Cooperation with the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg

The Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci is unthinkable without its longstanding, close cooperation, and immediate link to the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg. The Foundation maintains one-of-a-kind palaces and gardens that have become UNESCO World Heritage and it turns history and history’s reappraisal into a contemporary event. The venues and places are inextricably connected with the artistic creation, the music, and the zeitgeist of the eras when they were built. And quite a few of them were in fact built with the intention of creating venues for the staging of music as well as musical theatre. Consequently the Music Festival – established in 1991 and derived from the Park Festival Sanssouci, which in turn had been put on since 1954 – and the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten consider it their joint task and mission to celebrate and uphold this tradition of musical culture inspired by the Prussian Courts of the Muses and to furthermore make it accessible to new audiences by means of presenting lively, top performances of uniquely location-specific concert formats. Each festival season this liaison creates and fosters a unique, incredibly diverse and forever new interplay of artistic setting, spaces, music, aesthetics, artists, visitors, history and the present day.

The special place 2025:

The New Palace – a royal boast

After the hardships of the Seven Years' War, Frederick the Great wanted to demonstrate his power with a prestigious new palace: He had the New Palace built at the western end of the main avenue of Sanssouci, with magnificent banqueting halls and galleries, princely flats and a mysteriously glittering grotto hall. After years of renovation, Prince Henry's flat with its opulent silk wallpaper and exquisite furnishings, the Upper Gallery with its legendary paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and the Grotto Hall will be reopened to the marvelling public in summer 2025.

Visitors to the Music Festival receive a voucher for 2 tickets to visit the castle for the price of one (€14), valid until 31.10.2025. Open daily except Tuesdays; 1 April - 31 October: 10 am - 5.30 pm, last admission 5 pm (with audio guide app or guided tour; tickets & information on tour times are available at the visitor centre). Please check the current opening times at www.spsg.de.

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Funding project 2025

Festival visitors support a special project:

Bed sponsorships in the Pleasureground at Schloss Babelsberg

Climate change poses major challenges for Babelsberg Park. Just like Prince Pückler's ‘palace rooms in the open air’, the small flowerbeds with their clay edging of lilies, palmettes, acanthus leaves, blossoms or shells also need attention. As part of the cooperation with the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, the 2025 Music Festival is supporting this park maintenance project.

With the purchase of each ticket, you contribute €1. Thank you!