Forget everything you think you know about Wagner! Kent Nagano, the Dresden Festival Orchestra, and Concerto Köln are setting new standards with their performance of the Ring cycle. For the first time ever, this monumental project is being heard in a historically informed interpretation. Just as in Wagner’s own day, the string players use gut strings; the wind instruments are reconstructed based on 19th-century models; the orchestra’s tuning is lower; and the text is at times declaimed rather than traditionally “sung.” Suddenly everything becomes intelligible — and at times it almost recalls the delivery of art song. Working with an international research team, Nagano has brought surprising insights to light. The result is striking. “Light and airy” is how Jan Brachmann described this Wagner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; in particular, the winds impress “with sharper definition in their individual colors: they creak, belch, and grunt with a kind of unruly physicality.” With Götterdämmerung, the Ring comes full circle this summer. And once more we have the chance to experience Wagner’s music as he himself most likely heard it.

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Dresden Festival Orchestra | Concerto Köln | Dresden Festival Choir of the Richard Wagner Academy | Kent Nagano | Soloists

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Around 70 percent of the earth's surface is covered by water - and that's not all: we humans are also made up of almost two thirds of it. It is therefore not entirely unlikely that feelings or even something like a soul are reflected in water. We provide the proof here: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov spent his life studying the sea. He had...

Guest Concert

Festhalle Pirmasens

Best Western Plus Palatin Kongress Hotel

Around 70 percent of the earth's surface is covered by water - and that's not all: we humans are also made up of almost two thirds of it. It is therefore not entirely unlikely that feelings or even something like a soul are reflected in water. We'll provide the proof here: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov spent his entire life studying the sea. He really knew a lot about water, because he sailed around the world as a member of the navy...

Landlubbers

Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen

Festhalle Wörth

The Danish master conductor Thomas Dausgaard is at the head of the Copenhagen Phil on an evening where we celebrate American music history with, among other things, Leonard Bernstein's impressive Songfest – composed on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.

Eva Vogel

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Past events

Sep 10, 2026

Dresden Festival Orchestra | Concerto Köln | Dresden Festival Choir of the Richard Wagner Academy | Kent Nagano | Soloists · Lucerne Festival

Apr 6, 2025

Guest Concert · Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Future and recently performed repertoire

Floßhilde in Götterdämmerung by Wagner

Lucerne Festival

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