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Salzburg Festival Expresses Optimism At Possibility of Modified Festival Taking Place This Summer

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The Salzburg Festival has announced that it might proceed with a modified festival. In a press statement,  President Helga Rabl-Stadler, Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser, and Executive Director Lukas Crepaz stated that while the festival cannot move forward as originally planned and programmed, that the organization is considering other means of providing its annual event in 2020. The Festival will be {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Conductors Replacing Late Mariss Jansons in ‘Boris Godunov,’ Vienna Philharmonic Concerts

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The Salzburg Festival has announced that conductor Tugan Sokhiev will make his company debut conducting Mussorgsky’s opera “Boris Godunov” in place of the late conductor Mariss Jansons. The opera premieres on August 20 and is directed by Christof Loy. Meanwhile, Franz Welser-Möst will now conduct the Vienna Philharmonic concerts on July 26 and 29, also replacing the late Latvian conductor. {…}

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Salzburg Festival President Speaks Out In Support of Kathryn Lewek

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The Salzburg Festival’s President Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler has spoken out regarding Kathryn Lewek’s stance against a journalist that used his review to criticize her physique. The review for Die Welt body-shamed Lewek for her appearance in Barry Kosky’s new production of “Orphée aux Enfers.” The soprano then used her own social media channels to call attention to the review and {…}

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Medici To Stream Salzburg Festival ‘Simon Boccanegra’

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(Credit: SF/ Ruth Walz) On August 20, 2019 medici.tv is set to stream Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra” from the Salzburg Festival. The new production by Andreas Kriegenburg, is set to be conducted by Valery Gergiev and will star Luca Salsi as Simon Boccanegra, Marina Rebeka as Amelia Grimaldi, René Pape as Jacopo Fiesco, Charles Castronovo as Gabriele Adorno. The production marks the return {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces New Narrator for Nono’s ‘Il Canto Sospeso’

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The Salzburg Festival has announced that Jens Harzer will take on the role of the narrator in “Il Canto Sospeso” by Luigi Nono. The role was originally assigned to Bruno Ganz, but the legendary actor passed away in February of 2019. The performance of “Il Canto Sospeso” will be dedicated to Ganz. Harzer has been around the Salzburg Festival since {…}

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Salzburg Festival Reveals Participants For Young Singers Project 2019

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(Credit: SF/Anne Zeuner) The Salzburg Festival has revealed the participants of the Young Singers Project 2019. In sum, there will be 13 participants from 11 different countries, including Canada, Spain, the UK, France, Russia, Poland, the U.S., Ukraine, Ireland, Mexico, and New Zealand; this is the first time that the program features young singers from Mexico and New Zealand. The {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces New ‘Medée’ As Sonya Yoncheva Out Of Lead Role

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The Salzburg Festival has announced that Elena Stikhina will be taking over the lead role in “Medée” this summer. Sonya Yoncheva was originally supposed to take on the opera after tremendous success in a previous production. However, the soprano is currently awaiting her second child and  regulations with Austrian maternity protection laws will not allow her to participate in rehearsals {…}

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Salzburg Festival 2018 Review: The Queen of Spades

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It is hard to imagine Russian music without Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Russian literature without poet Alexander Pushkin. Tchaikovsky’s opera “The Queen of Spades,” based on the eponymous novella by Pushkin, is one of the most important of the existing operas. Its beautiful and dark music leaves hardly any hope at the end, revealing a very fatalistic, and very Slavic, way {…}

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Salzburg Festival 2018 Review: L’incoronazione di Poppea

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The father of opera, as Claudio Monteverdi is often referred to, created the most magical music in the world about the darkest characters that had ever lived. How can we see beauty in horror and why life always juxtaposes the opposites? These questions run through your mind as you listen to “L’incoranazione di Poppea,” an ancient story of lust, seduction {…}