The new artistic Director, new acting Director, and a new “Everyone”: the world’s largest Festival with the genres of Opera, drama and concert is a lot different this time. It could be the beginning of a new Era.
Top Stars of classical music, a magnificent setting in the birthplace of Mozart and the new Opera and theatre productions, the recipe for success at the Salzburg festival, starting this Friday with the traditional performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play “Jedermann”.
This year five of the program includes new productions ned operas go over the boards. The most anticipated Premiere is expected at the 6. August Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” to be staged by the Iranian-American artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. The title role sings the Russian Diva Anna Netrebko, and in the orchestra pit of the Italian conductor Riccardo Muti.
Big names dominate the programme
In addition, there are new productions of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck”, Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district” and to the beginning of the Opera programme at the 27. July – Mozart’s Opera “La clemenza di Tito” in the Interpretation from the Star-Director team of Teodor Currentzis, conductor, and Peter Sellars as Director.
The title character, the Roman Emperor Titus, is the games starting point for the theme of this year’s Salzburg festival: “Power”. At different program points, “strategies of Power, their impositions and cruelties, but also the Forgive – and to Forgive,” said artistic Director Markus hinterhäuser in an Interview with the German press Agency (dpa).
Stefanie Reinsperger as the paramour and Tobias Moretti as Anyone in the new production of the iconic play
Everyone
Although the Opera program receives probably the most attention, is expected to be of similar voltage, a new production of the play “Everyman”. A Revision of the previous production of the year in 2013 by the American-British team of Directors Brian Mertes and Julian Crouch had proved to be unrealistic. Director of the Vienna-born, Michael Sturminger now. Nine roles were filled, including the title role with the Austrian Tobias Moretti.
No “pseudo-actuality” when “Everyone”
The new production of “Jedermann” was in the short term, and surprisingly, it has been announced. Sturminger, however, is a film Director, the “can structure quickly is also great substances,” said the new acting Director Bettina herring. “In addition, he is amazingly free of fear and has a great Team at his side.” Clearly supposed to be the new production modernized, “definitely present” but without the “spirit of the times, or pseudo-topicality,” added Markus hinterhäuser.
Behind the houses, the appearance as a Pianist, is also new to the office, but not a new face in Salzburg; under the former artistic Director Gerard Mortier, he had designed the avant-garde series “flow of time” and was artistic Director from 2010 to 2011 Interim. With his five-year contract is expected to frequent change at the top in the last few years, now is an Era of stability in Salzburg.
Markus hinterhäuser is an innovative programme makers
The Who’s Who of the classical music
The largest Item in the festival program, the division of the “concert busy” with 85 events. To sounds right at the beginning of Olivier Messiaen’s “La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ” (The Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ) on 22. July, in Salzburg’s Felsenreitschule. The Americans Kent Nagano, former student of the French composer Messiaen, conducted the choir and orchestra of the Bavarian radio.
After that, the festival follows up to the end of the 30. August pretty much everything in the classic world rank and name: orchestras such as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the music Aeterna Orchestra, and conductors such as Simon Rattle, Andris Nelsons and John Eliot Gardiner. Add to this the concerts of chamber music with the violinist Anne-Sophie mutter, Christian Tetzlaff and Frank Peter Zimmermann and the cellist Sol Gabetta.
Keys-genius to be a guest in Salzburg
A number of pianists of world renown, including the 30-year-old Russian-German Pianist Igor Levit, the with the 24 preludes and fugues of Dmitri Shostakovich, his Salzburg debut. Guest-the game belongs to the ten-part series, “time with Shostakovich”, the lights all the Genres of Russian composers.
Include Salzburg, the cobbled streets and pastel-coloured facades
The celebrated Hungarian Pianist András Schiff, occurs at Recitals with works by Bach, Bartók, Janáček, and Schumann; the Russians Grigory Sokolov and Evgeny Kissin, the Japanese woman, Mitsuko Uchida, and the Italians Maurizio Pollini as well as solo evenings. As a Duo, two pianists, who were decades ago the headlines: Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim.
Also, the “See and be Seen”, heard in the Salzburg program
The 1998 late French composer Gérard Grisey will be honored in six concerts posthumously and also the Mozart-matinees may not be missing in the Mozart city of Salzburg. Among the events is a “Young Conductors Award” and a “Young Singers Project”.
Hear you can play so much at the Salzburg festival. The festival experience is also the Seeing and being Seen. On the street in front of the vertical rock wall of the Salzburg fortress, the social Crème de la Crème of the year for the year for the rendezvous. You are one of the 250,000 visitors who are expected this year.
In 1920, the Salzburg festival was called games of the writers Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the composer Richard Strauss and the Director Max Reinhardt. The artistic Director, coined the festival’s longest, was Herbert von Karajan: The Karajan Era lasted from 1957 to 1989.