The Rheingau Music Festival 2025 opens this year's program with two festive concerts on 21 and 22 June. On both concert evenings, the hr Symphony Orchestra and the MDR Radio Choir will perform under the direction of Alain Altinoglu. Violinist Diana Adamyan will kick off the concert at Kloster Eberbach with virtuoso works by Pablo de Sarasate and Franz Waxman. The following evening at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, pianist Beatrice Rana will play the solo part in Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. Charles Gounod's "Cäcilienmesse" forms the festive conclusion to both concerts.

The Rheingau Music Festival 2025 takes a direct and indirect look at the musical side of selected dances in eleven concerts of its "Dance in Music" focus and gives the music of waltzes, flamenco and co. the most beautiful stages in and around the Rheingau. As part of the country focus "Spain", not only the most famous compositions of Spanish music history will be heard, but also the unique rhythms of characteristic castanets and passionate and gentle guitar music. Authentic Spanish musicians bring their personal timbres from their homeland to the numerous festival stages, where traditional flamenco also unfolds its full splendor in sound and movement.

The composer Maurice Ravel would have been 150 years old in 2025. Just one of many reasons and a welcome occasion to focus on his life and work in eleven concerts at this year's Rheingau Music Festival. Next summer - in keeping with the focus on Spain - the music around and from Bizet's "Carmen" will be explored from different perspectives in nine concerts: Whether with orchestra and vocals or in exciting instrumentations and new arrangements, for example for brass, several guitars or accordion - this music still enjoys great popularity today and has lost none of its fascination.

In the "Excellent!" series, which was launched last year, selected competition winners are recognized and given the opportunity to present themselves to a wide audience in a fresh and passionate way. The Rheingau Music Festival sees its task not only in bringing the greatest international artists to the region, but also in taking responsibility for the next generation of artists.

This year's festival summer offers 154 concerts at 27 venues in the Rheingau and neighboring regions. Over 140,000 tickets are available for the concerts.

The main venues are Schloss Johannisberg, Kloster Eberbach, Schloss Vollrads and the Kurhaus Wiesbaden. There are also numerous churches and wineries in the Rheingau, Rheinhessen and Wiesbaden. This year, the Schafhof stud farm in Kronberg is once again represented as a venue. For the first time after a long break, there will also be a concert in the Unionskirche in Idstein. The Rheingau Music Festival 2025 will be held for the first time at the Stadthalle in Oberursel and the Reinhard Ernst Museum in Wiesbaden.

In 2025, idyllic venues will once again open their doors to pure reading pleasure. For this year's grape harvest, a weekend in late summer from August 21 to 24 and another at the end of September from September 27 to 28 will bring a literary vintage to unique cultural venues in the Rheingau with a total of seven readings. Renowned authors will enter into dialog with well-known presenters about their respective books and give samples from them. This year's venues include Burg Schwarzenstein, the Baron Knyphausen winery, Schloss Johannisberg, the WALD.WEIT Rheingau Hotel & Retreat and Villa Belvedere. The program can be found below.