From May to August 2025, the Anhalt Theatre Dessau, the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation and the Ringhotel ‘Zum Stein’ are once again inviting visitors to the Garden Kingdom Summer. The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom will be celebrating a special anniversary in 2025: It will be celebrating its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site 25 years ago. The unique, self-contained landscape of gardens and palaces was thus recognised as one of the most important cultural landscapes in the world. The Garden Kingdom Summer will open on 16 and 17 May 2025 at Wörlitz Palace with the concert ‘Heaven in the Heart’. Under this motto, Prof Ragna Schirmer will present works by Joseph Haydn, Leopold Koželuh, Maria Theresia Paradis and Franz Schubert on the historic fortepiano.

The palace concerts ‘La Hortensia virtuosa – The virtuoso garden’ on 1 June at Luisium Palace, ‘Baroque with flute’ on 29 June at Oranienbaum Palace and ‘Hommage à Dmitri Shostakovich on the 50th anniversary of his death’ at the end of the Garden Kingdom Summer on 31 August at Mosigkau Palace also offer a top-class artistic programme. Next summer, the Wörlitz, Oranienbaum and Luisium parks will once again host walking and coffee concerts, inviting visitors to enjoy entertainment in a cosy natural setting.