We‘re looking forward to the world premiere of Die Empörten (Theresia Walser) at the Salzburg Festival this year! Director Burkhard C. Kosminski offers first insights into the production.

Andreas Kriegenburg stages Giuseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra at the Salzburg Festival this year. The opera is perhaps Verdi's most personal, and certainly his darkest work, in which family and political conflicts clash inexorably.

With Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld, 1858) Jacques Offenbach turned the myth of "Orpheus and Eurydice" on its head. Barrie Kosky makes his debut at the Salzburg Festival with this "opéra-buffon". Learn more in the video!

Director Kornél Mundruczó intends to approach the ‘suburban legend in seven scenes’, as the work is subtitled, from the end: Liliom is already dead and has been called to answer for his deeds at the last judgement. This involves looking back on a distant time when things were different.

George Enescu entwarf für Œdipe einen grandiosen musikalischen Kosmos, der zu seiner Zeit — Mitte der Zwanzigerjahre des letzten Jahrhunderts — zwar nicht als avantgardistisch zu bezeichnen, aber sehr wohl innovativ war. Das Orchester ist mit vielen Sonderinstrumenten groß besetzt, und dennoch werden die Singstimmen nicht überfordert.

Take a look at this enchanting glimpse of the production Alcina!

With his staging of Luigi Cherubini's opera Médée, director Simon Stone once again aims to open our eyes and senses to people in existential states of emergency. This summer, experience Médée under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock at the Salzburg Festival!