The Dresden Music Festival, which celebrated its 40th year in 2017, is one of the largest and most renowned classical music festivals in Europe and presents a top-class program of exceptional density and diversity every year between May and June over four and a half weeks. Brilliant orchestra concerts, multi-faceted chamber music, celebrated soloists - in the dialogue between the important and formative voices of the international classical music scene and the unique cultural and historical environment, Dresden becomes a vibrant festival city whose message of a cosmopolitan, diverse and lively cultural metropolis shines nationally and internationally.