Tag: Salzburg Festival
Igor Levit at the Salzburg Festival: Poetry of Communication – Culture
Igor Levit made his political vigilance public early on – not a matter of course for artists of classical music. The musician, who was born in Russia in 1987 and…
Salzburg Festival: Ewelina Marciniak’s “Iphigenia” – Culture
Hard to say what makes good theater. You can describe the effect – “touched”, “familiar and yet radically new”, but what ultimately determines whether an evening at the theater really…
Salzburg Festival: Marathon Reading “Divine Comedy” – Culture
The beginning is of compelling ease. Seven people, seven carafes of water, seven chairs, one table. There they sit, who will now master Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” in a marathon…
“Time for Bartók” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
How she throws pizzicati into the audience, how she lives out rhythmically, how she doesn’t just play the violin brilliantly, but fiddles for her life far from any routine, how…
Salzburg Festival: Verdi’s “Aida” directed by Shirin Neshat – culture
The process is quite unusual for the Salzburg Festival: in 2017, the Iranian photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat staged Verdi’s “Aida” here. It was her first job as an opera…
Mozart’s Mass in C minor at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
It’s not really overwhelming music, and yet you always feel emotionally overwhelmed. Because Mozart’s C minor Mass, no matter how much its composition may be based on Baroque models and…
Leoš Janáček’s “Katja Kabanova” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
The Felsenreitschule remains the most spectacular venue at the Salzburg Festival: Wide and austere at the same time, its stone arcades have hosted many sensational, often experimental opera productions. In…
Grigory Sokolov in Salzburg: The myth has humor – culture
Can Grigory Sokolov actually smile? You don’t know, after all he doesn’t do it, no matter how wild the audience in Salzburg’s Great Festival Hall is. It is one of…
Pianist Yuja Wang makes her solo debut at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
At first it didn’t look as if this stand-in evening at the Salzburg Festival – Evgeny Kissin had canceled – could go beyond the scope of a proper piano recital.…
Salzburg Festival: Where Teodor Currentzis finally wants to speak – culture
Of Moritz Baumsteiger Right at the beginning, one sentence made you sit up and take notice. As Teodor Currentzis, Greek-Russian conductor under the pressure of political justification, after a long…