Festspiel Baden-Baden

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The Festspiel Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden Festival) is a series of festivals presented by the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in Baden-Baden, Germany. The programme is structured around four annual festival periods dispersed throughout the year. The Whitsun, Summer, Autumn and Winter Festivals each incorporate at least one opera production and several classical concerts.

The Summer 2006 Festival included a production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, while the coming year contained:

Autumn Festival from 3 to 9 October 2006, with a production of Don Giovanni.
Winter Festival from 15 to 21 January 2007, with productions of Turandot, Madama Butterfly, and La Bohème.
Herbert von Karajan Whitsun Festival from 25 May to 3 June 2007, with a production of Falstaff
Summer Festival from 6 to 13 July 2007, with a production of Tosca.

Major opera productions at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden to date include La Traviata (Valery Gergiev, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2001), Fidelio (Simone Young, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2002), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Marc Minkowski, conductor / Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps, directors, 2003), The Ring of the Nibelung (Valery Gergiev, musical direction and concept / George Tsypin, stage design, 2003/2004), Rigoletto (Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2004), Parsifal (Kent Nagano, conductor / Nikolaus Lehnhoff, director, 2004) and Die Zauberflöte (Claudio Abbado, conductor / Daniele Abbado, director, 2005).