Musicbanda Franui
Javus Quartet
Klakradl
Laurenz Nikolaus
Sväng
Florian Boesch, bass baritone
Christoph Urbanetz, viola da gamba
Shuteen Erdenebaatar, piano
Katharina Ernst, percussion
Stefanie Dvorak, reading
Dörte Lyssewski, reading
Aldo Giannotti, stage design

Sat, 6 p.m.–approx. 11.30 p.m. ∙ All halls – Fixed seats will be allocated for the ‘finale’ at approx. 10 p.m. in the Great Hall. Free seating applies to the other parts of the event.

To mark the opening of Liedstadt Weimar, multifaceted pop-up concerts at various public locations offer a contrasting preview of the upcoming festival: Lieder, songs and spoken poetry explore emotional depths while also conveying a sense of hope and new beginnings.

At 2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm in the Herdergarten, Café Lieblingsgarten, Co-Labor am Schloss, and Hotel Russischer Hof

With the Liedstadt artists:
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, poetry & piano
Anne Haasch, guitar

Students of the University of Music Franz Liszt:
Maximilian Thom, bass-baritone
Franziska Schuhmann, guitar
Lucie Müller, mezzo-soprano
Anton Kuckelhorn, piano

On the 50th day after Easter, Christians around the world celebrate Pentecost. On the evening before Pentecost Sunday, the Liedstadt artists invite the audience to a “Pentecost Singing” event in the historic Sendehalle. Originally conceived by the National Socialists as a Nietzsche Memorial Hall, the broadcasting hall later served during the GDR era as a studio for concert recordings. Subsequently, the MDR moved into the premises behind Villa Silberblick. For Liedstadt, the Stiftung Sendehalle Weimar opens its doors—today, the site is being further developed into a place of history, education, and culture.

With the Liedstadt artists:
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, poetry & piano
Anne Haasch, guitar

Students of the University of Music Franz Liszt:
Maximilian Thom, bass-baritone
Franziska Schuhmann, guitar
Lucie Müller, mezzo-soprano
Anton Kuckelhorn, piano

Julian Prégardien, tenor
Daniel Heide, piano

The tenor Julian Prégardien is one of the most engaging classical singers of our time. His clear voice and moving interpretation of texts, coupled with a unique ability to tell stories through song, make him ideally suited to the art of lieder singing. He is a regular guest in the Ettersburg lieder recital series ‘Der lyrische Salon’.

Dario Castello
Sonate Nr. 16 á 4 C major
Giovanni Battista Buonamente
Sonate in D-Major for three violins and basso continuo
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in F major for recorder RV442
Concerto in g minor ›La Notte‹ for flute RV 104
Concerto in D major ›Il Gardellino‹ RV 90
Tomaso Albinoni
Adagio in d-minor for two violins and basso continuo
Joseph Haydn
›Arianna a Naxos‹, Hob. XXVI b,2

Patricia Nolz, mezzosoprano
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, artistic direction & flute

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Young Woo Kim, Siegfried
Johannes Kammler, Gunther
Daniel Schmutzhard, Alberich
Patrick Zielke, Hagen
Åsa Jäger, Brünnhilde
Sophia Brommer, Gutrune
Olivia Vermeulen, Waltraute
Jasmin Etminan, Erste Norn
Marie-Luise Dreßen, Zweite Norn
Valentina Farcas, Dritte Norn
Ania Vegry, Woglinde
Ida Aldrian, Wellgunde
Eva Vogel, Floßhilde

Kent Nagano, conductor
Concerto Köln
Dresdner Festspielorchester

Charlotte Bowden, soprano
Jan Petryka, tenor
Günter Haumer, baritone
Junge Philharmonie Wien
Michael Lessky, conductor

Michael Schade, tenor
André Ferreira, renaissance lute, theorbo & biedermeier guitar
Christoph Hammer, harpsichord & fortepiano
Serge Falck, recitation

The atrocities committed by the National Socialists in the Buchenwald concentration camp between 1937 and 1945 belong to the darkest chapters of German history. To commemorate the countless victims and preserve a culture of remembrance, the Liedstadt Festival invites participants to a walk from the Buchenwald Memorial to Schloss Ettersburg, located about three kilometres away.

The “Zeitschneise” (“Time Corridor”) connects the former Buchenwald concentration camp with Schloss Ettersburg, a former summer residence of the Weimar court. Since the 16th century, the Weimar nobility used the Ettersberg as a hunting ground and created so-called “hunting clearings,” where game was driven together for hunting parties. For the construction of the labour and extermination camp Buchenwald, the National Socialists used these existing paths and turned them into connections between the camp and surrounding villages. In the 1990s, the path between Buchenwald and Schloss Ettersburg was restored and established as a memorial route called the “Zeitschneise.”

The Liedstadt memorial walk begins at the burnt Goethe oak on the grounds of the Buchenwald Memorial with a “song without words,” performed by the Weimar guitarist Anne Haasch. The roots of the Goethe oak today symbolize the prisoners’ resilience and their memory of a better world outside the camp.

The walk then continues along the “Zeitschneise” towards Schloss Ettersburg. At various stops along the way, the journey pauses: the poet Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg reads from his texts, and Julian Prégardien performs songs spanning over 200 years of Weimar musical history, accompanied by Anne Haasch on guitar. This includes songs composed in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

The memorial walk combines musical education, historical learning, and social responsibility, making an important contribution to regional remembrance culture.

A shuttle bus is provided:
10:00 – Bus transfer to Buchenwald Memorial (departure: Goetheplatz Weimar)
16:30 – Bus transfer from Schloss Ettersburg back to Goetheplatz Weimar

Georg Friedrich Händel: arrangements and improvisations
Spiritual ›Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child‹
Frank Sinatra ›In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning‹
Stevie Wonder ›If it’s Magic‹
a.o.

Thomas Quasthoff, voice & moderation
Wolfgang Meyer, guitar
Shawn Grocott, trombone