The cultural festival invites you to a spring stay in the royal grounds of the Saxon State Spa.
. "From the ice, streams and brooks are freed, by the spring's fair, revitalising glance; in the valley, hopeful happiness greens..." These world-famous words mark the beginning of Goethe's Easter Walk, a classic of world literature. The cultural and festival town of Bad Elster is now presenting this "Hopeful Happiness in the Elster Valley" as the Chursächsischer Frühlingszauber (Spring Magic of Saxony) to kick off the season in the blossoming royal grounds of the spa town. The fourth edition of the enchanting spring festival will take place from 14 March to 27 April 2025 and, in addition to numerous first-class cultural and theatre events on the "festival mile of short distances", will offer a moving ArtFest weekend in the Capital of Culture region (11.-13 April) and royal Easter holidays around the decorated Easter fountain (17.04.-21.04.).
The centre of the cultural spring growth is the historic King Albert Theatre. Highlights here include Goethe's classic play "Faust" (15 March), the operetta classic "Die Fledermaus" (28 March) and an operetta gala (05.04.) for the Johann Strauss Year 2025, a symphony concert with the choir of the Frauenkirche Dresden for the 17th Frauenkirchentag in Bad Elster (12 April) and the musical experiences "Avanti! Avanti!" with Stefanie Hertel (19 April) and "Cabaret" on 25 April. But numerous stars also flourish on Bad Elster's stage: guests from near and far can look forward to an evening of Loriot by Christine Sommer & Martin Brambach (30 March), the "Jedermann" by star actor Philipp Hochmair (13 April), the top brass band (13 April), the "Jedermann" by Philipp Hochmair (13 April).), the top brass band Harmonic Brass (29 March), the harpist Silke Aichhorn (2 April), the world star violist Nils Mönkemeyer (17 April) or a Schumann evening by Ragna Schirmer & Dominique Horwitz (27 April). Bad Elster is also home to a rock'n'roll show (22 March), a bird wedding family musical (6 April), an Easter hit night with Stefan Mross (20 April) and light-hearted cabaret evenings with Heinz Klever (16 March) and Christine Schütze (26 April).
Bad Elster offers a unique atmosphere for this springtime magic with its artfully designed royal grounds of sophisticated spa and park architecture and the seven historic venues. With the Soletherme & the wellness centre in the Albert Bad, the Saxon Bath Museum, exciting exhibitions or various themed tours and chamber music programmes by ensembles of the Chursächsische Philharmonie, Bad Elster offers a high quality of stay. This is rounded off by the glittering world of lights in the Royal Gardens. Here, guests can stroll through the spring scent of the extensive parks every day, let their senses be touched and experience the architectural beauties as the spring magic of Bad Elster in atmospheric places in a glittering natural setting: "Satisfied jubilation for young and old: Here I am human, here I can be!"
