Canaletto – Das Dresdner Stadtfest

Peer Gynt

Pure romance with the first guest conductor to close the Dresden City Festival.
© Nikolaj Lund

8/17

Sunday | 8/17/2025
5:30 pm Start of Concert
Theaterplatz vor der Semperoper

About the Concert

Sneak Peek

Drama meets Romance: When the Norwegian national poet Henrik Ibsen and his compatriot, the Norwegian Edward Grieg, met in Rome in 1866, they immediately hit it off. It's no wonder that Ibsen later asked the composer to write the music for his play "Peer Gynt" - at that time, it was almost unthinkable to stage a major theater production without incidental music. But as good as the music was - it would have long been forgotten if Grieg had not compiled it into two suites for orchestra. Today, the work, with the flute melody from "Morning Mood" or the striking sounds of the bassoon in "In the Hall of the Mountain King," is considered quintessential romantic music. As a grand finale to the Dresden City Festival, the Dresden Philharmonic will present it open-air on Theaterplatz under the direction of Tabita Berglund - who could be more suitable for this than the newly appointed First Guest Conductor from Norway?

Program

Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt: Prelude - In the Wedding Court
"Peer Gynt" Suite No. 1 from the incidental music (1876/88)
Peer Gynt Suite No. 2

Édouard Lalo
Norwegian Fantasy

Pablo de Sarasate
Carmen Fantasy

Artists

Tabita Berglund
Conductor (Principal Guest Conductor 25/26)
Leonhard Baumgartner
Violin
Dresdner Philharmonie

Biographies

Tabita Berglund

Principal Guest Conductor 25/26

Our Principal Guest Conductor introduces herself. You can find more pictures & videos of Tabita Berglund here.

The Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund has been described as “one of Europe's greatest promises” (Helsingin Sanomat) and captures the audiences with her charismatic and inspiring style. She has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra since the start of the 2024/25 season and will take up the same position with the Dresden Philharmonic from 2025/26. In addition to her already broad repertoire from Mozart to Lutosławski, she is particularly committed to the music of composers from the Nordic countries.

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Leonhard Baumgartner

He will only just enter adulthood in 2025, but he has already won numerous competitions and performed with major orchestras: Vienna-born violinist Leonhard Baumgartner. At the age of 15, for example, he made his debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Konzerthaus. He has even already taken part in a world premiere recording for Deutsche Grammophon: he played the first violin in Mozart's newly discovered Serenade K. 648 for two violins and bass.

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Dresdner Philharmonie

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.  

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