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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
14:51
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published in: General
( 5 Aug 2016 ) Once again, many concerts and operas will be broadcast by radio and television, so you can hear them after the event or even live. Thanks to the cooperations between the Salzburg Festival and its various media partners, you can enjoy first-rate productions without ever buying a ticket. Many of the broadcasts are even live! Thus, you find yourself in the thick of the action – in the comfort of your own home. Mark the dates in your calendar now, so that you won’t miss any of the highlights of this Festival summer.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
12:00
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published in: General
( 6 Aug 2016 ) If you want to take a piece of the Salzburg Festival home with you, you are in good hands
with Andreas Vogl and his team. At the Festival Shop you will find CDs recorded
by the artists you have admired on stage at the Festival – or whom you may have
missed, and still want to hear!
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
16:19
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published in: Opera
( 5 Aug 2016 ) When Anna Netrebko sings, she is always moved to tears, says Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler at the press conversation with the singer. “Anna has made Festival history, and I hope that she will continue to do so.”
The Russian artist starts by pointing out that she has worn a colourful outfit to counteract the rain outside, taking her seat on the podium with a smile.
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( 7 Aug 2016 ) During the Award Concert Weekend 2016, the 27-year-old Aziz Shokhakimov from Uzbekistan convinced the international jury chaired by Dennis Russell Davies in a concert with soloist Mingjie Lei and the Camerata Salzburg at the Mozarteum Foundation.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
17:17
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published in: General
( 13 Aug 2016 )
Festival
President Helga Rabl-Stadler received a medal of the Republic of Italy today.
She received the “Grande Ufficiale dell’ordine della Stella d’Italia” in the
presence of Maestro Riccardo Muti after his concert with the Vienna
Philharmonic. The medal was presented by the Ambassador of the Republic of
Italy in Vienna, H. E. Giorgio Marrapodi.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
16:05
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published in: General
( 20 Aug 2016 ) 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.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
11:05
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published in: Opera
( 21 Aug 2016 ) An airhead? No! – That is not Susanna at all. “She holds all the threads in her hand,” says Anna Prohaska, who sings the role in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro this Festival summer. Still, the focus of Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s production is more on the Count and Countess, the soprano says. And yet Susanna is “the Hans Sachs of lyric sopranos,” she says with a laugh. After all, Susanna is constantly on stage.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
15:15
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published in: Opera
( 24 Aug 2016 )
Clemens
Hellsberg describes it as one of the happiest moments of his professional life
– the former Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic refers to an email he received
from tenor Juan Diego Flórez. In that email, the tenor voiced his interest in
performing the opera Il templario by
Otto Nicolai, the founder of the Vienna Philharmonic. Hellsberg is not only the
former Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic, but also a veritable expert on the
life and work of Otto Nicolai. “It is very meaningful when a great artist such
as Flórez champions such a rarely performed opera,” says Clemens Hellsberg.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
10:17
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published in: Drama, General
( 31 Aug 2016 )
The completely
sold-out drama programme was also extremely successful, featuring three new
productions, the revival of Jedermann,
the staged melodrama Requiem für Ernst
Jandl and two readings of selected works by Thomas Bernhard.
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( 31 Aug 2016 )
81 concerts were presented at the 2016 Salzburg Festival. As in recent years, the Ouverture
spirituelle opened the Festival, exploring Eastern Christianity in
2016. Five sold-out concerts offered a portrayal of this highly diverse vocal
music.
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