Festival Maribor

Same time, same place

We've made it. And how! Not a concert cancelled, not a ticket returned and last but not least – not a single case of infection or medical issues. Noone thought the later will ever find it's way into a classical music festival newsletter – but, no one expected half of the things the year 2020 has brought upon us!

Challenges, which we have faced and with much help from you, our faithful audiences, managed brilliantly. We are grateful for your kind acceptance of all the changes the 2020 Festival Maribor had to make. We appreciate you...

30.09.2020 More

Going out with a bang!

Organising a festival in times of COVID 19 felt like dancing on the verge of a volcano. Everybody on their toes, because everybody knew it might all go well, but it might just as well turn into mayhem all of a sudden, and end up with a massive explosion.

It indeed was an unchartered territory, which came with a complex mix of big emotions and overwhelming moments.

Remember how our stellar guest, Vilde Frang, described playing a ...

25.09.2020 More

Oh, my Bach!

It happened. What we all feared from day one, but hoped to avoid. We did all that we could, but the virus that managed to put the whole world under its reign, once more proved its crown is a powerful omen, ruling over everything we do these days, Festival Maribor's programme schedule no exception.

Lawrence Power, the eagerly anticipated third of our "all-star trio" is not being able to attend the festival due to the pandemic travel r...

21.09.2020 Več

EVENT BROCHURE

Beethoven and a prince?

In fairy tales, the oldest sibling is always loved the most by the parents, and therefore usually aloof, selfish, and quite simple mean to the younger ones. The youngest though, no matter how neglected, is the one whose quiet beauty, good soul and gentle character win the sympathies of readers. It is always the one who gets the prince (or princess) in the end A happy end, of course.

In the case of Beethoven's sister compositions, the well-known and overwhelmingly popular Ninth Symphony and its lesser-known little sister, Choral...

17.09.2020 Več

Beethoven and aliens

People say music is a language anyone speaks and understands. Even the aliens. Just remember the five-note sequence from Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which convinced the visitors from space that humans are too good to be blown into pieces. That same task is put before Beethoven. His Fifth Symphony, floating with the Voyager 2 in outer space, is among the selected music tasked with a gargantuan mission: to present the possible intelligent creatures out there with a comprehensive explanation of life on Earth and tens of thous...