the Such acceptance does not require any parti- possible to send the travel documents out, prior to the commencement of the contract. participant are: from the travel contract in accordance with Organizer is regulated in accordance with cular form. On or immediately after the con- they will be kept at the box office of the In the event of insignificant changes to the the aforementioned conditions and simulta- the General Terms and Conditions of Travel clusion of contract, the customer shall receive Festival Hall Baden-Baden. program and the cast after the conclusion up to the 30th day before start of the tour neously made a new booking. Exceptions below and Sections 651 a ff. BGB (German the confirmation of travel, which can be issued of contract, the booked trip shall remain in 15% of the tour price, from this are the means of transport and the Civil Code). in writing or electronically on a durable me- 3. Services place with the changed cast or the changed from the 29th to the 15th day form of catering. The agreed processing fee dium. If the details of the travel confirmation The contractual scope of services derives program. In this case, the customer does not before start of the tour will continue to apply here. differ from the registration, the travel confir- from the details in the confirmation of travel. have any right of withdrawal from the trip. 40% of the tour price, mation shall constitute a new offer from the If the Organizer uses brochures, the scope of When due to circumstances occurring after from the 14th to the 7th day 7. Withdrawal by the Organizer Organizer, by which the Organizer shall be services derives from the travel descriptions the conclusion of the contract, the Organizer before start of the tour The Organizer can withdraw from the contract bound for ten days and which the customer in the respective brochure. The details con- can only provide the travel service to the client 50% of the tour price, before the departure date in the following can accept within this period by means of tained in the corresponding publication are by altering one of the essential characteristics from the 6th to the last day cases: (i) When fewer people have registered an express declaration, the payment of a binding upon the Organizer. However, the of the travel service, or by departing from before start of the tour for the travel package than the minimum deposit, the payment of the balance, or by Organizer expressly reserves the right to de- special provisions of the customer that form 80% of the tour price, number of participants specified in the con- commencing the trip. After the contract has clare a change to the details in the brochure part of the contract, the Organizer can offer from the day of the tour tract; in this case the Organizer shall declare been concluded, the text of the contract will before the conclusion of contract; the custom­ a corresponding price increase and require 95% of the tour price. withdrawal at the latest 20 days before the be stored by the Organizer and will be handed er will be informed of this before booking. for the customer, within an appropriate time departure date for a trip duration of more than over to the customer on request. The con- frame, to (i) accept the price increase or (ii) The effective date for the calculation of the six days, seven days before the departure date tractual language is German. The Organizer 4. Dispatch of travel documents withdraw from the contract. Optionally, the flat-rate withdrawal fee is the date on which for a trip duration of at least two and at most shall inform the customer, before the custom­ The travel documents will be sent to the Organizer can also offer a different package the customer’s declaration of withdrawal is six days, and 48 hours before the departure er confirms his or her agreement with the address provided by the customer. Partial tour (replacement tour). After the expiry of received by the Organizer. The Organizer can date for a trip duration of fewer than two days. terms, pursuant to Article 250 Sections 1 to 3 deliveries are permissible provided these are the time period determined by the Organizer, assert higher damages than those agreed in (ii) The Organizer is prevented from comply- of the Introductory Law to the German Civil reasonable for the customer. The Organizer the offer of a price increase or other changes the flat-rate withdrawal fee if it provides evi- ing with the contract due to unavoidable and Code (EGBGB). should be informed immediately if the cus- in the contract is deemed to be accepted. dence of these. Within an appropriate time exceptional circumstances; in this case the tomer has not received the travel documents frame before the departure date, the customer Organizer shall declare withdrawal imme- 2. Payment by seven days before the departure date at can declare on a durable medium that instead diately upon learning of the reason for with- Payments of the price of travel before the the latest. of him or her, a third party shall succeed to drawal. If the Organizer withdraws from the package tour has ended are to be made only the rights and obligations flowing from the contract, he loses any claim to the agreed-upon when there is a valid contract of guarantee package travel contract. In each case the dec­ trip fee. If due to withdrawal, the Organizer for the customer’s money and when the name laration is in due time when it reaches the is liable to reimburse the trip fee, he shall do and bank details of the guarantor were pro- Organizer no later than seven days before the so within 14 days after the withdrawal. vided to the customer clearly, understandably, departure date. The Organizer can refuse and in a prominent manner. The financial entry of the third party if he or she does not 8. Guarantee/redress/withdrawal guarantee certificate will be sent to the custom­ ­ meet the demands stipulated in the travel If it is not possible or reasonable for the er together with the confirmation of travel. contract. When a third party enters into the customer for redress for a deficiency to be A deposit of 20% of the invoice amount is due contract, he/she and the customer are jointly provided via the respective service provider, for payment on the conclusion of contract and severally liable to the Organizer for the the customer shall be obliged to immediately and the handover of the financial guarantee price of the trip and for the additional costs certificate. The balance of payment is due incurred by the entry of the third party. The Organizer can claim reimbursement of addi­

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inform the Organizer of any deficiencies and was not foreseeable or was unavoidable 11. Place of jurisdiction/applicable law occurring and request redress. The Organizer for the Organizer or was caused by unavoid­ The Organizer’s registered office is the com- can refuse to provide such redress if this is able and exceptional circumstances. Liability petent place of jurisdiction, and this contract impossible or requires disproportionate ex- for fault and personal injury remains unaffected. shall be governed by German law, though in pense. Insofar as the deficiencies relate to a both cases only insofar as the customer is a substantial portion of the travel services and 10. Events at the Festival Hall Baden-Baden merchant. the Organizer is not obliged to provide redress, Customers are forbidden to make sound, the Organizer shall provide redress in the form photo, film, or video recordings. Once the 12. Passport, visa, customs, foreign currency, of appropriate compensation in accordance event has started, customers can only enter and health regulations with Section 651 k Para. 3 BGB. A withdrawal the hall as appropriate during a break for late The Organizer shall inform citizens of the by the customer from the travel contract on admissions. The instructions of the personnel EU member state in which the trip is offered account of a deficiency in the trip which has must be followed. If a customer leaves the about the provisions of the regulations con- a substantial adverse effect on the trip is only room or site of the event after being admitted cerning passports, visas, and health before permissible if the Organizer does not provide or during a break, or if the tear-off section the departure date, as well as any changes to any reasonable redress after being given an of the ticket is removed by a third party in- these. Nationals of other states should obtain appropriate period to do so by the customer. structed by the Organizer, the ticket shall lose information from the embassies/consulates No such period is required if redress is im- its validity. responsible for them. It is assumed that no possible, is refused by the Organizer, or if special circumstances (e.g. dual citizenship, immediate termination has been received, statelessness) apply to the customer and other unless the customer has been prevented from participants. The Organizer is not liable for complying with the time limit through no the necessary visas being issued by the respec­ fault of his or her own. Apart from claims tive diplomatic representation and received in his or her own name, the aforementioned in good time. The Organizer is not responsible claims can also be registered by the customer for compliance with customs and foreign for family members traveling with him or her, currency regulations. or in the name of travel participants who were represented by the customer when registering 13. Information about possible for the trip. The traveler’s contractual claims insurance policies on account of deficiencies in the trip according The Organizer wishes to point out that it is to Section 651 i Para. 3 BGB shall expire in possible to take out travel cancellation and accordance with the statutory authorization luggage insurance and also travel health (Section 651 i BGB) in two years, calculated insurance. from the day the travel package is to end according to the contract. If the last day of this period falls on a Sunday, on a nationally 14. Severability clause recognized, general public holiday at the place The ineffectiveness of individual provisions of declaration, or on a Saturday, the next of the travel contract does not affect the ef- working day shall be deemed to be the end fectiveness of the travel contract otherwise. of the period. If the customer has asserted The same applies to these General Terms such claims, their expiry is blocked until and Conditions of Travel. the day on which the Organizer definitively rejects the claims in writing. The cession Version of March 2018 of claims against the Organizer is excluded.

9. Limitation of liability The Organizer’s contractual liability for damages that are not physical injuries is limited to three times the price of travel insofar as damage to the customer is not culpably caused. No claim to compensation can be made insofar as the deficiency is caused by the customer or a third party who is neither the service provider nor involved in any other way in providing the travel service stipulated in the package travel contract, PHOTO: THOMAS STRAUB PHOTO:

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CONTACT CREDITS VENUES Telephone Publisher 1 KULTURHAUS LA 8 To order tickets +49-7221-3013-101 Festival Hall gGmbH, 2 KURHAUS BÉNAZETSAAL

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EASTER FESTIVAL, APRIL 4 – 13, 2020 BEETHOVEN’S CHAMBER MUSIC BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER AT THE EASTER FESTIVAL

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5 | 11 AM THE PHILHARMONIC SALON: BEETHOVEN 26 4 FIDELIO – L. VAN BEETHOVEN New production 8 5 | 2 PM BEETHOVEN Chamber Music I 26 5 TUGAN SOKHIEV – PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION 12 5 | 9:30 PM BEETHOVEN Chamber Music II 26 5 SIMPLICIUS SIMPLICISSIMUS – K. A. HARTMANN 22 6 | 3:30 PM CHAMBER MUSIC at LA8 I 26 6 KIRILL PETRENKO – G. MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 6 14 7 | 11 AM BEETHOVEN Chamber Music III 26 7 FIDELIO – L. VAN BEETHOVEN New production 8 7 | 12:30 PM BEETHOVEN Chamber Music IV 27 9 SIMPLICIUS SIMPLICISSIMUS – K. A. HARTMANN 22 7 | 2 PM BEETHOVEN Chamber Music V 27 10 KIRILL PETRENKO – BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNIS 16 8 | 3:30 PM CHAMBER MUSIC at LA8 II 27 11 SIMPLICIUS SIMPLICISSIMUS – K. A. HARTMANN 22 8 | 9 PM LATE NIGHT: BOLERO BERLIN 27 11 YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN – G. MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 3 18

12 HERBERT BLOMSTEDT – A. BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 4 20

13 KIRILL PETRENKO AND NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GERMANY 23 STRING QUARTET MARATHON AT THE EASTER FESTIVAL 13 FIDELIO – L. VAN BEETHOVEN New production 8

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10 | 1 PM STRING QUARTETS I 28

10 | 2:30 PM STRING QUARTETS II 28

10 | 4 PM STRING QUARTETS III 28

11 | 2 PM STRING QUARTETS IV “RAZUMOVSKY” 28

12 | 1 PM STRING QUARTETS V 29

12 | 4 PM STRING QUARTETS VI 29

13 | 1 PM STRING QUARTETS VII 29

13 | 2:30 PM STRING QUARTETS VIII 29

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