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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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10. April 2020

Cancellation of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival (29 May – 1 June 2020)

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31. March 2020

Mourning the Death of Krzysztof Penderecki

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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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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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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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Salzburg Festival Grosses Festspielhaus Auditorium

8. January 2020

Franz Welser-Möst and Tugan Sokhiev to Conduct, Replacing Mariss Jansons

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2. December 2019

Mourning the Death of Mariss Jansons

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13. November 2019

Annual Press
Conference Salzburg Festival 2020

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16. October 2019

MUSICAL AMERICA announces 2020 AWARDS : SALZBURG FESTIVAL named “Festival of the Year”

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1. October 2019

The Salzburg Festival Mourns the Death of Jessye Norman

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Lukas Crepaz Executive Director Bettina Hering Director Drama Helga Rabl-Stadler President Markus Hinterhäuser Artistic Director Florian Wiegand Director Concert

29. August 2019

Final Report on the 2019 Salzburg Festival

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14. August 2019

Press Text: Terrace Talk Simon Boccanegra

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9. August 2019

Ruth Beckermann: Joyful Joyce – Installation

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7. August 2019

Press Text: Crystal Studio

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5. August 2019

Press Text: Terrace Talk Orphée aux enfers

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28. July 2019

Swarovski crystals sparkle at the Salzburg Festival

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27. July 2019

Pascal Dusapin Accords Photographiques

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Teodor Currentzis Peter Sellars Salzburg Festival

19. July 2019

Terrace Talk Idomeneo

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25. July 2019

Press Text: Terrace Talk Médée

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3. July 2019

Luigi Nono Il canto sospeso: Jens Harzer takes on the role of narrator instead of Bruno Ganz

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Participants of the Young Singers Project 2019

2. July 2019

Young Singers Project 2019 Supported by the Kühne Foundation

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1. July 2019

Grigory Sokolov & the Salzburg Festival present ALEXANDRA DOVGAN

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25. June 2019

Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the two concerts of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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10. June 2019

Final Press Release of the 2019 Salzburg Whitsun Festival

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7. June 2019

Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2020

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17. May 2019

Peter Sellars to Deliver Keynote Address at the Opening of the 2019 Salzburg Festival

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29. April 2019

Press Conference State Exhibition Great World Theatre – The Salzburg Festival Centenary

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12. April 2019

Elena Stikhina will take over the title role in Luigi Cherubini’s opera Médée

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11. April 2019

Interview with Barrie Kosky. How subversive is a can-can?

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4. January 2019

Salzburg Festival 2019: Director Peter Sellars talks about the opening opera “Idomeneo” by W. A. Mozart

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28. December 2018

Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2019: Interview with Cecilia Bartoli

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10. December 2018

Worldwide presentations of the 2019 Salzburg Festival

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1. December 2018

Press Conference Salzburg Festival 2019

Festival Brooch with Rubies for Daniel Barenboim

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25. May 2020

25 May 2020 Salzburg Festival’s Supervisory Board

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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13. November 2019

Annual Press Conference Salzburg Festival 2020

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20. July 2019

TerraceTalk Idomeneo

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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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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

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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.