Salzburg Easter Festival 2025 Review: Khovanshchina

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(Credit: Inés Bacher) A mysterious traveler climbed onto the stage, draped in a long garment. A burnished gold and bronze curtain rose slowly on her approach as she sought to enter it. Slowly, a second curtain began to rise. All was suspended, still. It seemed as if time began to peel away. We were elsewhere as well as right there. {…}

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Salzburg Easter Festival Announces 2026 Season

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The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced the 2026 season. From 2026 onwards, the Berliner Philharmoniker will again be holding their traditional Easter Festival in Salzburg, the town where Herbert von Karajan founded this Festival in 1967. The season will begin a new ring cycle that will be seen over the next five years. Here is a look at the vocal {…}

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Salzburg Easter Festival’s ‘La Gioconda’ to Receive Radio Broadcast

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(Credit: Bernd Uhlig) The Salzburg Easter Festival will broadcast a recording of Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda” on Oe1. The recording from opening night on March 23, will be broadcast on April 6, 2024, at 7:30 pm. The recording will feature Anna Netrebko in the title role of La Gioconda, Jonas Kaufmann as Enzo Grimaldo, Tareq Nazmi as Alvise Badoero, Eve-Maud Hubeaux as {…}

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Sondra Radvanovsky, Simon Keenlyside & Andrè Schuen Lead Salzburg Easter Festival’s 2025 Season

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The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced its 2025 season. Modest Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina” will be directed by Simon McBurney and will showcase the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. It will be presented in a version of the unfinished work based solely on the testimonies left behind by Mussorgsky. Performance Dates: TBA Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. {…}

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Salzburg Easter Festival Announces Cast Change for ‘Tannhäuser’

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The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced a cast change for its production of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser.” The company said that “Elīna Garanča has dropped out of the Salzburg Easter Festival as Venus in Richard Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser,’ due to illness. As a result, Emma Bell will perform the part. Bell recently made Wagner debuts in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, and Zurich. She has performed {…}

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Berlin Philharmonic to Return to Salzburg Easter Festival; Leaving Baden-Baden

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The Berlin Philharmonic⁩ will return to Salzburg Easter Festival starting in 2026. The news comes as the orchestra announced that 2025 will be its last year at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. In a statement, Nikolaus Bachler said “the Salzburg Easter Festival will once again have a permanent resident orchestra from 2026: the Berlin Philharmonic. Herbert von Karajan founded the Easter {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Marlis Petersen & Elīna Garança Lead Salzburg Easter Festival’s 2023 Season

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The ⁦Salzburg Easter Festival has announced its 2023 season. The season will present Andris Nelsons conducting Richard Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” in a production by director Romeo Castellucci. The main roles will be sung by Marlis Petersen, Elīna Garança, Jonas Kaufmann, Georg Zeppenfeld, and Christian Gerhaher. The season will include Brahms’ “German Requiem” performed by Bavarian Radio Chorus with soloists Julia Kleiter {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Golda Schultz & Yusif Eyvazov Headline Salzburg Easter Festival’s Revamped Season

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The Salzburg Easter Festival has modified its 2021 program. The company announced that due to COVID-19 restrictions, a new program featuring artists originally announced would be presented. The festival is set to open with a Choral Concert conducted by Christian Thielemann with Golda Schultz, Szilvia Vörös, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, and the Bachchor Salzburg. The concert will feature music by {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann & Renée Fleming Highlight Salzburg Easter Festival’s Streaming Platform

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The Salzburg Easter Festival is launching a streaming platform in collaboration with Unitel. From April 4 through 16, the dates of the festival, there will be free videos of the opera productions from the era of Christian Thielemann/Staatskapelle Dresden from 2013 to 2017. The program kicks off with a 2017 recording of “Die Walküre,” in a production by Vera Nemirova {…}

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Salzburg Easter Festival 2025 Review: Khovanshchina

Salzburg Easter Festival Announces 2026 Season

Salzburg Easter Festival’s ‘La Gioconda’ to Receive Radio Broadcast

Sondra Radvanovsky, Simon Keenlyside & Andrè Schuen Lead Salzburg Easter Festival’s 2025 Season

Salzburg Easter Festival Announces Cast Change for ‘Tannhäuser’

Berlin Philharmonic to Return to Salzburg Easter Festival; Leaving Baden-Baden

Jonas Kaufmann, Marlis Petersen & Elīna Garança Lead Salzburg Easter Festival’s 2023 Season

Anna Netrebko, Golda Schultz & Yusif Eyvazov Headline Salzburg Easter Festival’s Revamped Season

Jonas Kaufmann & Renée Fleming Highlight Salzburg Easter Festival’s Streaming Platform