Menu

924 search results for…

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Salzburg Festival 2024 Review: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-2024-review-les-contes-dhoffmann/

It is blatantly evident that there is a connection between the advent of cinema and the decline of Opera. Once the main form of entertainment, the operatic stage lost its prominence to the silver screen. There is something that opera used to give that cinema somehow gave, too—the question is what? Last year, the Salzburg Festival attempted to bridge the {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Salzburg Festival 2024 Review: Don Giovanni

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-2024-review-don-giovanni/

( Photo: © SF/Monika Rittershaus) All sinful things come wrapped in fascinating aesthetics. You know the feeling: something that is extremely beautiful and appealing, but disquieting—too pleasurable to be ethically good. That is Salzburg Festival’s “Don Giovanni”: a spectacular dramatic installation, a grandiose musical project, a lustful conception; yet sinfully wrong. First things first. This is a revival of Romeo {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Salzburg Festival 2024 Review: La Clemenza di Tito

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-2024-review-la-clemenza-di-tito/

(Photo credit: © SF Marco Borrelli) Is it possible to be merciful with fascists? In Robert Carsen’s reading of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” the answer must be a reverberant “No”—otherwise, the moment one turns their back, they will not miss the opportunity to stab it. Robert Carsen often enjoys updating opera plots, making them reflections of current politics—often achieving {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

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

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-2024-review-lea-desandre-thomas-dunford-ensemble-jupiter/

(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 {…}
News

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

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-workshops-reveals-new-concert-shell-for-the-haus-fur-mozart/

(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 {…}
News

Salzburg Festival to Celebrate Plácido Domingo’s 50th Anniversary

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-to-celebrate-placido-domingos-50th-anniversary/

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 {…}
News

Salzburg Festival Announces 2024 Young Artists

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-announces-2024-young-artists/

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 {…}
News

Salzburg Festival Extends Artistic Director’s Contract

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-extends-artistic-directors-contract/

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. {…}

Links

Social

Contact

Opera is thriving. And OperaWire came about as a desire to take in as much of it and allow the passionate fan base access to everything this wondrous art form has to offer on a daily basis.

© Copyright 2024 OperaWire
Site by Lenny's Studio