Special Projects
200 Years of Wagner – The "Ring" in Lucerne
The Lucerne Festival is known as one of the most renowned classical music festvals over the world featuring outstanding artists every year. In 2007, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra was "orchestra in residence" - wit Jonathan Nott as "artiste étoile" and an extensive programme including a concert performance of Richard Wagner's "Das Rheingold". In summer 2013, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Jonathan Nott have been invited once again as "orchestra in residence" to the festival. To mark the composer’s 200th birthday, LUCERNE FESTIVAL is presenting the first complete performance of the Ring cycle in the Wagner city of Lucerne (30th August - 4th September), with Jonathan Nott, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and internationally acclaimed Wagner singers, including Albert Dohmen, Petra Lang, Mikhail Petrenko, and Klaus Florian Vogt.
Miracles from the Margins : Season Start with Haydn / Bartók
They both sought out the seeds of musical growth far from the cultural capitals of their day. Joseph Haydn, innovator of the symphony, worked for 30 years at Esterházy Castle, where he felt ‘cut off from the world’ – and, for that very reason, free to be ‘original’; while Béla Bartók, the great Hungarian, found himself irresistibly drawn to the countryside, immersing himself in its authentic oral tradition of folk music.
"artist in residence" 2013/2014: Till Fellner
Fire, Finesse, Flair - It lasted 12 months, a complete ‘career break’: in 2012 Till Fellner returned to music-making after a year away from the concert hall, during which he deepened his knowledge of film, literature and composition, and prepared new repertoire. Only for Bernard Haitink did he interrupt his sabbatical, accepting an invitation to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E flat K.482 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This season, he is the Bamberg Symphony’s Artist in Residence.