Tag: Salzburg Festival
We are the mob: Sasha Waltz choreographs Bach’s St. John Passion in Salzburg – Culture
Can, can, should you do that? A good forty years ago, when Hamburg’s ballet director John Neumeier dared to tackle Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the theater crowd shuddered.…
Interview with soprano Asmik Grigorian: “I’m crazy enough myself” – Culture
Asmik Grigorian, born in Vilnius in 1981, grew up with music. Her father was the Armenian tenor Gegham Grigorjan, her mother is the Lithuanian soprano and professor Irena Milkevičiūtė. Ever…
No investigations against the Salzburg Festival. – Culture
A good month ago, the tenor Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke filed a lawsuit against the Salzburg Festival, which has now been rejected. The background is the shutdown of the cultural sector in…
Autobiography by Jürgen Flimm: Fantastic feudal lord – culture
A strange book. A year ago, on February 4, 2023, the artistic director and drama director, the director, institute founder and professor Jürgen Flimm died; He wrote his memoirs until…
The actress Elisabeth Trissenaar died at the age of 79: an obituary – culture
The fact that when you think of the actress Elisabeth Trissenaar you immediately think of the director Hans Neuenfels, who died in 2022, is by no means anti-feminist, in the…
Classic: The Robin Hood among artists
Why the tenor Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke is suing the Salzburg Festival for defamation. source site
The Salzburg Festival is defending itself against criminal charges – culture
The “Art but fair” association has just filed a criminal complaint against the Salzburg Festival “for serious fraud”. Contrary to expectations, the festival was able to play at the last…
Salzburg Festival: Accusations against Salzburg Festival
The “Art but fair” association speaks of “serious fraud” and is calling for the director to resign. The reasons go back to the Corona summer of 2020. source site
Program of the Salzburg Festival Summer 2024 – Culture
If you listen to Markus Hinterhäuser presenting the program for the summer of 2024 at the press conference of the Salzburg Festival and witness the intellectual furor with which he…
“The Misanthrope” at the Vienna Burgtheater: Kušej gives the finger – culture
In the run-up to this premiere there was a bit of a theater scandal smell. Word had gotten around that Martin Kušej was doing well with his production of Molière’s…