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Salzburg Festival: Ingolstadt “Emanating from Darkness”
Ivo van Hove makes his directing debut at the Salzburg Festival with the new production of Ingolstadt, a combination of Marieluise Fleißer’s seminal plays Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt and Pioniere in Ingolstadt presented as a co-production with the Burgtheater in Vienna. Opening the event, Bettina Hering quoted Elfriede Jelinek, describing the suggestive power of Fleißer’s texts: “Poets can…
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Salzburg Festival: Schnitzler’s Reigen “A Polyphony of Desire”
In 1896/1897, Arthur Schnitzler wrote the first version of his Reigen, followed by an unauthorized world premiere in Budapest and an authorized one in Berlin in 1920. This led to a theatrical scandal so luridly sensational that Schnitzler himself banned performances of his piece, an interdiction only lifted in 1982. Yana Ross, Director and Bettina…