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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…
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Macbeth je zgodba o človeku, ki ga preganjajo dvomi
Na Salzburških slavnostnih tednih sta bili že dve operni premieri. Najprej so v Hiši za Mozarta uprizorili Mozartovo Figarovo svatbo v režiji slovenskega režiserja Martina Kušeja, sicer direktorja dunajskega Burgteatra, ter v kostumografiji Ljubljančana Alana Hranitelja, sledila pa je premiera Verdijevega Macbetha v Veliki festivalski dvorani. Tu objavljam razmišljanje dramaturga predstave o svojem videnju Macbetha,…
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Salzburg Festival: Falstaff „Almost incessant acceleration“
Falstaff is the third of Verdi’s Shakespeare operas, while also his second comical and the last opera he wrote – this year, the Salzburg Festival presents a new production of this work. A premiere for Ingo Metzmacher, who conducts it for the first time. “I have conducted a lot of Verdi, however,” he assured those unlikely to…
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Alan Hranitelj s kostumografijo in Martin Kušej z režijo Figarove svatbe
Svetovno znani slovenski kostumograf Alan Hranitelj pripravlja kostumografijo za operno premiero Mozartove Figarove svatbe v režiji prav tako svetovno znanega slovenskega režiserja Martina Kušeja na Salzburških slavnostnih igrah, ki bo doživela premiero jutri, 27. julija, v Hiši za Mozarta. Avstrijski radio bo premiero neposredno predvajal jutri ob 18. uri, tako kot pripravlja video prenos pariška…
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Peter Sellars in Salzburg: “Music attempts to translate the inaudible“
Before the Ouverture spirituelle begins with Sofia Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun and Heinrich Schütz’ Musikalische Exequien, performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale in a production by Peter Sellars, Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser described this year’s concert series. Markus Hinterhäuser and Peter Sellars, photo SF/Jan Friese “It’s a very special week for us. It gives us the opportunity to set the pulse…