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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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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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Mariss Jansons Conductor
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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Jessye Norman Salzburg Festival
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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Accords Photographiques
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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Simon Stone Thomas Hengelbrock
25. July 2019
Press Text: Terrace Talk Médée
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Jens Harzer
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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Alexandra Dovgan
1. July 2019
Grigory Sokolov & the Salzburg Festival present ALEXANDRA DOVGAN
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor
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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Peter Sellars Direction Director
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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Opera Singer Elena Stikhina
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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Peter Sellars Teodor Currentzis
4. January 2019
Salzburg Festival 2019: Director Peter Sellars talks about the opening opera “Idomeneo” by W. A. Mozart
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Cecilia Bartoli singer mezzo-soprano
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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Lukas Crepaz Executive Director Bettina Hering Director Drama Helga Rabl-Stadler President Markus Hinterhäuser Artistic Director Florian Wiegand Director Concert
1. December 2018
Press Conference Salzburg Festival 2019
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Bettina Hering (Drama), Florian Wiegand (Concert), Lukas Crepaz (Executive Director), Helga Rabl-Stadler (President), Markus Hinterhäuser (Artistic Director)
14. November 2018
Final Report 2018
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14. November 2018
Festival Brooch with Rubies for Daniel Barenboim
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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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13. November 2019
Annual Press Conference Salzburg Festival 2020
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7. November 2019
Caroline Peters
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14. August 2019
Vienna Philharmonic Concert series 2019
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14. August 2019
Chamber Concerts 2019
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29. August 2019
Guest Orchestras
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Luisa Miller Salzburger Festspiele 2019: Oleg Zalytskiy (Chorus soloist), John Relyea (Wurm), Plácido Domingo (Miller), Yulia Matochkina (Federica), Piotr Beczala (Rodolfo), Nino Machaidze (Luisa), James Conlon (Conductor), Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg
24. August 2019
Luisa Miller 2019
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26. August 2019
Special Concerts
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25. August 2019
Salome 2019
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12. August 2019
Young Singers Project
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10. August 2019
Mozart Matinees
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21. August 2019
Lied Recitals 2019
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22. August 2019
Recitals 2019
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21. August 2019
Camerata Salzburg Concert series 2019
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17. August 2019
Die Empörten (The Outraged) 2019
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11. August 2019
Drama Investigations 2019
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18. August 2019
Final Performance Orpheus Camp 2019
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16. August 2019
Liliom 2019
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15. August 2019
Simon Boccanegra 2019
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16. August 2019
Readings 2019
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15. August 2019
TerraceTalks
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14. August 2019
Orphée aux enfers 2019
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12. August 2019
Œdipe 2019
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11. August 2019
Final Performance Oedipus Camp 2019
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29. July 2019
Alcina 2019
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11. August 2019
Joyful Joyce Installation
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8. August 2019
Chamber Concerts Wiener Philharmoniker
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7. August 2019
Crystal Atelier
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7. August 2019
Time with DUSAPIN
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3. August 2019
Final Performance Medea Camp II 2019
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11. August 2019
Summerfolk 2019
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29. July 2019
Médée 2019
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1. August 2019
Adriana Lecouvreur 2019
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28. July 2019
Swarovski crystals sparkle at the Salzburg Festival
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23. July 2019
Idomeneo 2019
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27. July 2019
Final Performance Medea Camp 2019
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11. August 2019
Jugend ohne Gott (Youth Without God) 2019
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26. July 2019
Opera for children
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29. July 2019
Ouverture spirituelle · Lacrimae
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Accords Photographiques
26. July 2019
Pascal Dusapin Accords Photographiques
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11. August 2019
Jedermann 2019
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16. July 2019
The paramour’s dresses
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Jens Harzer
3. July 2019
Jens Harzer
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Opera Alcina Salzburg Whitsun Festival Sandrine Piau Kristina Hammarström Philippe Jaroussky Cecilia Bartoli
4. June 2019
Alcina: Whitsun 2019
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Opera Polifemo Max Emanuel Cencic Salzburg Whitsun Festival
1. June 2019
Polifemo: Whitsun 2019
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Peter Sellars Director Direction
15. May 2019
Peter Sellars
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Lukas Crepaz Kaufmännischer Direktor Bettina Hering Leitung Schauspiel Helga Rabl-Stadler Festspielpräsidentin Markus Hinterhäuser Intendant Florian Wiegand Leitung Konzert
6. November 2018
Direktorium der Salzburger Festspiele
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Helga Rabl-Stadler President of the Salzburg Festival
7. November 2018
Helga Rabl-Stadler, President of the Salzburg Festival
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artistic director pianist Markus Hinterhäuser piano
7. November 2018
Markus Hinterhäuser, Artistic Director
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7. November 2018
Lukas Crepaz, Executive Director
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17. August 2019
Die Empörten (The Outraged)
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20. July 2019
TerraceTalk Idomeneo

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Videos

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

Board of Directors

artistic director pianist Markus Hinterhäuser piano
Markus Hinterhäuser
Artistic Director

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

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Lukas Crepaz
Executive Director

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