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Salzburg Festival 2023 Review: Orfeo ed Euridice

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(Credit: Photo © SF/Bernd Uhlig) When Cecilia Bartoli enters the stage, all eyes are on her. The leading headliner in Salzburg has made herself a living legend. I know many music-lovers, of all ages, who have fallen in love with opera first and foremost because of Cecilia. Such talent has made legions of fans—myself included— to feel entitled to use {…}

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Salzburg Festival 2023 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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(Photo Credit:  SF/Matthias Horn) “Le Nozze di Figaro” in Salzburg is always a big challenge; it is Mozart’s city. The festival public is not conservative per se, but it does have high standards for Mozart, and will not willingly countenance simplistic approaches to the opera that would diminish Mozart and Da Ponte’s powerful message in name of some moralism. But {…}

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Salzburg Festival 2023 Review: Brahms Requiem

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(Photo: © SF/Marco Borrelli) If I had to define the Salzburg Festival in one word, it would be “tradition.” This has both good and bad implications. Revering tradition is an active attempt to make the past alive and present. The concertgoers sport their Dirndl and Lederhosen, traditional Tirol formal wear, with much pride, as they should. The claims of tradition, however, {…}

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Salzburg Festival to Broadcast ‘Macbeth’

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(c: sf bernd uhlig) The Salzburg Festival will broadcast Verdi’s “Macbeth.” The production, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski and conducted by Philippe Jordan, will be showcased on ORF 2, Arte, Arte Concert, and BR Klassik on July 29 in a time-delayed broadcast.  The cast will include Vladislav Sulimsky in the title role, Tareq Nazmi as Banco, Asmik Grigorian as Lady Macbeth, and Jontahn {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Conductor Change for ‘Macbeth’

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The Salzburg Festival has announced a conductor change for its production of Verdi’s “Macbeth.” In a press release the festival said, “With great regret, Franz Welser-Most must withdraw from conducting Macbeth due to acute orthopedic issues which require him to undergo medical treatment. However, he remains confident that he will be able to conduct his concerts at the Festival with {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award Finalists

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The Salzburg Festival has announced the three finalists for the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award 2023. Chaired by Manfred Honeck, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the jury chose eight candidates (two female, six male) in February as semi-finalists for the eleventh edition of the renowned competition, which takes place every two years. This year, there were 323 {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Lineup for 2023 Youth Program ‘jung & jede*r’

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The Salzburg Festival has announced the lineup for their 2023 youth program, “jung & jede*r”. Running from March 24 to August 28, 2023, the program will feature 53 performances for children and teenagers across 20 venues. Among the highlights are the following: Maurice Ravel’s “Das Kind und die Zauberdinge (L’Enfant et les sortilèges)” This new production will be held at {…}

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Salzburg Festival Board Pulls Festival President from Public-Facing Role

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Photo: Peter Rigaud A reported shift in the leadership responsibilities of the Salzburg Festival has removed Festival President Kristina Hammer from dealing with the press and media. After assuming Hammer’s responsibilities in these areas, Director Markus Hinterhäuser is now the Festival’s primary public representative. Hammer will focus on external representation and sponsor search. The move, however, is in keeping with {…}

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UNESCO Commission Enters Salzburg Festival’s Audio-Visual Collection in the ‘Memory of the World’ Registry

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Since 2014, the Austrian UNESCO Commission has maintained the National Austrian Documentary Heritage Registry, comprising a collection of highly important documents for Austrian history. In-house recordings of the Salzburg Festival span 80 years of music and theater history and have been cataloged and digitized in collaboration with the Austrian Media Library of the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology since {…}