Overview

• Several thousand visitors attended the opening evening of the 26th festival in Park Sanssouci despite temperatures below 20°C.
• Organizers project more than 30,000 attendees across the two nights of programming on Friday and Saturday.
• Dance professional Christian Polanc led public lessons that got large groups of guests moving.
• Actor Benno Fürmann delivered a reading from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby accompanied by 1920s jazz and swing.
• Artists and musicians performed at multiple stations across the festively illuminated UNESCO-listed grounds.