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Salzburg Festival Announces Participants of 2021 Young Singers Project

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(Credit: Anne Zeuner) The Salzburg Festival has announced the participants of the 2021 Young Singers Project. The participants will participate in productions of “Vom Stern, der nitch leuchten konnte,” “Tosca,” the YCA Award Concert Weekend, and “Elektra.” Soprano Miriam Kutrowatz, contralto Freya Apffelstaedt, bass-baritone Gabriel Rollinson, tenor Sebastian Mach, countertenor Tobias Hechler, soprano Liubov Medvedeva, and baritone Nikolai Zemlyanskikh will {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Major Cast Change for ‘Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno’

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The Salzburg Festival has announced that soprano Regula Mühlemann will appear in Händel’s “Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.” Mühlemann will step in for Mélissa Petit, who per a press release, is stepping down from the role of Bellezza. Mühlemann, who made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2012 in “Das Labryinth,” will join a cast that includes Cecilia Bartoli, {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Mortier Award Recipients

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The 2021 Mortier Award for music theatre will be presented during this summer’s Salzburg Festival to polymath Alexander Kluge and the Next Generation Award will be presented to stage director Ulrike Schwab. Polymath Kluge is a filmmaker and writer who wrote “Chronik der Gefühle (Chronicle of Feelings),” “Kongs große Stunde (Kong’s Big Moment),“Russland-Kontainer (Russia-Container),” “Trotzdem (Nevertheless, with Ferdinand von Schirach),” and “Senkblei der {…}

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Salzburg Festival Extends President Helga Rabl-Stadler’s Contract Through 2021

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The Supervisory Board of the Salzburg Festival has announced that Helga Rabl-Stadler’s contract as President of the festival has been extended for one more year, expiring on the last day of 2021. Rabl-Stadler’s contract had been extended for another three years back in 2016, and she was meant to oversee the Salzburg Festival’s centenary this year. In order to present {…}

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Salzburg Festival Announces Massive Renovation Plan

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(Credit: © Luigi Caputo) The Salzburg Festival has announced a massive renovation plan with plans to invest 263 million euros over the course of the next 10 years. According to the plan, the festival venues will be completely renovated and extended. This massive project has the goal of fully maintaining the operating functions of the festival in the long term. {…}

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Q & A: Conductor Ivor Bolton on History with Salzburg Festival & Cultural Crisis Caused by COVID-19

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(Credit: Ben Wright Photography) This year marked the 100th anniversary of the renowned Salzburg Festival in Austria. A critical milestone for the festival, they chose to still responsibly present the event this summer, albeit with a severely reduced program and heightened safety and security in response to the global pandemic. British conductor Ivor Bolton lead the Mozarteumsorchester Salzburg performing a {…}

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Salzburg Festival 2020 Review: Così Fan Tutte

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(Credit: Monika Ritterhaus) Who would have thought that an opera could be staged in just a few weeks? Probably the fastest production in the world was the minimalist, but extremely lively production of Mozart’s opera “Così Fan Tutte” staged at this summer’s Salzburg Festival. The tension of times – pandemic, anniversary, unexpected project, opportunity to return to work, new roles, {…}

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New Subsidiary Association of the Friends of the Salzburg Festival to be Founded in France

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(Credit: SF/Marco Borrelli) A new subsidiary association of the Friends of the Salzburg Festival is about to be founded in France to celebrate the Centennial Edition of the festival. “Les Amis Français du Festival de Salzbourg” is the fifth subsidiary association of this kind. Previously, similar associations have been founded in Germany, the United States of America, Switzerland, and Russia. {…}

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Q & A: Elsa Dreisig on ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ COVID-19, the Salzburg Festival & Her Rising Star Status

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Earlier this season, rising star soprano Elsa Dreisig was set to make her role debut as Fiordiligi in “Cosi Fan Tutte” in Berlin. However, as was the case with most plans in 2020, COVID-19 canceled out that possibility. For the time being, it seemed that that auspicious debut would have to wait. But as fate would have it, Dreisig, a {…}