The largest vocal festival in Rhineland-Palatinate
From Ingelheim to Rolandseck, the Rhine covers about 120 kilometers, the SWR recorded over 90% of all sounds at the RheinVokal festival that were sung, read, spoken, made music, you could find an OB car on the banks of the Rhine between Ingelheim and Rolandsecke almost every 8 kilometers see.
Because RheinVokal is not only the largest vocal festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, but also the festival with the largest early music focus in the state and thus one of the most important factors in the musical culture of an entire region. A matter of the heart for SWR2.
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The Rhine was already the auditorium of top European music in the classical period, between Mannheim and Mainz, Koblenz and Bonn, with court orchestras full of geniuses. For the poet Heinrich Heine, the Rhine was another word for home, the composer Jacques Offenbach even had mermaids swim in the Rhine – in a great romantic opera. And above all enthroned the Loreley, without whose myth German romanticism would be inconceivable.
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