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Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Board of Directors, f.l.t.r: Lukas Crepaz, Helga Rabl-Stadler, Markus Hinterhäuser, Cecilia Bartoli

24. May 2021

Final Press Release of the 2021 Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award 2021

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21. May 2021

jung & jede*r
The Salzburg Festival’s Youth Programme

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Salzburg Festival Board of Directors Lukas Crepaz Helga Rabl-Stadler Markus Hinterhäuser

11. May 2021

Salzburg Festival named “Festival of the Year” at Opera Awards

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5. May 2021

ROMA ÆTERNA – Additional Concert featuring Cecilia Bartoli and the Film Series “Roma Amor” in Detail

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29. April 2021

Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2021

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26. April 2021

Mourning the Death of Christa Ludwig

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20. April 2021

Keynote speaker 2021: Julian Nida-Rümelin

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Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2021 rehearsals

19. April 2021

Start of rehearsals Whitsun Festival 2021 – ROMA ÆTERNA

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22. March 2021

BWT is the new Global sponsor of the Salzburg Festival through 2026

Interview: Karin Henkel on William Shakespeare’s Richard the Kid & the King

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Intolleranza 1960 Opera Salzburg Festival

18. February 2021

Intolleranza 1960 by Luigi Nono: First Rehearsals with Director and Choreographer Jan Lauwers in Salzburg

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5. February 2021

Jossi Wieler on Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Das Bergwerk zu Falun

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6. January 2021

Luigi Nono: Intolleranza 1960

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14. June 2021

Verena Altenberger and Lars Eidinger | Jedermann Start of Rehearsals

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24. May 2021

Tosca – Concert performance

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22. May 2021

La clemenza di Tito – Opera seria

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21. May 2021

Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno – Scenic oratorio

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29. May 2020

Cain, overo il primo omicidio – Oratorio in two parts

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12. May 2021

Bartoli · Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco · Capuano concert

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22. May 2021

Poema sinfonico Orchestra concert

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23. May 2021

Die Zertrennlichen 2021

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21. May 2021

Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award 2021

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Keynote Speaker 2021: Julian Nida-Rümelin

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29. April 2021

Whitsun Festival 2021

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19. April 2021

Start of rehearsals Whitsun Festival 2021 – ROMA ÆTERNA

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22. March 2021

BWT is the new Global sponsor of the Salzburg Festival through 2026

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18. February 2021

Intolleranza 1960 by Luigi Nono: First Rehearsals with Director and Choreographer Jan Lauwers in Salzburg

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Helga Rabl-Stadler-Markus Hinterhäuser-Lukas Crepaz-Bettina Hering-Florian Wiegand

10. December 2020

Programme presentation and artists 2021

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Podcast

30. July 2020

TerraceTalk Elektra

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TerraceTalk Elektra

30. July 2020.
TerraceTalk Idomeneo

20. July 2019.

Videos

10. December 2020

Trailer Salzburg Festival 2021

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31. March 2021

Così fan tutte 2021

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31. March 2021

Don Giovanni 2021

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31. March 2021

Elektra 2021

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10. February 2021

Das Bergwerk zu Falun 2021

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5. March 2021

Karin Henkel on Richard the Kid and the King 2021

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2. April 2021

Easter Greetings 2021 · Salzburg Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler

“I wish you Happy Easter on behalf of the Salzburg Festival as its President. However, I must confess that this year I hesitate slightly in saying this.” Watch the video for the full statement by Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler.

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1. January 2021

New Year’s greetings from Salzburg Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler

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15. January 2021

Film about the programme 2021

Join Salzburg Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler and Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser on a tour of the 2021 Festival programme.

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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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Trailer Salzburg Festival 2021

Così fan tutte 2021

Don Giovanni 2021

Elektra 2021

Das Bergwerk zu Falun 2021

Karin Henkel on Richard the Kid and the King 2021

Easter Greetings 2021 · Salzburg Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler

New Year’s greetings from Salzburg Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler

Film about the programme 2021

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

Markus Hinterhäuser

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Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler

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Lukas Crepaz

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Press Tickets

Media representatives will be informed about the allocation of press tickets for the Whitsun Festival starting in mid-May, and for the Salzburg Festival starting in June 2021. The accreditation deadline for the Salzburg Festival ends on 1 July 2021.

Please submit your accreditation requests for Whitsun and Summer by email to:
presse.karten@salzburgfestival.at
Tel.: +43 662 8045 – 453 (from May onwards)
Until that time, please call +43 662 8045 – 390 with any inquiries.

Since we plan to adapt the technical process of accreditation as well as the allocation of press tickets, we reserve the right to change this process. Of course such adaptations will be service-oriented and efficient. We look forward to welcoming you to the Salzburg Whitsun Festival under the artistic leadership of Cecilia Bartoli, and to the 2021 Salzburg Festival.

Mag. Ulla Kalchmair

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Mag. Anne Zeuner

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Mag. Simon Kerschner

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Facts & Figures

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.