Festivaleröffnung

In the organizer's words:

Opera

Choral performance, welcome and party with LUVA (DJ set)

FESTIVAL OPENING the first day of the festival 5.30 pm ABOUT THE NEW - CHORIC PERFORMANCE 400 pupils from the Freie Waldorfschule Neckarau will transform the "Garden of the Arts" into a resonating space for the festival opening. Texts from science and poetry as well as sounds, created with voices, bodies and everyday objects, condense into a choral landscape between order and noise. The ceremonial opening speech and the first brushstroke by Anik Lazar will be followed by the festival premiere of "The Magic Flute". Festival Center, "Garden of the Arts" 6.00 - 6.30 p.m. WELCOME The Mannheim Summer 2026 begins - let yourselves be unbounded! Festival Center, "Garden of the Arts" 6.30 p.m. SLIME STUDIES - FIRST PINSELSTRICH Artist Anik Lazar opens her studio on the festival grounds and begins her largest painting from the SLIME STUDIES series to date on a canvas stretched across the OPAL building. Festival Center, "Garden of the Arts" 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE - PREMIERE A grand opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart OPAL 9 p.m. - 9.45 p.m. Mozart. Schwarzenegger. Hitler. Music performance between megalomania, trash & populism Festival Center from 10.00 p.m. OPENING PARTY with LUVA (DJ set) Festival Center This content has been machine translated.