BLOND x Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie

A unique highlight awaits you on the first day of the festival: exclusively for KOSMOS, a special live show has been arranged where BLOND will perform together with the renowned Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra of Theater Chemnitz on the stage at Theaterplatz.

🎫 Important note: As with all other KOSMOS program points, entry to Theaterplatz is free of charge. However, due to limited capacity, a pre-reserved free ticket is absolutely necessary.

UPDATE: Wow, we are overwhelmed. All tickets are sold out. There will be no possibility to visit the concert spontaneously or to get a ticket on site.

BLOND

If you’ve never been to a Blond concert, you’ve never truly lived. Sooner or later, everyone has stumbled into a club or festival and been swept away by the incredible pull of Lotta, Johann, and Nina’s world — only to strut in next time, loud and proud, in a glitter outfit.

Because after just a few minutes, you realize: a Blond concert is a goddamn mass. You pick up the fan chants after one and a half rounds — and you won’t stop singing them even when security is already sweeping you out. You sigh along to sweet pop ballads as you lift off into distant spheres, stomp your foot to defiant anthems, and feel yourself grounded again. Blond’s songs come with just the right amount of bitterness, but always carry a hugging irony that sends you out of the mass joyful and triumphant.

Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie

The Robert Schumann Philharmonic is one of Germany’s most tradition-rich orchestras. Founded in 1833 as the city orchestra by Wilhelm August Mejo in Chemnitz, it gradually gained nationwide significance. When the new opera house opened in 1909, Oscar Malata became its first general music director. Guest conductors such as Richard Strauss, Fritz Busch, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Arthur Nikisch, Arnold Schoenberg, Max Reger, and Paul Hindemith graced its stage. Between 1945 and 1974, Rudolf Kempe, Martin Egelkraut, Robert Satanowski, Gert Bahner, and Gerhard Rolf Bauer shaped the orchestra. Under the nearly 20-year tenure of Dieter-Gerhardt Worm, the orchestra received its current name. After the opera house reopened in 1992, John Carewe (1993–1996), Oleg Caetani (1996–2001), and Nikša Bareza (2001–2007) followed. Between 2007 and 2016, Frank Beermann focused on CD productions, which brought the orchestra widespread attention and awards such as the ECHO Klassik. After Felix Bender served as acting GMD in 2016/2017, Guillermo García Calvo was general music director of Theater Chemnitz from 2017 to 2023.

In recent years, conductors such as Hermann Bäumer, Stefan Blunier, Peter Eötvös, Lawrence Foster, Peter Gülke, Leopold Hager, Pedro Halffter, Michail Jurowski, and Stefan Soltész, as well as soloists such as Frank Dupree, Veronika Eberle, Alban Gerhardt, Boris Giltburg, Bernd Glemser, Xavier de Maistre, Albrecht Mayer, Herbert Schuch, Valeriy Sokolov, Martin Stadtfeld, Jan Vogler, Carolin Widmann, Jörg Widmann, and the ensemble Kolsimcha have been guests in Chemnitz.

The Robert Schumann Philharmonic is a sought-after partner for various concert organizers. Guest performances have taken them to places such as New York, Venice, Thessaloniki, Rome, Salzburg, Spain, Zurich, Linz, Vienna, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, as well as festivals at Neuschwanstein Castle and KlassikSommer Hamm. In addition to opera, operetta, musicals, and ballet, their work includes regular symphony concerts, chamber music evenings, and concerts in both large and small formations. A special focus is placed on children’s and youth outreach