(Credit: © Salzburg Osterfestpiele official website) The Osterfestpiele Salzburg has announced that it will postpone the 2021 Edition. In a statement, the Austrian festival said, “After long, detailed deliberations, Christian Thielemann, the Artistic Director of the Festival and Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and Intendant Nikolaus Bachler have decided to move the Festival from the Easter weekend to the {…}
The Salzburg Easter Festival has modified its 2021 program. The company announced that due to COVID-19 restrictions, a new program featuring artists originally announced would be presented. The festival is set to open with a Choral Concert conducted by Christian Thielemann with Golda Schultz, Szilvia Vörös, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, and the Bachchor Salzburg. The concert will feature music by {…}
The Salzburg Osterfestpiele Festival has announced that the upcoming production of “Turandot” has been replaced by a concert performance. The change is due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and in a statement, the festival said, “it will be given in a concert version on account of the size and complexity of the work (it requires more than 250 participants).” The {…}
The Salzburg Easter Festival is launching a streaming platform in collaboration with Unitel. From April 4 through 16, the dates of the festival, there will be free videos of the opera productions from the era of Christian Thielemann/Staatskapelle Dresden from 2013 to 2017. The program kicks off with a 2017 recording of “Die Walküre,” in a production by Vera Nemirova {…}
The Salzburg Osterfesptiele has canceled its 2020 season. The festival stated, “Impossibility of holding the 2020 Salzburg Easter Festival because of the coronavirus pandemic. On account of the current legal situation, the developments of recent days and the earnest expectations for the near future, the General Meeting, the Advisory Board and the Management of the Salzburg Easter Festival GmbH were {…}
The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced its 2021 festival with a number of great artists and one major new operatic production. For this article we will only focus on the vocal selections. For the entire program click here. Christian Thielemann conducts a new production of Puccini’s “Turandot” with Yona Kim directing. Anna Netrebko sings the title role with Yusif Eyvazov {…}
The Salzburg Osterfestspiele has its 2020 festival concentrating on the works of Verdi and Beethoven. This season the festival will present a new production of “Don Carlo” directed by Vera Nemirova. Christian Thielemann will conduct the production, which is set to include a new prologue by Manfred Trojan; this in turn will replace the Act one Fontainebleau scene. The cast will include Yusif {…}
The Salzburg Osterfestpiele has announced its lineup for 2018. The opera that will headline the festival will be Puccini’s “Tosca” starring German soprano Anja Harteros. The soprano is currently portraying Sieglinde at the festival in a new production of Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” She will be joined by Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko and the production will also star French baritone Ludovic Tezier. {…}