Music: Concert at the Monastery Marks the Rheingau Music Festival Finale

The Rheingau Music Festival ended in the medieval basilica of Eberbach Abbey with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Lobgesang Symphony. The Dresden Kreuzchor and Dresden Philharmonic performed the work for around 1,300 listeners.

The closing concert was sold out, according to the organizers. Eberbach Abbey, a former Cistercian monastery in a Taunus valley, gained international recognition as a filming location for the movie The Name of the Rose.

Organizers described this year’s festival as a success. Since its opening on June 20, the event presented 152 concerts at 26 venues and reached an occupancy rate of about 91%. It sold around 6,000 more tickets than the previous year.

The 39th edition offered about 130,000 tickets and featured more than 3,000 artists. The festival, based in Oestrich-Winkel on the Rhine, will now turn to its anniversary edition. The 40th festival is scheduled to run from June 19 to September 4, 2027, with a program spanning classical music, jazz and pop.

Sponsors, ticket sales and a support association provide most of the festival’s funding. Organizers said total costs again reached eight million euros, while the state of Hesse contributed 25,000 euros.