The city of Dresden is receiving a grant of €15 million from the KulturInvest funding program of the German Government for the construction of a building for the new Richard Wagner Academy of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele.
The aim is to create an internationally oriented competence center for 19th century romantic orchestral and operatic practice. In addition to a concert hall with 600 seats, the new building on the Königsufer – opposite Dresden’s old town – will include an orchestra and choir rehearsal hall, workshop, archive and seminar rooms. The goal is to establish a place for training, research, performance and debate with global appeal on the banks of the Elbe, based on the 19th century tradition of world premieres in Dresden.
With The Wagner Cycles project, the Dresdner Musikfestspiele has enriched the performance practice of Richard Wagner’s music. Richard Wagner’s Der Ring der Nibelungen will be scientifically reworked from 2023 to 2026. This historically informed approach is now being given a permanent home in order to make the global demand for the findings available for practical use, to develop them further and to work on them practically with artists in workshops and academy formats.
