SALZBURG FESTIVAL BLOG
TerraceTalk · Beethoven Cycle
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21
Aug
2018
) Conductor Teodor Currentzis and French hornist Christian Binde are guests at the TerraceTalk about this year's Beethoven Cycle, where all of the nine symphonies are performed.
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Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award 2018: Winner Gábor Káli
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6
Aug
2018
) The winner of the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award 2018 is Gábor Káli. Congratulations!
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Kent Nagano: Guaranteeing the Extraordinary
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6
May
2018
) On 20 July 2018 he opens the Ouverture spirituelle with his Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal, performing Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion. In mid-August, Kent Nagano returns to the Felsenreitschule, where Hans Werner Henze’s opera The Bassarids, which had its world premiere in Salzburg in 1966, will be staged.
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Beat Furrer honoured with the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
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23
Jan
2018
) Beat Furrer was honoured today with the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for “a life in service to music”. The Salzburg Festival congratulates him on winning this high distinction.
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Nestlé and Salzburg Festival YCA Award Winner 2017 • Kerem Hasan
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6
Aug
2017
) During the Award Concert Weekend 2017, the 25-year-old Kerem Hasan from Great Britain convinced the international jury chaired by Dennis Russell Davies in a concert with the soloist Anne-Fleur Werner and the Camerata Salzburg at the Mozarteum Foundation.
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Young Voices at the Salzburg Festival
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24
May
2017
) In addition to resounding names like Anna Netrebko, Thomas Hampson, Krassimira Stoyanova, Rolando Villazón, Elīna Garanča or Piotr Beczala the “young voices” are also increasingly moving into the limelight.
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Finalists of the YCA 2017 are choosen
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15
May
2017
) Marie Jacquot (France), Kerem Hasan (Great Britain) and Nuno Filipe Coelho Silva (Portugal) are the three choosen young finalists competing for the 2017 prize during the Award Concert Weekend.
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Number of Youth Subscriptions Doubled
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18
Apr
2017
) Due to high demand, the Salzburg Festival will double the number of its youth subscriptions in 2017. Altogether, 6,000 tickets for operas, dramas and concerts will be reserved for young people up to the age of 26 (i.e. born after June 30, 1990) with discounts of up to 90%.
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The Vienna Philharmonic at 175
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28
Mar
2017
) In the history of the Vienna Philharmonic, which celebrates their 175th anniversary on 28 March 2017, Salzburg occupies a special place – since 1925 the city is the orchestra's summer home.
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Ouverture spirituelle • Transfiguration
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Concert
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11
Jan
2017
) Sacred music, religiously inspired works and sounds which escape from earthly bonds will spark off one another in this year’s Ouverture spirituelle: from the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance to baroque, classical and romantic repertoire, and beyond, to the music of the twentieth century.
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Concerts 2017
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
13:00 h;
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Concert
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7
Dec
2016
) From the very beginning, concerts have been one of the three pillars of the Salzburg Festival’s programme, and the formal structure of the concert programmes has demonstrated great continuity over recent decades.
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