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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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( 28 Aug 2017 ) Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler, Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser, Lukas Crepaz as Executive Director, Bettina Hering, Director of Drama, and Florian Wiegand, Director of Concerts about the Salzburg Festival 2017.
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published in: General
( 9 Nov 2017 ) A thousand thanks to you. As a result of your interest, involvement and enthusiasm, we were able to exceed our ambitious expectations and make the 2017 Salzburg Festival a true epicentre of the extraordinary. Your positive response and audible, visible joy in the challenge make it our task to continue to explore the great issues of humanity in our 2018 programme.
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( 11 Dec 2017 ) Clemens Hellsberg illuminates the complex relationships the Vienna Philharmonic has with Salzburg. This book launch signals the beginning of a series of publications leading up to the 100th anniversary of the Salzburg Festival.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
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published in: Opera, General
( 15 Dec 2017 ) Mark Swed/LOS ANGELES TIMES chooses the Salzburg Festival as Festival of the year.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
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( 8 Jan 2018 ) At Christmas the Salzburg Festival received the sad news that Gerhard “Gerry” Andlinger – founder and long-time President of the Salzburg Festival Society and a generous patron of the Festival – died on 22nd December 2017 at the age of 86 in New York.
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( 14 Jan 2018 ) The Salzburg Festival congratulates Mariss Jansons, one of the pre-eminent conductors of our time, on his 75th birthday, which he celebrates on Sunday, 14 January.
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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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( 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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( 22 May 2018 ) It was the seventh Whitsun Festival under the artistic direction of Cecilia Bartoli. Seven events between 18 and 21 May 2018 took place under the motto “1868 – Year of Ruptures”. Read the results of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2018 on the blog.
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