Der Menschenfeind – Alceste and Célimène

Can Alceste love Célimène without asking her to become someone else? And can love endure when two ways of looking at life could hardly be more different?

Festival Talk

Festival president Kristina Hammer in conversation with Unter Tiere director Nicolas Stemann.

“I want people to be sincere, and, as a man of honour, never to utter a word that does not come from the heart.”

The Misanthrope – a battleground, and we watch

Molière's hero rebels against a society shaped by hypocrisy. Director Jette Steckel finds this translates well to the world of the Salzburg Festival.

The Burden of Silence

Ancient mythology interwoven with the present: in Europa after Wajdi Mouawad's Europa's Pledge, director Krzysztof Warlikowski asks about the inheritance of traumatic events.

Two and More Souls: All of Faust!

Ulrich Rasche stages Goethe's Faust: on the Perner Insel, from 25 July.

„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.