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Salzburg Festival 2024 Review: Lea Desandre, Thomas Dunford, & Ensemble Jupiter

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(Photo credit: SF/Marco Borrelli) Thomas Dunford and Lea Desandre are pop. Young, synergetic, and talented, they exude a pop quality even when they are not singing the Beatles. It is a fresh thing that makes them desirable and somehow accessible. But how many people can play the lute like Thomas and sing like Lea? In their Salzburg recital, their pop-ness {…}

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Salzburg Festival Workshops Reveals New Concert Shell For the Haus für Mozart

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(Photo credit: SF/Neumayr/Leo) Salzburg Festival Workshops has revealed its newly constructed concert shell for the Haus für Mozart. The new shell has significantly improved the acoustic performance conditions at the venue. Designed and constructed in the Festival’s own workshops, the concert room is a tailored construction consisting of two side walls, a back wall and a ceiling. This also enables musicians to {…}

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Salzburg Festival to Celebrate Plácido Domingo’s 50th Anniversary

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The Salzburg Festival is set to celebrate Plácido Domingo’s 50th anniversary with the festival. In a statement, the company said, “Plácido Domingo first appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1975 and today we are celebrating half a century together. He has accompanied us in an incredible 17 opera productions and ten concert evenings. That’s why we can hardly wait for this {…}

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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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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 {…}