Tag: Salzburg Festival
“Come closer”: a book about and with Peter Simonischek – culture
It begins with one last big applause: at the funeral procession. The dead Peter Simonischek is driven around the Vienna Burgtheater in a black car in a simple wooden coffin,…
The new Salzburg Everyman: Interview with Philipp Hochmair – Culture
The Austrian actor Philipp Hochmair will take on the title role in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Everyman” in Salzburg next summer. This has not yet been officially confirmed by the Salzburg…
Out for Michael Maertens as Salzburg’s Everyman – Culture
To his own surprise, Michael Maertens will not play Everyman again at the Salzburg Festival next year. In general, there will be a completely new production of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s…
Theater gastronomy: eat something?
Ice-cold salmon bites and three-euro chocolate bars: It’s practically impossible to eat halfway well in the theater. Does it have to be like that? A hungry cry at the start…
Salzburg Festival: Greatest possible illusion
To mark the 150th birthday of its co-founder Max Reinhardt, the Salzburg Festival is reconstructing his legendary, gigantic “Faust City”. source site
Salzburg Festival: One book, 13 women, six hours
The usual marathon reading at the end of the Salzburg Festival is this time Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”. source site
Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner slaps a singer – culture
Actually, it should have been the start of a grandiose tour through half of Europe. Hector Berlioz’ monumental opera “Les Troyens”, which is seldom performed because it lasts at least…
Mareike Fallwickls: “The anger that remains” in Salzburg – culture
Mareike Fallwickl has written one of the most drastic first pages of a novel of 2022. This page begins with a missing spice and ends with a mother’s suicide. “We…
Un poco adagio in Salzburg – Bavaria
Wolferl and Trachtenschick everywhere you look – the city and its festivals have a reputation that precedes them. But if you get hold of a ticket yourself, you will be…
Salzburg Festival: Bohuslav Martinů’s “The Greek Passion” is a hit with the public – culture
There are not many operas that directly address the major social and political problems of our time. Luigi Nono’s “Intolleranza 1960” is one of them, the work was already shown…