Summer festivals start

The first summer festivals of the 2023/24 season start in June, including the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival, Kissingen Sommer an Bach Festival Leipzig.

Potsdam’s theme this year is “Friendship” and explores possible influences that strong spiritual and emotional ties and common interests can have or have had on music. Among others, the Italian baroque orchestra Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini are invited to follow the traces of the Bassano family in London in their programme IL VIAGGIO DI BASSANO. Shortly afterwards, the orchestra and soprano Anna Prohaska will be guests at the Kissinger Sommer with their long-running SERPENT & FIRE.

Fabio Biondi and his orchestra Europa Galante explore the many connections between the work of Antonio Vivaldi and various works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel on the occasion of this year’s Bach Festival Leipzig.

11 June 2023, Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival
IL VIAGGIO DI BASSANO
Giovanni Antonini, transverse flute & musical direction
Virtuoso Wind Music from Renaissance & Early Baroque
18 June 2023, Kissinger Summer
SERPENT & FIRE
Anna Proaska, soprano
Works by H. Purcell, G. F. Händel, J. A. Hasse a.o.

15 June 2023, Bach Festival Leipzig
CONCERTS AVEC PLUSIEURS INSTRUMENTS II
Fabio Biondi, violin & musical direction
Works by J. S. Bach & A. Vivaldi
17 June 2023, Bachfest Leipzig
CONCERTS AVEC PLUSIEURS INSTRUMENTS V
Fabio Biondi, musical direction / Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Works by J. S. Bach, G. F. Händel & A. Vivaldi