The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden has announced its 2025 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances.

Camilla Nylund, Andreas Schager, and Pietari Inkinen perform an evening of Wagner, Strauss, Kálmán, Lehar,

Performance Dates: Jan. 12, 2025

Zum Rahmenprogramm des Festivals 

Gianandrea Noseda, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, and Philharmonia Zürich lead an all-Strauss program.

Performance Dates: Feb. 22, 2025

Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Christiane Karg and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. The program also includes music by Dvorak.

Performance Dates: March 7, 2025

Yi-Chen Lin conducts a Bel Canto concert featuring music by Bellini, Rossini, and Donizetti. Regula Mühlemann is the soloist alongside Kammerorchester Basel.

Performance Dates: March 13, 2025

Easter Festival Baden-Baden

Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will showcase the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Kirill Petrenko. Davide Livermore conducts a cast that includes Eleonora Burrato, Jonathan Tetelman, Teresa Iervolino, and Tassis Christoyannis.

Performance Dates: April 12-20, 2025

Kirill Petrenko will conduct Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor and will star Katharina Konradi, Beth Taylor, Sebastian Kohlhepp, and Tareq Nazmi.

Performance Dates: April 18-21, 2025

Antonello Manacorda conducts Weber’s “Der Freischütz” with Charles Castronovo, Golda Schultz, Kyle Ketelsen, Nicola Hillebrand, Dimitry Ivashenko, and Johanna Wokalek.

Performance Date: May 3, 2025

Semyon Bychkov conducts the Tchechische Philharmonie Prag in Smetana’s “Die Moldau.”

Performance Date: May 16, 2025

Performance Date: May 23, 2025

Pfingstfestpiele

Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth perform music by Pierre Boulez and Debussy with soprano Sarah Aristidou.

Performance Date: June 8, 2025

The SWR Symphonieorchester, François-Xavier Roth, and SWR Vokalensemble lead a program of music by Pierre Boulez and Bruckner.

Performance Date: June 9, 2025

Diana Damrau, Jonas Kaufmann, and Helmut Deutsch perform music by Strauss and Mahler.

Performance Date: June 20, 2025

Elena Stikhina and Vittorio Grigolo lead an opera gala with Jordi Bernàcer and the Philharmonie Baden-Baden.

Performance Date: June 22, 2025

Sommerfestpiele

Performance Date: June 29, 2025

Performance Date: July 4, 2025

Yannick Nézet-Séguin joins the RIAS Kammerchor und Solisten and Chamber Orchestra of Europe for Mozart’s Mass in C.

Performance Date: July 6, 2025

Sonya Yoncheva leads Bellini’s “Norma” with Karine Deshayes, Ștefan Pop, and Alexander Vinogradov. Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Gstaad Festival Orchestra and Chor der Bühne Bern.

Performance Date: August 24, 2025

Tanzfestival 

Cecilia Bartoli and Lang Lang team up for Lieder.

Performance Date: Oct. 31, 2025

Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger perform Schubert’s Winterreise.

Performance Date: Nov. 1, 2025

Festival Le Grand Gare

Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” will star Cecilia Molinari, Levy Sekgapane, Edward Nelson, Misha Kiria, and Alexandros Stavrakakis. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor and Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester. Vincent Huguet directs.

Lionel Sow conducts the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor and Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester in a performance of music by Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Bach.

Mari Eriksmoen and Anna Lucia Richter perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Paavo Järvi conducting the Zürcher Singakademie and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.

Winterfestpiele

Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Éva Duda directs a cast that includes André Schuen, Jessica Pratt, Miah Persson, Luca Pisaroni, Bernard Richter, Giulia Semenzato, Daniel Noyola, and Krisztián Cser.

Performance Dates: Dec. 19 & 21, 2025

Iván Fischer conducts a Bach program with soloists Julia Lezhneva, Olivia Vermeulen, Julian Prégardien, and Hanno Müller-Brachmann. Collegium Vocale Gent joins them.

Performance Date: Dec. 20, 2025

Timur Zangiev and the Philharmonie Baden-Baden will lead the silver concert. Soloists will include Aigul Akhmetshina and Piotr Beczała performing arias and duets.

Performance Date: Dec. 31, 2025