Tag: Salzburg Festival
Fits anyway: How Lars Eidinger bought leather pants – culture
Lars Eidinger fulfilled a dream in Salzburg, where he played Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Jedermann” for the past six weeks: he bought a pair of lederhosen. No, not a tight, black…
Salzburg Festival: concert “La Damnation de Faust” – culture
Towards the end, the Salzburg Festival puts one or two operas in concert form on the program. There is a simple calculation behind this, because singer stars can also be…
Salzburg Festival: Urgent announcements before the performances – culture
Of course, announcements can be heard again shortly before the start of the performances in Salzburg. But this year they have a different urgency. This is perhaps also due to…
The Brandenburg Concerts in Salzburg have one problem – culture
The Brandenburg Concerts will be three hundred years old this year, more precisely: the manuscript that was presented to Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1721 in the now rebuilt Berlin…
The sensation of the Salzburg Festival was an evening with chamber music culture
That was not only a thrilling musical experience in the fully occupied Great Hall of the Mozarteum, it was also an intense enlightenment of knowledge: Chamber music is nothing less…
Luigi Nono’s “Intolleranza 1960” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
Whoever does not get hold of it has no heart. And no brain either. At the Salzburg Festival, Luigi Nono’s “Intolleranza 1960” becomes a scream from a hundred throats, an…
Morton Feldman’s Beckett opera “Neither” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
Think of it as a very entertaining get-together. The opera in Rome gave the impetus, they wanted an opera by Morton Feldman, the libretto was to be provided by Samuel…
Martin Kusej’s “Maria Stuart” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
One thing has to be left to Martin Kušej’s “Maria Stuart” production: it doesn’t even pretend that it wants to tell Schiller’s “Tragedy in Five Acts” from the inside out…
Patricia Kopatchinskaja at the Salzburg Festival: Wild Violinist – Culture
As the chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja asked at a panel discussion in Stuttgart 2020 whether she would rather play in the sunlight of…
Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s “Dies Irae” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
The last visitors are still looking for their places in the collegiate church, and already there is a clatter. A hollow throbbing like a labored heartbeat can be heard, a…