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Obituary for Otto Schenk
Press Release of the Salzburg Festival: Obituary for Otto Schenk Otto Schenk “With the death of Otto Schenk, the theatre world has lost one of its greatest luminaries, an exceptional artist, a true legend! One could not help loving Otto Schenk,” said Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser in an initial statement. “Otto Schenk influenced the Salzburg…
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Final Report on the 2024 Salzburg Festival
After 172 performances over 44 days at 15 venues, the Directorate of the Salzburg Festival, Kristina Hammer, Markus Hinterhäuser and Lukas Crepaz, is delighted to announce that the percentage of occupied seats reached 98.2%. Lukas Crepaz, Kristina Hammer and Markus Hinterhaeuser, photo SF/Peter Rigaud More than 250.000 visitors from 77 countries, 40 of them non-European,…
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Cecilia Bartoli prvič kot Sesto v Mozartovem Titusu
Salzburške slavnostne igre vsako leto ponovijo po eno opero z Binkoštnega festivala, ki ga oblikuje umetniška voditeljica in nastopajoča pevka, solistka, italijanska glasbenica, Rimljanka, mezzosopranistka Cecilia Bartoli. Alexandra Marcellier (Vitellia) in Cecilia Bartoli (Sesto), vse fotografije SF/Marco Borrelli Njena svetovna slava se vsakokrat ali vedno znova pokaže kot rezultat večdesetletne izjemne kariere in vokalne vzdržljivosti,…
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Salzburg Festival 2024: New Don Giovanni
Romeo Castellucci first directed a production at the Salzburg Festival in 2018, Richard Strauss’ Salome. In 2021, this was followed by Mozart’s Don Giovanni and in 2022 by Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Orff’s De temporum fine comoedia on the Felsenreitschule stage. This summer, the Großes Festspielhaus will see the revival of his Don Giovanni. Terrace Talk „Don Giovanni“ 2024: Davide Luciano (Don Giovanni), Romeo…
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Inauguration of The New Salzburg Festival Archive
Festival Archive will be Inaugurated with Open House Days and the Revival of the FAUST 2023 Project from 7 to 10 February 2024. Exterior of the villa at Neutorstraße 25, photo SF/Leo Neumayr “The history of the Salzburg Festival also embodies 100 years of European cultural history. It is our responsibility to both question and…
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The Salzburg Festival’s youth programme
“Oh, if only I had believed my daughter!” laments the father. After all, she had warned him about the king’s suspiciousness. When her father discovers a valuable object, the king accuses him of keeping a part of it for himself. The father is promptly thrown in prison. Hearing his cries of woe, the king summons…
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Benefit Gala of the 2023 Salzburg Whitsun Festival Netted more than 186.000 Euros
On the occasion of Daniel Barenboim’s 80th birthday, Cecilia Bartoli and the Salzburg Whitsun Festival presented a benefit gala for the Daniel Barenboim Foundation. On 29 May 2023, Cecilia Bartoli, Sonya Yoncheva, Rolando Villazón, Plácido Domingo, Martha Argerich and Lang Lang performed at the Großes Festspielhaus for and together with Daniel Barenboim. Charity Gala Hommage Daniel…
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Salzburg Festival 2024 – Concerts (3)
The Festival’s co-founder Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the 150th anniversary of whose birth is celebrated in 2024, is credited with the following statement: “Painting transforms space into time; music transforms time into space.” This aphorism is characteristic for the discussion about the fracturing of the time-space continuum – a discussion nascent in the early 20th century, especially in…
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Salzburg Festival 2024 – Opera (2)
OPERA Jacques Offenbach LES CONTES D´HOFFMANN Sergei Prokofiev THE GAMBLER Mieczysław Weinberg THE IDIOT Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DON GIOVANNI Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Ambroise Thomas HAMLET (Concert Performance) Richard Strauss CAPRICCIO (Concert Performance) Luigi Dallapiccola IL PRIGIONIERO / Luigi Nono IL CANTO SOSPESO (Concert Performance) Georg Friedrich Haas KOMA (Concert Performance) Beat Furrer BEGEHREN (Concert Performance) Jacques Offenbach LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN Mariame Clément, photo Elise Haberer The French director Mariame…
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Salzburg Festival 2024 (1)
Movements between heaven and hell connect the works featured in the Salzburg Festival’s 2024 programme: conjuring up the innate beauty of the immeasurable and the ‘demonic’ abysses hidden within it, revealing infinite solitude and dizzying godless freedom. Martha Jungwirth – Illustrations in the Season Programme Brochure Such are the lives lived by enduring archetypal figures…
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Salzburg Festival 2023: 241,000 visitors from 79 nations
After 178 performances spread over 43 days at 15 venues, the Directorate of the Salzburg Festival, Kristina Hammer, Markus Hinterhäuser and Lukas Crepaz, is delighted to report that the 2023 season was an extraordinarily successful one. Les Troyens 2023: Ashley Riches (Panthée), Laurence Kilsby (Iopas / Hylas), William Thomas (Narbal), Beth Taylor (Anna), Dinis Sousa (Conductor),…
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Hankyeol Yoon is the 2023 Winner of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award
Hankyeol Yoon convinced the international jury chaired by Manfred Honeck during the 2023 YCA Award Concert Weekend, taking the prize after leading a concert with the Camerata Salzburg at the Main Auditorium of the Mozarteum Foundation. Jury chairman Manfred Honeck with the winner Hankyeol Yoon, photo SF/Jan Friese “323 candidates from 54 nations applied to compete in the…