Tag: Salzburg
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…
Mahler’s Third and Cerha’s “Spiegel” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
“Christ, I forgot the horn!” Cursed Gustav Mahler in a caricature that was published on the occasion of his Sixth Symphony. “Now I can write another symphony!” In fact, Mahler’s…
Salzburg Festival: Jossi Wieler stages “The mine of Falun” – culture
There is a huge crash in the Salzburg State Theater. A piece of plaster falls from the portal. It’s dusty. The curtain opens shyly, one looks at a rubble field…
Joana Mallwitz conducts “Così fan tutte” in Salzburg. – Culture
Mozart celebrates women! Most decidedly, deeply and most beautifully in his three Italian operas by the brilliant librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Mozart’s women – Donna Anna and Zerlina, Countess Almaviva…
Krzysztof Warlikowski’s production of the opera “Elektra” in Salzburg – Culture
Open detailed view Caught in hatred and malice: Ausrine Stundyte as Elektra in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski. (Photo: Bernd Uhlig / SF) Director Krzysztof Warlikowski lets Richard Strauss’s opera…