Subscriptions

AS YOU LIKE IT! - YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DRESDEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Do you like to plan for the long term and prefer to have your best plans in your calendar well in advance? Then our festival site subscriptions are just right for you. Or are you one of those who like to choose for themselves, plan more flexibly and also want to book a subscription later in the season? Then one of our new and flexible optional subscriptions is the best choice.

A subscription allows you:

As a season ticket holder, you will receive your seat for the coming season before all other guests.
With a fixed subscription you save up to approx. 40% compared to the normal price, with an flexible subscription approx. 20%.
If possible, you will receive the same seat in the concerts with a fixed seat subscription.
As a fixed subscriber, you have the opportunity to swap within the orchestra concerts up to three times per season without additional charge (subject to availability).
As an flexible subscriber, from the 2025/26 season you can choose your desired concerts from one of our four concert series (symphony concerts, chamber concerts, short concerts abFRACKt and/or short concerts Best of Classics) and book them on site at the ticket service or online in the webshop as an individual subscription.
We invite you to a presentation of the new concert season in advance.
We will inform you exclusively about special offers.
You can take your friends and family to the concert with a 10% discount

Whether you prefer to come more often or just a few times a year, whether you particularly like the works of well-known composers or you like to try something new - each of our large subscriptions has the right concerts for you. Depending on the number of concerts, you can save up to 36% on the normal ticket price. You will find our major subscriptions under A-E. Our big subscriptions are available again for the 26/27 season.

Do you like going to concerts, but it doesn't have to be every week? With our small subscriptions, we have selected four or five concerts for you each week. With our matinee concerts, you can start your Sunday with a musical highlight and have already experienced something wonderful at lunchtime. Or perhaps you are one of those who like to end their working week with a concert on Friday evening. Or you prefer to mix things up and come to us on different days of the week. You can find our small subscriptions under the name G-I. Our little subscriptions are available again for the 26/27 season.

You can put together an optional subscription from our symphony concerts, which are marked WA in the calendar. It must include at least four and can include a maximum of ten concerts. You can also book a subscription of your choice from our chamber music, abFRACKt and Best of Klassik series. Depending on the series, it can include a minimum of three and a maximum of eight concerts. It is not possible to swap concert dates from an flexible subscription.

A concert for €7.50? Of course! Pupils and young people (students, trainees, men and women doing their federal voluntary service or a voluntary social year, military service) under the age of 30 can purchase any subscription from the start of sales for €7.50 per concert. These Young People's € subscriptions are not automatically renewed. From the 2025/26 season, the price will be €8 per concert. Within a fixed subscription, up to 3 concert dates can be exchanged at a later date.

Sales start on 18 March.

9 concerts | 40% off

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

It is the largest and leaves nothing to be desired: With this subscription you will experience Chief Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles
as well as the former Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling. You will get to know the Principal Guest Conductor
Tabita Berglund and other young conductors, listen to great symphonies from Bruckner to Mahler
and enjoy the highest level of virtuosity from soloists such as Truls Mørk and Lucienne Renaudin Vary.

subscription prices

All subscriptions are available for students and young people for 8€ per concert only. Severely disabled people (above 80%) get a 50% discount to the general subscription price. Both offers are available via the ticket service only.

9/12 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Carmina Burana

The famous choral work with Chief Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
10/17 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Tabita Berglund mit Schubert

Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante and Schubert's completed "Unfinished"

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
11/7 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Runnicles mit Bruckner

Bruckner Symphony and piano legend Emanuel Ax with piano concerto by Beethoven

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
12/25 Friday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Tschaikowski und Beethoven

Classical and Romanticism for Christmas

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
1/30 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Beethoven Klavierkonzerte 1, 2 & 4

Kirill Gerstein plays and conducts.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
2/27 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Rachmaninow 3

Russian Romanticism and the "Viola Saga" by Joe Hisaishi

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
4/17 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Bruckner 3

Great symphonies and a new organ piece with Iveta Apkalna

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
5/29 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Mahler 9

Sir Donald Runnicles with Mahler's monumental Ninth Symphony

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
6/19 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Beethoven 7

Tabita Berglund with Wagner, Mozart, and Beethoven

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

8 concerts | 36% off

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

Eight great concerts on Saturdays - this subscription combines programmes with classics such as Beethoven's Fifth and Schubert's ‘Unfinished’ to such popular works as ‘The Planets’ by Holst and the Fourth Symphony by Sir James MacMillan, our Composer in Residence, which he wrote especially for Sir Donald Runnicles.

10/3 Saturday 6:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Brahms 3

Bartók's furious 1st Piano Concerto and Brahmsian Romanticism

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
10/31 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Brahms Violinkonzert

Vadim Gluzman plays one of the great romantic violin concertos.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
12/5 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Tschaikowski Pathétique

Minimal music in the piano double concerto and romantic sound splendor

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
1/16 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Alpensinfonie

Sir Donald Runnicles and Christian Gerhaher with Schubert, Strauss, and Webern

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
3/6 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Also sprach Zarathustra

Julia Fischer with the violin concerto by Barber and Strauss' famous tone poem

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
4/3 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Runnicles mit Sibelius

Sibelius' Second Symphony and a percussion concerto by MacMillan

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
5/8 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Tschaikowski 5

Fate in Symphony and Violin Concerto

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
6/5 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Visions of America

Concert on the occasion of 100 years of Kurt Masur - 10 years of the Kurt Masur Academy

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

6 concerts on Fridays and Saturdays

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

Do you like the classics, but are also curious and open to the unknown? Then this subscription might be the right one for you. With a British viola concerto, Nielsen's poignant Fifth Symphony, the concert performance of Strauss' “Elektra” and the “Seasons” by Glazunov, it brings together works that are rarely heard in the concert hall. You will also experience ‘classics’ such as Schubert's C major Symphony (the ‘Great’) and Brahms' Romantic Symphony No. 4.

10/10 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Mozart Prager Sinfonie

Classical meets accordion

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
11/6 Friday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Runnicles mit Bruckner

Bruckner Symphony and piano legend Emanuel Ax with piano concerto by Beethoven

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
12/19 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Mahler 4

Master conductor Ádám Fischer conducts Haydn and Mahler

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
1/29 Friday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Beethoven Klavierkonzert 5

Kirill Gerstein with piano works by Britten, Adès, and Beethoven

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
3/13 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Grieg Klavierkonzert

Romantic music by Mendelssohn and Grieg and Elgar's "Falstaff" Suite.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
4/23 Friday 7:00 pm

Choir and Orchestra

Beethoven Chorfantasie

Tabita Berglund conducts works from Beethoven to Kurtág

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

7 Concerts at 6 pm

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

Michael Sanderling is our guest on Remembrance Day with a Shostakovich-Kentridge project, star conductor
Kent Nagano conducts Mendelssohn, you will experience the world premiere of the poignant melodrama ‘The Traveller’
with actor Ulrich Noethen and at the same time enjoy such ‘classics’ as
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Dvořák's Symphony ‘From the New World’.

9/13 Sunday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Carmina Burana

The famous choral work with Chief Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
10/25 Sunday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Bolero

From "flame writing" to waltz frenzy

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
11/29 Sunday 6:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Scheherazade

Trumpet Concerto and Enchanting Sounds

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
1/17 Sunday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Alpensinfonie

Sir Donald Runnicles and Christian Gerhaher with Schubert, Strauss, and Webern

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
2/13 Saturday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Dresdner Gedenktag Haydn Messe

Great Oratorios from Classical and Contemporary Times

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
3/28 Sunday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Enigma-Variationen

Sound portraits between England and Spain

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
6/13 Sunday 6:00 pm

Opera in Concert

Beethoven „Leonore“

The early masterpiece of Beethoven with Dorothee Oberlinger

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

6 Concerts at 6 pm

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

These six concerts have it all: you will experience Chief Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles
and old master Christoph Eschenbach on the podium, enjoy Bach's Mass in B minor with the baroque connoisseur par excellence Hans-Christoph Rademann, and will be treated to a Christmas performance by the young trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary.

9/27 Sunday 11:00 am

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Mendelssohn Italienische

Lisa Batiashvili with the Violin Concerto by Sibelius and Mendelssohn's "Italian"

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
11/1 Sunday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Brahms Violinkonzert

Vadim Gluzman plays one of the great romantic violin concertos.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
12/26 Saturday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Tschaikowski und Beethoven

Classical and Romanticism for Christmas

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
2/7 Sunday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Beethoven Klavierkonzert 3

An evening for piano and big questions

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
4/28 Wednesday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

10 Jahre Neuer Konzertsaal

Gala concert with Sir Donald Runnicles and guests

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
5/30 Sunday 6:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Mahler 9

Sir Donald Runnicles with Mahler's monumental Ninth Symphony

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

4 Concerts in the evening

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

With this subscription you are getting the favorites! You will experience our Principal Guest Conductor Tabita Berglund at the
season opener, Artist in Residence Boris Giltburg at the new Steinway grand piano with Beethoven's First Piano
Piano Concerto and Chief Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles on the podium with one of his favourite works, the opera
‘Elektra’ by Richard Strauss, which we will perform in concert.

10/16 Friday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Tabita Berglund mit Schubert

Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante and Schubert's completed "Unfinished"

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
12/18 Friday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Mahler 4

Master conductor Ádám Fischer conducts Haydn and Mahler

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
1/22 Friday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Dvořák „Aus der Neuen Welt“

Kian Soltani plays Elgar's Cello Concerto, accompanied by symphonic works from Bohemia and Finland.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
3/12 Friday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Grieg Klavierkonzert

Romantic music by Mendelssohn and Grieg and Elgar's "Falstaff" Suite.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

5 Concerts on Sunday morning

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

Ravel's phenomenal piano concerto for the left hand with Artist in Residence Boris Giltburg, the impressive young trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary at Christmas, Composer in Residence Sir James
MacMillan as conductor with the Philharmonic Choirs and a work of his own and Shostakovich's
Symphony No. 5 with the charismatic Krzysztof Urbański on the podium - this subscription offers both exclusive music and classics for you on Sunday mornings.

10/4 Sunday 11:00 am

Symphony Concert

Brahms 3

Bartók's furious 1st Piano Concerto and Brahmsian Romanticism

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
12/6 Sunday 11:00 am

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Tschaikowski Pathétique

Minimal music in the piano double concerto and romantic sound splendor

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
12/26 Saturday 11:00 am

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Tschaikowski und Beethoven

Classical and Romanticism for Christmas

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
4/4 Sunday 11:00 am

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Runnicles mit Sibelius

Sibelius' Second Symphony and a percussion concerto by MacMillan

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
5/9 Sunday 11:00 am

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Tschaikowski 5

Fate in Symphony and Violin Concerto

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

5 Concerts on different days of the week

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

We have put together these five concerts for those who love classical music but are also a little adventurous and like to be seduced. Conductors Stéphane Denève with a symphony by Roussel and David Robertson with Janáček's masterpiece, his Glagolitic Mass, provide opportunities for (re)discovery. Principal conductor Sir Donald Runnicles will be at the podium for Dvořák’s Symphony From the New World, and principal guest conductor Tabita Berglund will celebrate the 60th anniversary of our Philharmonischen Chor Dresden.

9/4 Friday 7:00 pm

Choir and Orchestra

Kreuzchor und Philharmonie

Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise" and other works by the Leipzig master.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
10/24 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Bolero

From "flame writing" to waltz frenzy

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
1/23 Saturday 7:00 pm

Special Concert - Symphony Concert

Dvořák „Aus der Neuen Welt“

Kian Soltani plays Elgar's Cello Concerto, accompanied by symphonic works from Bohemia and Finland.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
4/24 Saturday 7:00 pm

Choir and Orchestra

Beethoven Chorfantasie

Tabita Berglund conducts works from Beethoven to Kurtág

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
5/20 Thursday 7:00 pm

Symphony Concert

Glagolitische Messe

Metallic luster, organ power, and Slavic language

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

4-10 concerts / 20%-off

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

Choose between 4 and 10 of our symphony concerts. It is not possible to exchange or return concert dates from an optional subscription. You save 20% compared to the regular price.

4-10 concerts

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

Choose between 4 and 10 of our symphony concerts. It is not possible to exchange or return concert dates from an optional subscription. You save 20% compared to the regular price.

book subscription

4-6 concerts

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

Choose between 4 and 6 concerts. It is not possible to exchange or return concert dates from an optional subscription. You save 20% compared to the regular price.

10/11 Sunday 6:00 pm

Chamber Music

Mozart Serenade

Philharmonic musicians with Mozart's famous chamber music.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
11/8 Sunday 4:00 pm

Chamber Music

Festival der Kammermmusik

Chamber music short concerts, along with conversations with the musicians.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
1/24 Sunday 6:00 pm

Chamber Music

Beethoven Streichquartett

Beethoven's famous Opus 132 and a string quartet by the Composer in Residence

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
3/14 Sunday 11:00 am

Chamber Music

Marbella Fantasy

Chamber music modern

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
5/1 Saturday 6:00 pm

Chamber Music

Sounds of Solidarity

Musical responses to a shaken time

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
5/9 Sunday 6:00 pm

Chamber Music

Schubert Streichquintett

Masterpieces of chamber music from Purcell to Weinberg

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

4-7 concerts

Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

Choose between 4 and 7 concerts. It is not possible to exchange or return concert dates from an optional subscription. You save 20% compared to the regular price.

9/18 Friday 7:30 pm

Short & Casual

abgeFRACKt: City Lights

Classical meets jazz, tango, and film music.

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
10/9 Friday 7:30 pm

Short & Casual

abgeFRACKt: Wilde Träume

Accordion meets fairy tale - Concert of surprises

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
11/28 Saturday 7:30 pm

Short & Casual

abgeFRACKt: Tausendundeine Nacht

Imaginative sound journey into the world of fairy tales

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
2/6 Saturday 7:30 pm

Short & Casual

abgeFRACKt: Beethoven Klangstürme

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
3/5 Friday 7:30 pm

Short & Casual

abgeFRACKt: Galactic Sunrise

Funny classics meets film music

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
4/16 Friday 7:30 pm

Short & Casual

abgeFRACKt: Weltenwandler

When the concert hall becomes a palace of sound

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal
6/18 Friday 7:30 pm

Short & Casual

abgeFRACKt: Licht und Schatten

Energy and Rhythm: Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

As a subscriber, you not only benefit from early information about almost all Dresden Philharmonic events, but also save between approx. 16 and 40% compared to buying individual tickets.

Book selected concerts from one of the following four concert series. You can recognize the optional subscriptions by the markings in the event calendar: WA - flexible subscription symphony concerts WK - flexible subscription chamber concerts Wab - flexible subscription abFRACKt WB - flexible subscription Best of Classics. Depending on availability, the price categories in the individual concerts are variable; the same number of seats must be purchased per concert. You can book as many flexible subscriptions per season as you wish. The flexible subscription ends automatically when you attend the last booked event. Tickets from an optional subscription cannot be exchanged.

Holders of the Dresden Pass and severely disabled persons with a disability of 80 or more receive a 50% discount on the normal price for all subscriptions. Booking is possible at the ticket service.

You can pay for your subscription directly in the webshop by Paypal or credit card, in the ticket service or by bank transfer. You are also welcome to use the direct debit procedure to pay for your fixed subscription (does not apply to optional subscribers, the application form can be found in the download area below).

No more queuing for fixed seat subscriptions thanks to direct debit: you will receive your concert offer and the invoice, and your account will be debited automatically (does not apply to individual subscriptions). We will then send you the tickets: digitally or by post.

As a subscriber, you will receive a one-off customer card from the ticket service. You can use it to take advantage of special and additional offers in the ticket service and in the webshop. The AboCard is valid from the purchase of a season ticket until it is canceled or, in the case of an optional season ticket, until the end of the respective season.

From a fixed seat subscription, you have the opportunity to swap to a suitable concert up to three times per season, as long as seats are available. What's new about this? From the 2025/26 season, exchanges will be free of charge. The best way to make the exchange yourself is via your customer account in the webshop.

The term of the subscription is automatically extended if it is not canceled in writing by 30 APR of the current season. An individual subscription is only valid for the booked concerts of a season and is not extended.

Savings compared to the single ticket

As a subscriber, you not only benefit from a right of first refusal for almost all Dresden Philharmonic events, but also save up to 40 % compared to buying individual tickets.

Exclusively informed

We will inform you in writing about the new concert programs before the start of sales for the coming season. As a subscriber, we will also keep you informed during the season about the program and special features of upcoming concerts, additional events and one-off offers.

As a subscriber, you will receive the season publication for the coming season by mail.

Your seat in the concert hall

Would you like to keep your seat in the concert hall of the Kulturpalast for all Dresden Philharmonic events and continue to see and hear well throughout the season? Or would you prefer to always have new perspectives, experience the concert hall in all its facets and only book a subscription in the course of the season? No problem - we can arrange both options for you as a subscriber, a fixed seat subscription or an individual subscription depending on the concert format, subject to availability. Our ticket service colleagues will be happy to inform you. You can book your subscriptions conveniently in the webshop or on site at the ticket service.

Additional single tickets 10% cheaper

As a subscriber, you have the opportunity to purchase additional tickets for a large number of Dresden Philharmonic concerts with a discount of approx. 10% on the normal price - in our ticket service and in the webshop!