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 {…}

Aug 28, 2020

Cecilia Bartoli to Remain Artistic Director of the Whitsun Festival

(Credit: © Marco Borrelli) The Salzburg Festival has announced that famed Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli will remain the Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival through 2026. “It fills me with great joy to continue our fruitful artistic collaboration with Cecilia Bartoli for the entire duration of my own contract,” said the Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival Markus Hinterhäuser. {…}

Aug 21, 2020

Jonas Kaufmann, Cecilia Bartoli & Anja Harteros Highlight Salzburg Whitsun Festival’s 2021 Edition

Cecilia Bartoli has unveiled details for the 2021 Salzburg Whitsun Festival. The 2021 edition will be themed after Rome, the city of Bartoli’s birth, and will feature a new production of Georg Friedrich Handel’s oratorio “Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” by Robert Carsen. Bartoli will star in the Handel masterpiece with Gianluca Capuano conducting Les Musiciens de Prince-Monaco. {…}

Apr 6, 2020

Salzburg Whitsun Festival Canceled Due to Coroanvirus

The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has been suspended due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The festival announced stated, “Until today, we still had hope that due to the consistent and courageous measures of the Austrian government the situation would ease off in time and that the Whitsun Festival 2020 could take place as planned However, as announced in the press conference of {…}

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