Blog entries
7
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
12:00 h;
published in: Opera
One cannot start learning about opera early enough. The stage director, author and musician Klaudia Kadlec has worked in opera education for children for many years – the project which made her well-known is the interactive opera viva. Working closely with great opera houses and festivals, she combats the cliché that opera is only for grownups. opera viva: opera lives! Also, and especially, for kids. A premiere at the Salzburg Festival this year!
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2
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
20:30 h;
published in: General
About 5,000 visitors enjoyed the live broadcast of the La bohème premiere yesterday evening on Salzburg’s Kapitelplatz.
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2
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
13:50 h;
published in: General
On the occasion of the Salzburg Festival, Günther Uecker designed a work of art entitled Optische Partitur Mozart (Visual Score Mozart). The work will be shown from August 2 to September 2, 2012 at the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg. The gallery Geuer & Breckner is selling this special print by Günther Uecker.
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3
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
10:59 h;
published in: General
For eight weeks in summer, Salzburg is the artistic crossroads of the world. But what happens when the Festival ends in early September and the restaurants around the baroque piazzas close at 7 in the evening? When Mozart’s city seems comatose and the autumn fog fills the air with melancholy?
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6
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
15:30 h;
published in: General
Buying tickets on the road? Reading program information, watching videos anytime, quickly and with easy access? Starting today, all this is possible – the Salzburg Festival’s homepage is now easier to use on mobile devices.
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5
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
13:35 h;
published in: General
At the Karl-Böhm-Saal, the Spanish artist Javier Pérez has realized an installation associated with Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s opera Die Soldaten. 17 couples find each other in a monotonous dance, eternally repeating itself. They are arranged in rigorous symmetry, like a mandala, in larger and smaller overlapping circles – and within all this order, they also reveal a chaotic assembly of strings and shoes and couples and figures. At the center stands a gramophone – after all, what would a dance be without music?
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4
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
11:38 h;
published in: Concert
Alfred Brendel no longer gives concerts. However, this does not mean he no longer plays the piano in public. On Thursday, August 9, 2012 at 3:00 pm, he will lecture on "Schubert's Last Piano Sonatas" at the Main Auditorium of the University, demonstrating at the piano.
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3
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
10:19 h;
published in: Festival Ball
The first Salzburg Festival Ball beckons with exquisite culinary delights: the gala dinner at the Residenz will be created by Andreas Döllerer, with serving support from the Tourism Schools Salzburg Klessheim.
Apart from Moët & Chandon champagne, cocktail bars by Moët Hennessy and a Stiegl brewery inn, the ball also offers Nespresso coffee and ice cream specialties by the Antica Gelateria del Corso.
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10
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
10:00 h;
published in: Drama
As part of the Montblanc & Salzburg Festival Young Directors Project, the stage director Cornelia Rainer and the theater company “Theater Montagnes Russes” present Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz on stage at the republic. The young director Cornelia Rainer spoke to APA about her ideas about the play.
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12
AUG
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
14:15 h;
published in: General
The number of Festival Documents is growing steadily. Once again, numerous productions performed at the Salzburg Festival were released this year on DVD or CD. Apart
from operas such as Lulu (2010) and Die Frau ohne Schatten, there are also various drama productions newly available on DVD: Thomas Bernhard’s Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige and Die Macht der Gewohnheit as well as a Jedermann Remixed of the Salzburg Festivals from 1920 to 2010. Neither are concerts ignored, on the contrary: two new DVD recordings and many CDs of concerts from various years are now available for purchase. This will give you an overview of all the new releases in 2012!
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