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Salzburg Festival Announces 2024 Young Artists

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The Salzburg Festival has selected the Young Singers for the 2024 season. The 16 participants were selected among more than 700 applicants and hail from ten nations: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Russia, Turkey, the USA and Uzbekistan. Led this year by Malcolm Martineau, Violeta Urmana, and Stéphane Degout, they said, “This format of advanced vocal education includes {…}
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Salzburg Festival Extends Artistic Director’s Contract

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The Salzburg Festival has announced that Markus Hinterhäuser will remain the company’s Artistic Director. In a statement the festival said, that the Board of Trustees of the Salzburg Festival made an important decision for the organization’s future and extended the contract of Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser for five years. As a result, he will remain in his position until 2031. {…}
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Salzburg Festival Announces Keynote Speaker for 2024 Edition

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The Salzburg Festival has announced the keynote speaker for the 2024 opening ceremony, The festival said that Nina Khrushcheva will do the honors and will “address one of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s main premises that beauty will save the world. In the current political and cultural environment of war, crisis, animosity, and division, what is the role of art?” In a statement, {…}
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Salzburg Festival Raises 186,000 Euros for Daniel Barenboim Foundation

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(Credit: © SF/Marco Borrelli) The Salzburg Festival has announced that during a benefit gala, it raised revenues exceeding 186,000 Euros. The company noted that the revenue was raised during Daniel Barenboim’s 80th birthday gala which was presented for the Daniel Barenboim Foundation. The gala was held on May 29, 2023, and featured Cecilia Bartoli, Sonya Yoncheva, Rolando Villazón, Plácido Domingo, Martha {…}
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Benjamin Bernheim Asmik Grigorian, Juan Diego Florez, Elīna Garanča & Cecilia Bartoli Lead Salzburg Festival’s 2024 Season

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(Credit: © SF / Peter Rigaud) The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2024 Season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Opera Strauss’ “Caprricio” is set to be performed in concert form with Elsa Dreisig and Bo Skovhus as Countess and Count. The cast also includes Sebastian Kohlhepp (Flamand), Konstantin Krimmel (Olivier), Mika Kares (La Roche), Ève-Maud Hubeaux (Clairon), {…}
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Salzburg Festival 2023 Review: Les Troyens

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Photo: © Marco Borrelli Berlioz’s “Les Troyens” is one of those operas that is larger than life. Arguably, two operas in one night. Everything sounds like the realization of romanticism’s epic promise and showcases the musicians’ talents overflowing in the hall. It is hard to not expect a lot from a performance of Berlioz’s opera with a revolutionary and Romantique {…}
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Salzburg Festival Releases Final Report for 2023

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(Photo credit: Marco Borrelli) The Salzburg Festival has released the final report for its 2023 edition. In its 103rd year, the Salzburg Festival held 178 performances over 43 days at 15 venues. Directors of the Salzburg Festival, Kristina Hammer, Markus Hinterhäuser and Lukas Crepaz reported a “record quota” of 98.5% of seats filled at the 2023 festival. Over 241,000 visitors {…}
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Salzburg Festival Announces Continued Support of The Würth Group

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The Salzburg Festival has announced that The Würth Group will continue to provide support for the organization’s Youth Programme and the Ouverture Spirituelle in 2024. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhold Würth’s first donation to the festival came in 2016 for the production of “West Side Story.” Since then he has been a support of the concert series “Ouverture Spirituelle” and the {…}

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