Eros and Thanatos
Modes of love and death with Teodor Currentzis at the podium: from Bizet's Carmen to Berg's Andenken eines Engels and Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem.
Two and More Souls: All of Faust!
Ulrich Rasche stages Goethe's Faust: on the Perner Insel, from 25 July.
“Like vanilla ice cream with pumpkinseed oil“
“Everyone knows King Arthur’s name. But how is it for him, bearing the burden of all that heroism on his shoulders at a young age?”
Ancient Abysses, New World Order
„What a Stroke of Luck“: A Journey Through the World with Peter Handke
Jossi Wieler stages Schnee von gestern, Schnee von morgen with Jens Harzer and Marina Galic. The three of them visited Peter Handke in France.
Condensed Atom Meets “Ländler” Sound
The Salzburg Festival pays homage to György Kurtág with no fewer than nine concerts and traces his deep elective affinity with Franz Schubert.
Into the Enchanted Forest
An unusual girl, a furious weather-maker and the young King Arthur: a tour through the diverse youth programme jung & jede*r (young & everyone) of the Salzburg Festival.
Of War and Capitalism
Elfriede Jelinek tells a financial comedy from the perspective of animals in Unter Tieren; Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Werner Henze de-Nazify Der Prinz von Homburg.
