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18. November 2020
The Salzburg Festival congratulates
IGOR LEVIT
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30. October 2020
Presentation of Two Expert Reports on the Salzburg Festival Logo and its Designer Poldi Wojtek
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Masks pillar Salzburger Festspiele
23. October 2020
‘Salzburg for Everyman’: Festival’s Online Programme on ARTE Concert Reaches One Million Users
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13. October 2020
Contract extension of the Salzburg Festival President
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31. August 2020
Final Report 2020
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31. August 2020
Memorandum
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31. August 2020
Recordings and Broadcasts
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31. August 2020
Festival Documents and Photo Service
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28. August 2020
Contract Extended: Cecilia Bartoli remains Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival through 2026
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21. August 2020
Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2021
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20. August 2020
28 commemorative stones for victims of the Nazi dictatorship were laid today on Max-Reinhardt-Platz, outside the Haus für Mozart.
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17. August 2020
Franz Welser-Möst Awarded Festival Brooch
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Krzysztof Warlikowski (li), Franz Welser-Möst (re)
29. July 2020
Terrace Talk Elektra
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28. July 2020
“Dreaming of a Fairies’ Temple”
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28. July 2020
Siemens Festival>Nights: Experience the Highlights of the 2020 Salzburg Festival Free and in the Open Air
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Bürgermeister-Stv. Stadt Salzburg Bernhard Auinger, Festspielpräsidentin Helga Rabl-Stadler, Landeshauptmann Wilfried Haslauer, Ausstellungskuratorin Margarethe Lasinger und Martin Hochleitner, Direktor Salzburg Museum
23. July 2020
Anniversary Exhibition Great World Theatre – 100 Years of the Salzburg Festival
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22. July 2020
Terrace Talk Così fan tutte
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Knof, Moretti, Peters, Wöhler
18. July 2020
Terrace Talk Jedermann
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8. July 2020
Corona Case
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William Kentridge Poster Salzburg Festival
8. July 2020
A Dialogue with the Visual Arts. The Centenary Poster Series of the Salzburg Festival
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9. June 2020
Modified Salzburg Festival
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25. May 2020
Press Release by the Salzburg Festival’s Supervisory Board
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Salzburg Festival Board of Directors Lukas Crepaz Helga Rabl-Stadler Markus Hinterhäuser
15. May 2020
A Modified Festival Seems Possible
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Cecilia Bartoli
10. April 2020
Cancellation of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival (29 May – 1 June 2020)
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Salzburg Festival Board of Directors Lukas Crepaz Helga Rabl-Stadler Markus Hinterhäuser
31. March 2020
Salzburg Festival Press Release on a clearly defined plan with several levels
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30. January 2020
Creating the future of culture – Culture Tech LAB Salzburg 1.- 2. April 2020
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22. January 2020
Special-Issue Silver Coin and Stamp Commemorating the Salzburg Festival’s Centenary
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10. January 2020
“Dreaming of a Fairies’ Temple”. Artistic Interventions Regarding Festival Theatres Never Built
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9. January 2020
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte. An Interview with Conductor Joana Mallwitz
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Cecilia Bartoli singer mezzo-soprano
9. January 2020
La couleur du temps – The Colour of Time Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821 – 1910). Salzburg Whitsun Festival 29 May – 1 June 2020
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Asmik Grigorian Singer Soprano
9. January 2020
The 2020 Salzburg Festival opens with Elektra by Richard Strauss. Asmik Grigorian is Chrysothemis
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9. January 2020
The Salzburg Festival Centenary – The Festival as a Work of Peace
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13. November 2019
Annual Press
Conference Salzburg Festival 2020
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Salzburger Festspiele Domplatz
16. October 2019
MUSICAL AMERICA announces 2020 AWARDS : SALZBURG FESTIVAL named “Festival of the Year”
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Simon Stone Thomas Hengelbrock
25. July 2019
Press Text: Terrace Talk Médée
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7. June 2019
Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2020
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Photo Service

30. October 2020
Presentation of Two Expert Reports on the Salzburg Festival Logo and its Designer Poldi Wojtek
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13. October 2020
Contract extension of the Salzburg Festival President
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Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester orchestra
14. July 2020
Guest Orchestras 2020
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28. August 2020
Contract Extended: Cecilia Bartoli remains Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival through 2026
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27. August 2020
Salzburg Festival 2020 Tobias Moretti Awarded Festival Brooch
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22. August 2020
Jedermann-Tag (Jedermann-Day)
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17. June 2020
Canto Lirico 2020
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17. August 2020
Commemorative Stones
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27. August 2020
Salzburg Festival 2020
Franz Welser-Möst Awarded Festival Brooch
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14. August 2020
Everywoman 2020
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29. July 2020
Jedermann 2020
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17. August 2020
Hau drauf! 2020
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14. November 2019
Recitals 2020
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orchestra Vienna Philharmonic
14. November 2019
Vienna Philharmonic 2020
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2. August 2020
1000 Kraniche
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27. July 2020
Elektra 2020
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27. July 2020
“Dreaming of a Fairies’ Temple”. Artistic Interventions Regarding Festival Theatres Never Built
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28. July 2020
Così fan tutte 2020
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30. July 2020
Zdeněk Adamec 2020
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Bürgermeister-Stv. Stadt Salzburg Bernhard Auinger, Festspielpräsidentin Helga Rabl-Stadler, Landeshauptmann Wilfried Haslauer, Ausstellungskuratorin Margarethe Lasinger und Martin Hochleitner, Direktor Salzburg Museum
23. July 2020
Anniversary Exhibition Great World Theatre – 100 Years of the Salzburg Festival
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Krzysztof Warlikowski (li), Franz Welser-Möst (re)
17. July 2020
TerraceTalks 2020
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William Kentridge Poster Salzburg Festival
7. July 2020
The Centenary Poster Series of the Salzburg Festival
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9. June 2020
Modified Salzburg Festival 2020
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25. May 2020
25 May 2020 Salzburg Festival’s Supervisory Board
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Cecilia Bartoli singer mezzo-soprano
24. January 2019
Cecilia Bartoli
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22. January 2020
Special-Issue Silver Coin and Stamp Commemorating the Salzburg Festival’s Centenary
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13. November 2019
Annual Press Conference Salzburg Festival 2020
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7. November 2019
Caroline Peters
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Podcasts

Audio

30. July 2020
TerraceTalk Elektra

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    30. July 2020.
  • TerraceTalk Idomeneo
    20. July 2019.

Videos

31. August 2020
Best of Salzburg Festival 2020
Enjoy some highlights of the 2020 Salzburg Festival.
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19. August 2020
Everywoman 2020
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2. August 2020
Zdeněk Adamec 2020
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6. August 2020
Così fan tutte 2020 Trailer
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1. August 2020
Elektra 2020 Trailer
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10. September 2020
Jedermann 2020
The centenary Jedermann at Cathedral Square.
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7. July 2020
The Centenary Poster Series of the Salzburg Festival Video (short version)
Margarethe Lasinger, Head of Dramaturgy and Publications, presents an insight into the poster series for the centenary of the Salzburg Festival
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17. June 2020
100 years of Salzburg Festival
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2. August 2019
Idomeneo Trailer
In this opera, the super-natural element is in fact the natural world: the god Neptune and the sea he embodies as an ancestral force for both healing and destruction inundates the human race with questions of moral reckoning. It is the angry oceans who respond to human violations of a larger, cosmic code. This overwhelming masterpiece by the impatient and supremely gifted young Mozart raises urgent questions related to climate change and its impact on oceans and populations.
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5. August 2019
Médée Trailer
Simon Stone, whose production of Aribert Reimann’s Lear was a highlight of the 2017 Salzburg Festival, will explore in a decidedly contemporary context how it is possible for Medea to act as she does. How does it come to that deed — carried out in anything but a rampage — that in the breaking of an ultimate taboo constitutes the egregious offence of this figure: the killing of her own children?
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10. June 2019
Orphée aux enfers Trailer
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!
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3. August 2019
Alcina Trailer
Take a look at this enchanting glimpse of the production Alcina!
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5. September 2019
Simon Boccanegra Trailer
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.
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14. August 2019
Œdipe Trailer
For his Œdipe George Enescu created a grandiose musical cosmos, which at its time — the mid-1920s — while it could hardly be called avant garde, was in fact innovative. Although it is scored for large forces including many special instruments, the singing voices are not overwhelmed.
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29. August 2019
Salome Trailer
The audience and media agreed in 2018 that Richard Strauss' Salome was an overwhelming experience which would go down in the history of the Salzburg Festival. In 2019 the same cast has assembled for the revival - witness the incomparable Asmik Grigorian (Salome), John Daszak (Herod), Anna Maria Chiuri (Herodias), Gabor Bretz (Jochanaan) and Julian Prégardien (Narraboth).
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8. July 2019
The Outraged
Two siblings have come to the town hall early in the morning. A bag containing their brother’s body lies between them. The two siblings, a sister and a brother, couldn’t be more different: one is the town’s mayor and the other a bohemian type who gets by with various odd jobs.
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5. August 2019
Youth without God Trailer
Having recently staged Ödön von Horváth’s 1931 ‘folk play’ Italienische Nacht (Italian Night), Thomas Ostermeier now tackles a second text by the author from the 1930s, with his dramatization of the novel Jugend ohne Gott (Youth Without God), dealing with the collapse of democracy and civil society.
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17. August 2019
Liliom Trailer
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.
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26. August 2019
Summerfolk Trailer
Gorky’s Summerfolk demonstrates incredible potential for a future society based on contemplation. The intellectual clout of the people who gather together in the play is immense. They unravel their own existence with analytical precision and ask the right questions, but don’t act. Instead, they become entangled in the highly emotional world of their own thoughts.
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9. June 2019
Salzburg Festival 2019
In 2019, we hope to kindle your interest and curiosity about the myths of antiquity! Experience moving productions, high-carat casts and the unique flair of Mozart's city. We invite you to join us in the summer of 2019!
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Best of Salzburg Festival 2020
Everywoman 2020
Zdeněk Adamec 2020
Così fan tutte 2020 Trailer
Elektra 2020 Trailer
Jedermann 2020
The Centenary Poster Series of the Salzburg Festival Video (short version)
100 years of Salzburg Festival
Idomeneo Trailer
Médée Trailer
Orphée aux enfers Trailer
Alcina Trailer
Simon Boccanegra Trailer
Œdipe Trailer
Salome Trailer
The Outraged
Youth without God Trailer
Liliom Trailer
Summerfolk Trailer
Salzburg Festival 2019

Board of Directors

artistic director pianist Markus Hinterhäuser piano
Markus Hinterhäuser
Artistic Director

Biography

Helga Rabl-Stadler President of the Salzburg Festival
Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler
President

Biography

Lukas Crepaz
Lukas Crepaz
Executive Director

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Presse and PR

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Media representatives will be informed about the possibility of accreditation from mid-June 2020. Please send an informal email to: presse.karten@salzburgfestival.at

 

Mag. Ulla Kalchmair
Director of Press and PR
Mag. Anne Zeuner
Press Manager
Mag. Simon Kerschner
Staff Member Press and PR

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The economy and the Salzburg Festival? This is often reduced to mere “indirect profitability” benefiting the state. However, as the world’s leading festival of music and theatre, the Salzburg Festival creates far more than mere fiscal effects – as the centre of an organically grown economic ecosystem, it fulfils many functions and affects Salzburg profoundly as a location for business and companies.

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