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.