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Sondra Radvanovsky, Simon Keenlyside & Andrè Schuen Lead Salzburg Easter Festival’s 2025 Season

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The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced its 2025 season. Modest Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina” will be directed by Simon McBurney and will showcase the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. It will be presented in a version of the unfinished work based solely on the testimonies left behind by Mussorgsky. Performance Dates: TBA Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. {…}
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Benjamin Bernheim Asmik Grigorian, Juan Diego Florez, Elīna Garanča & Cecilia Bartoli Lead Salzburg Festival’s 2024 Season

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(Credit: © SF / Peter Rigaud) The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2024 Season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Opera Strauss’ “Caprricio” is set to be performed in concert form with Elsa Dreisig and Bo Skovhus as Countess and Count. The cast also includes Sebastian Kohlhepp (Flamand), Konstantin Krimmel (Olivier), Mika Kares (La Roche), Ève-Maud Hubeaux (Clairon), {…}
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Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2024 Announces ‘Tutto Mozart’ Program

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Cecilia Bartoli has announced the program for the 2024 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, which will be called “Tutto Mozart.” The showcase will take place between May 17-20, 2024. Here is a rundown of the programming, with an emphasis on vocal showcases. Robert Carsen will direct a production of “La Clemenza di Tito.” Gianluca Capuano conducts. Performance Dates: TBA Next up is “Une {…}
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Apple Music Classical Partners With The Salzburg Festival

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(Photo credit: Salzburg Festiva)l Apple Music Classical has partnered with the Salzburg Festival. Listeners are offered exclusive audio recordings and playlists from the Salzburg Festival, both past and present. Spatial Audio’s remastering a number of iconic recordings from past Festivals, with the 2009 recital from Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire featured. Festival officials commented in a press release that,”The Salzburg {…}
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Hankyeol Yoon Wins Salzburg Festival’s Prestigious Young Conductors Award

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(Credit: © SF/Marco Borrelli) The Salzburg Festival has announced that Hankyeol Yoon is the 2023 winner of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award. This is the 11th time that the award has been presented and it comes with a 15,000 euro prize. Yoon will also get the opportunity to conduct a Festival concert with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra {…}
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Salzburg Whitsun Festival Announces Cast Change for Schubertiade

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(Credit: Lucas und Arthur Jussen) The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has announced a cast change for its Schubertiade on May 29, 2023. The festival said that “for health reasons, Daniel Barenboim has been forced to cancel his participation in the Schubertiade. The original plan was for Daniel Barenboim to play four-hand piano works by Franz Schubert with Martha Argerich. Therefore, Martha {…}
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Salzburg Easter Festival Announces Cast Change for ‘Tannhäuser’

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The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced a cast change for its production of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser.” The company said that “Elīna Garanča has dropped out of the Salzburg Easter Festival as Venus in Richard Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser,’ due to illness. As a result, Emma Bell will perform the part. Bell recently made Wagner debuts in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, and Zurich. She has performed {…}
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Cecilia Bartoli, Rolando Villazón, Mélissa Petit, Andriana Chuchman, Thomas Hampson Headline Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2023

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The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has announced its 2023 festival and it will feature a very heavy emphasis on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. “As a musician and singer, I firmly believe in the power of music and the human voice. Therefore, the Orpheus myth is naturally one of the ancient stories that fascinates me most. It heartens me when {…}
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Berlin Philharmonic to Return to Salzburg Easter Festival; Leaving Baden-Baden

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The Berlin Philharmonic⁩ will return to Salzburg Easter Festival starting in 2026. The news comes as the orchestra announced that 2025 will be its last year at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. In a statement, Nikolaus Bachler said “the Salzburg Easter Festival will once again have a permanent resident orchestra from 2026: the Berlin Philharmonic. Herbert von Karajan founded the Easter {…}

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