Schwetzingen SWR Festival 2024 with grand finale
Closing with the world premiere of the music theatre production ‘The whole Truth about Lies’
The Schwetzingen SWR Festival 2024 will conclude on Saturday, 25 May, with the world premiere of the new music theatre production by Nico and the Navigators: The whole Truth about Lies. Based on the seductive and disastrous fascination of falsehood, the ensemble searches for evidence of self-deception and heteronomy, white lies and fallacies in the dark depths of classical heritage as well as on the glittering surface of contemporary music. The direction and artistic direction of this exciting production is in the hands of Nicola Hümpel. A few tickets are still available.
In the four weeks from 26 April to 25 May, the Schwetzingen SWR Festival welcomed a total of more than 18,000 visitors to 47 top-class concerts, music theatre performances and events from the supporting programme under the motto ‘Da capo’. The occupancy rate for the paid events was over 91 per cent. The 2024 edition of the festival was the eighth and final season under the artistic direction of Heike Hoffmann.
Heike Hoffmann: ‘I am delighted that my last Schwetzingen season was also an artistic success and was extremely well received by the audience. Many thanks to the artists and all those who have contributed to this success with their great commitment and professionalism.’
The radio culture programme SWR Kultur accompanied the festival events in Schwetzingen with broadcasts and reports as well as concert broadcasts. All concerts were and are broadcast live from Schwetzingen Palace or with a time delay on SWR Kultur. This gives the festival an enormous and international reach. This year's concerts and music theatre productions will be broadcast on the radio until the summer, after which they will be available to listen to on www.SWRKultur.de. The performance of St Mary's Vespers from Worms Cathedral will be available on Arte Concert until 29 October 2024.
The Schwetzingen SWR Festival 2025 will take place from 2 to 31 May 2025 - then for the first time under the artistic direction of Cornelia Bend. As usual, the programme will be published at the end of 2024.
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