Cecilia Bartoli, Céline Scheen, Vito Priante & Marina Viotti Lead 2026 Salzburg Whitsun Festival

The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has announced its 2026 season themed “Bon Voyage.” Opera Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims” will be conducted by Gianluca Capuano and directed by Barrie Kosky. The ensemble cast will include Cecilia Bartoli, Marina Viotti, Mélissa Petit, Tara Erraught, Edgardo Rocha, Dmitry Korchak, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Florian Sempey, Misha Kiria, Peter Kellner, Giovanni Romeo, Helena Rasker, Rodolphe Briand, {…}

Aug 4, 2025

Cecilia Bartoli Extends Contract with Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Cecilia Bartoli’s concert with the Salzburg Whitsun Festival has been extended. Bartoli will remain with the festival as Artistic Director until 2031. Bartoli has been the Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival since 2012 and has extended his contract twice, in 2014 and 2020. During her tenure, She has overseen such productions as “Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” “Norma,” “La {…}

Jun 14, 2025

Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2025 Review: Hotel Metamorphoses

(Photo Credit: Monika Rittershaus) At the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, “Hotel Metamorphoses” emerged as an ambitious new opera project — a contemporary reworking of the Baroque pasticcio format that splices myth, music, and modernity into an unlikely unity. Conceived over three years of development by director Barrie Kosky in collaboration with Cecilia Bartoli, the production draws from five mythological episodes {…}

Nov 8, 2024

Cecilia Bartoli, Matthias Goerne, Piotr Beczala & Philippe Jaroussky Lead Salzburg Whitsun Festival’s 2025 Season

The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has announced its 2025 season. Opera “Hotel Metamorphosis,” a pastiche of Vivadi’s music, will be conducted by Gianluca Capuano and directed by Barrie Kosky. The production will star Cecilia Bartoli, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Lea Desandre, Philippe Jaroussky, and Angela Winkler. Performance Dates: June 6-8, 2025 Nadine Sierra, Piotr Beczala, and Luca Salsi star in Verdi’s “La Traviata” {…}

May 23, 2024

Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2024 Review: La Clemenza di Tito

(Credit: Matthias Horn) The Whitsun Festival in Salzburg this year is titled “Tutto Mozart” and is dedicated to the city’s most famous son. The program features only one full opera, “La clemenza di Tito,” written by Mozart in 1791 while he was finishing “The Magic Flute,” making it his final opera. Created to commemorate the coronation of Emperor Leopold II {…}

May 25, 2023

Salzburg Whitsun Festival Announces Cast Change for Schubertiade

(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 {…}

Jan 24, 2023

Cecilia Bartoli, Rolando Villazón, Mélissa Petit, Andriana Chuchman, Thomas Hampson Headline Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2023

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 {…}

Dec 6, 2021

Cecilia Bartoli, Piotr Beczala, Ildar Abdrazakov, Maria Agresta & Rolando Villazón Headline Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2022 Season

(Credit: Luigi Caputo) The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has announced its 2022 slate, focusing on the Spanish city of Seville. “There are said to be 153 operas set in and around Seville. It is a city which unites a unique mixture of proud ancient cultures which has generated and inspired incredibly varied music and enchants visitors with its stunningly bright light, {…}

May 19, 2021

Anna Netrebko & Luca Salsi Join Jonas Kaufmann in Salzburg Whitsun Festival’s ‘Tosca’

The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has announced a cast change for its “Tosca” performance. The festival announced that Anja Harteros and Bryn Terfel have been forced to cancel their participation in the festival and as a result, Anna Netrebko and Luca Salsi have agreed to perform the title role and Scarpia on short notice. Netrebko and Salsi will appear alongside Jonas {…}

May 6, 2021

Cecilia Bartoli to Headline Newly Programmed Concert at Salzburg Whitsun Festival

The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has announced an additional concert “What Passion Cannot Music Raise” set for May 23, 2021 at 11 a.m. local time. The showcase will be headlined by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and will include music by Handel, Porpora, Hasse, Telemann, and Vivaldi. Bartoli will perform arias from such works as “Amadigi di Gaula,” “Orlando Furioso,” “Rinaldo,” “Ode for {…}

Apr 27, 2021

Salzburg Whitsun Festival Confirms 2021 Edition

(Photo Credit: © Decca/Uli Weber) The President of the Salzburg Festival Helga Rabl-Stadler confirmed that the 2021 edition of the Whitsun festival will take place in May. “Yes, all the events will take place, and the Board of Directors is in full agreement with the Festival’s Director Cecilia Bartoli,” said Rabl-Stadler in a press statement. Rabl-Stadler added that she regrets {…}

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