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News, Season Announcement

Asmik Grigorian, Kate Lindsey, Jonathan Tetelman, Benjamin Bernheim, Elīna Garanča, Lisette Oropesa & Juan Diego Flórez Lead Salzburg Festival’s 2026 Season

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The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Franck Ollu conducts Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteriis’s “Passion” starring Sarah Aristidou, Georg Nigl, and Schola Heidelberg. Performance Date: July 23, 2026 Asmik Grigorian stars as Bizet’s “Carmen” alongside Jonathan Tetelman, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Davide Luciano. Teodor Currentzis conducts the production by Gabriela {…}

Business, News

Salzburg Festival Announces Final Numbers for 2025 Season

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The Salzburg Festival has announced that its 2025 season sold 98.4 percent of its performances. The festival, which held 174 performances in 45 days at 16 venues, noted that this year saw 256,600 guests from 88 countries, including 49 non-European ones. This year, 43 performances of six staged, three semi-staged and three concert productions of opera were presented while there {…}

News

Salzburg Festival Names Christian Blex Winner of the 2025 Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award

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(Photo credit: SF/Marco Borrelli) Christian Blex has won the 2025 Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival. The international jury, chaired by Manfred Honeck, selected Blex to take home the 15,000 € prize. Blex will also be conducting a Festival concert with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna. This concert will be recorded and released on CD {…}

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Pro-Palestine Protesters Storm Opening Night of Salzburg Festival

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On July 26, at the opening night of the Salzburg Festival, students disrupted the festival with a pro-Palestine protest. According to reports and videos, students interrupted Minister of Culture Andreas Babler’s opening speech, shouting “Stop the genocide” and “Free Gaza now.” Others yelled, “Blood on Your Hands.” The protesters also unfurled banners. The protestors were later removed, and six were {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Conductor & Program Change for Vienna Philharmonic Concerts

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The Salzburg Festival has announced a major cancelation for two concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic. Per an official press release, Esa-Pekka Salonen will replace Lorenzo Viotti for the July 27 and 28 performances. Viotti canceled his appearances due to acute illness. In his absence, Salonen has modified the program. “Oedipus Rex” will remain on the program in the first half, {…}

News, Streaming

Mezzo.TV to Broadcast ‘Maria Stuarda’ from Salzburg Festival with Lisette Oropesa

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Mezzo.TV is set to present Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” on August 1, 2025. The opera, which will be performed in a production by Ulrich Rasche, will be conducted by Antonello Manacorda. Lisette Oropesa will sing the title role alongside Kate Lindsey, who will portray Elisabetta, and Bekhzod Davronov as Roberto, Conte di Leicester. The cast will be rounded out by Aleksei Kulagin as {…}

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Former Artistic Director of Salzburg Festival Alexander Pereira Found Guilty of Embezzlement

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Alexander Pereira, the former artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, the Zurich Opera House, and Teatro alla Scala in Milan, has been convicted of embezzlement in Florence. A court found Pereira guilty of charging private expenses to the opera house while he was artistic director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. As a result, he will receive a suspended sentence of {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Anne Applebaum as 2025 Keynote Speaker

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Anne Applebaum will give the keynote speech at the opening of the Salzburg Festival 2025. The Pulitzer Prize winner will deliver the keynote address on July 26. Her speech titled, “Democracy and the Music Festival” focuses on the current ideological realignment, democratic decline, and on the role of art in a time of global upheaval. Applebaum is a journalist and {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight, Streaming

Q & A: Olga Kulchynska on ‘Le Nozze di Figaro,’ The Metropolitan Opera & Her Salzburg Festival Debut

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(Credit: Julia Wimmerlin) Olga Kulchynska is currently starring in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The soprano made her Met debut six years ago and has already performed over 20 times with the company in “La Bohème” and Turandot.” This season, she will get her first Met Live in HD with her interpretation of Susanna in Mozart’s {…}