31st Kurt Weill Festival starts in a few weeks.

In just under a month, the 31st Kurt Weill Festival will begin. From Feb. 24-March 12, 2023, the renowned international cultural festival will take place at a total of 16 new and well-known venues in and around Weill’s birthplace of Dessau.

This year’s Kurt Weill Festival, whose motto this year is “In the Sign of Upheaval,” will feature a total of 47 high-quality musical program items. The audience can expect a journey back in time to the turbulent “Golden Twenties”, in which both the intoxicating, excessively partying and progressive side of this era will be illuminated, as well as the poverty, fear and uncertainty that characterized it just as much. At the same time, the Kurt Weill Festival in 2023 will once again bridge the gap to the present day – through a diverse and innovative program ranging from classical to pop, rap, jazz and musical, as well as moving themes and musical discourse.

“We are very pleased that this program is so well received,” says musicologist Constanze Mitter, who shares artistic direction of the festival with music producer Gerhard Kämpfe. Tickets for some concerts are still available.
Particularly popular, says Mitter, are the events featuring artist-in-residence Sebastian Knauer. Those who want to experience the world-renowned pianist live can do so, among other things, in the program of a piano recital with Sebastian Knauer, “Songbook: Gershwin and Weill – Brothers on Broadway.” It will take place on Friday, 10.03.2023, 20.00 o’clock, in the Marienkirche in Dessau.