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Festival director Christian Kuhnt draws a positive conclusion at the end of the 2024 festival season. (Archive photo) © Christian Charisius/dpa
After around eight weeks, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival comes to an end this weekend. The organizers are taking stock.
Lübeck – The Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (SHMF) ends this weekend. At the end of the 2024 festival season, the festival choir will bid farewell to festival visitors on Saturday and Sunday (each at 7.30 p.m.) with two performances of Mozart’s Requiem. The NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra will perform under the direction of Stanislav Kochanowsky. Both concerts are already sold out, the festival announced.
The 39th SHMF season was very successful, said a festival spokeswoman. Around 180,000 tickets were sold for the 203 concerts at 71 locations in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, southern Denmark and northern Lower Saxony. This corresponds to a capacity of 95 percent.
More than 90 SHMF events were dedicated to this year’s focus on Venice. In addition to music from various eras, there were readings inspired by the Venetian carnival, the life of the seducer and womanizer Giacomo Casanova, and the popular songs of the gondoliers. This year’s portrait artist was the Crimean-born saxophonist Asya Fateyeva, who performed in a total of 17 concerts.
