Festival Maribor

What a fantastic year it is going to be!

Dear friends,

2017 is almost over. It’s been a great year for Festival Maribor, and we are happy we got to share it with you! We thank you for your support and friendship and hope you will join us again in Maribor from September 20^th until September 29^th 2018 for new musical adventures!

It’s almost time for presents and nice surprises, and we are happy to announce we have one, too! A great one, so we can’...

18.12.2017 More

Musical absolution

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? “, cleverly remarked Groucho Marx. Well, definitely not artists! Their divorce rate (which in past times also meant scandal) is significantly higher than the one of mere mortals. Why? I’m no artist and no expert on the subject (read: not married to an artist) so my answer is a pure speculation (but such a one I would dare to wager my husband upon): because they want (read: need) their freedom!

Freedom to create and live in a realm, which has no...

12.09.2017 More

It’s all in the method!

As said in our first newsletter, being romantic is not easy. For all of you who struggle we have checked a WikiHow page with a step by step guide. Here are some of the recommended methods (yes, this is the expression they are using!).

Method one is called “be thoughtful” and suggests buying thoughtful gifts, taking your love on thoughtful dates and leaving thoughtful notes. Method two is called “be creative“...

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THEME 2017

Deep emotions

Oh, love! The joy. The passion. The bliss. The yearning. The tears. The suffering. The agony! Love unrequited. Love ended. Lovers separated. Lovers dead. Hearts broken.

Ah, so much pain.

How glad we must be for it. For without it, we would be robbed of some of the most beautiful music ever written! And being a festival with a heart & forever tattoo it is simply a must to include it in our programs.

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Pure sources

Pure source is a riddle. Poems even
May hardly show the solutions. For as
You started, you will continue,
Whatever the workings of discipline
Or necessity; for most is
Achieved by birth
And the ray of light
That meets the new-born infant.*

Let’s be romantic and start this writing with one of world’s greatest Romantics - Hölderlin! His description of the river Rhine is a perfec...
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