The soprano Julia Kleiter, originally from Limburg, studied with Prof. William Workmann in Hamburg and Prof. Klesie Kelly-Moog in Cologne. She made her debut in 2004 at the Opéra
Bastille in Paris as Pamina – a role she went on to perform in numerous productions over the years at leading houses such as Madrid, Zurich, the Metropolitan Opera in New York,
Munich, and the Salzburg Festival, under conductors including Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Minkowski, Claudio Abbado, and Philippe Jordan. She has built a wide-ranging opera and concert repertoire through collaborations with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Ivor
Bolton, René Jacobs, and Fabio Luisi.

Swiss tenor Mauro Peter was born in Lucerne and completed his studies at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Munich. In 2012 he won both first prize and the audience prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau and made his highly acclaimed recital debut at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg with Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. He has since appeared as a regular guest at the festival and in leading concert halls and opera houses internationally such as Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, Brucknerhaus Linz, HET Concertgebouw, at the Canadian Opera Company, Bavarian State Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra national de Paris, the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Real in Madrid, Theater an der Wien, Zurich Opera House and the Salzburg Festival.

Top class! That is the claim of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra stands for concerts at the highest artistic level, musical education for all ages and looking beyond the musical horizon. Guest performances on almost every continent and collaborations with guests from all over the world have established the reputation of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in the international classical music world.