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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
11:30
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published in: General
( 21 Jul 2016 )
30 Performance Venues – 78 Events – More than 10,500 Free Tickets
"The Festival Opening Party is meant as a gift of the Salzburg Festival and its Association of Friends to the citizens of Salzburg and the guests of our city. We are delighted that we were again able to extend it to two days this year," Helga Rabl-Stadler and Sven-Eric Bechtolf declared.
Music, drama, readings, exhibitions and dance
on every corner, all over the city – for two days, the beginning of the
Festival summer is celebrated all over Salzburg with the Festival Opening
Party.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
12:55
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published in: Concert
( 16 Jul 2016 ) The Young Singers Project was founded by the Salzburg Festival in 2008 in order to support young talents, offering them a platform to prove their abilities. During the 2016 Festival summer, numerous participants of former editions of the Young Singers Project return to the Salzburg Festival stages, starring alongside renowned Festival artists.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
13:58
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published in: General
( 18 Jul 2016 ) You want to know whether there are still tickets left for your favourite performance, whether tickets have been returned and are thus available, and in what categories? Here’s how to get a quick and easy overview of available tickets!
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
16:08
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published in: General
( 22 Jul 2016 ) The technical department of the Salzburg Festival is the focus of this year’s photo exhibition. Through the Leica project Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten (Boards that Signify the World) the photographers Robert Mertens and Heidi Simon allow glimpses behind the scenes and into the workshops of the Salzburg Festival – from their very own perspective. Lighting, acoustics, stage technology, painting and sculpting, sets, props, video technology, locksmithery, the wallpaper department and carpenter’s shops were scrutinised through the lens. The elaborate production processes behind each performance and the atmosphere behind the scenes are rendered visible. In their images, they combine their own artistic themes, such as “movement and changes”, dynamic black-and-white photography and creative serial concepts. The images were taken in June and July 2015. Simon and Mertens consciously decided not to stage any of their photographs, instead capturing daily working conditions using only available light.
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( 25 Jul 2016 ) The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg celebrates its 175-year anniversary this year. The orchestra has been an important part of the Salzburg Festival since its founding in 1920, says Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler during the Terrace Talk on Monday. Ever since, the Mozarteum Orchestra has performed in 885 concerts, 329 opera and 324 plays at the Festival. “Thus, it is not exaggerated to say: the Mozarteum Orchestra is a part of us. Just as we are part of the Mozarteum Orchestra,” says Helga Rabl-Stadler. This Festival summer, the orchestra will appear not only during the Mozart Matinees, but the musicians will also perform under Ottavio Dantone’s baton at the Felsenreitschule in Mozart’s opera Così fan tutte.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
13:52
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published in: General
( 26 Jul 2016 ) The Culture Festival for Everyone Celebrates its Birthday
From July 28 to August 31, 2016 Salzburg’s Kapitelplatz once again turns into the venue for Europe’s most successful public viewing event: every year the Siemens Festival>Nights attract about 70,000 culture enthusiasts to Salzburg’s historic city centre. This makes them an essential economic factor and a magnet for tourism in the region. In
cooperation with the Salzburg Festival, ORF Salzburg and Unitel, Siemens screens Festival productions and concerts for five weeks, using state-of-the-art audio and video technology and a daylight-compatible LED wall.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
11:59
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published in: Opera
( 27 Jul 2016 )
“The
atmosphere at the rehearsals is wonderful, despite the fact that this difficult
– and therefore rarely performed – work does present special challenges for the
outstanding cast of singers and the Vienna Philharmonic. The wonderful results
of a previous cooperation on a Strauss opera – namely Der Rosenkavalier in 2014 and 2015 – between Franz Welser-Möst, the
Vienna Philharmonic and Krassimira Stoyanova seems to me to portend nothing but
good for 2016,” says Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
15:37
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published in: General
( 1 Aug 2016 )
Furthering
its motto “Salzburg meets China”, today the Salzburg Festival presented its
cooperation with Hantang Culture. The two partners announced the first concert
tour of members of the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project in China.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
13:01
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published in: General
( 2 Aug 2016 ) On Saturday, July 30, the Siemens Festival>Nights celebrated their 15-year anniversary on Salzburg’s Kapitelplatz. On stage, the hosts, Helga Rabl-Stadler, President of the Salzburg Festival, Wolfgang Hesoun, Director-General of Siemens Austria, and Roland Brunhofer, Director of ORF Salzburg, discussed the cultural, economic and social relevance of the Siemens Festival>Nights.
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
12:20
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published in: Opera
( 4 Aug 2016 ) For the first time, Charles Gounod’s Faust will be performed at the Salzburg Festival. At the Terrace Talk, Reinhard von der Thannen (director, set and costume designer) and conductor Alejo Pérez offered first insights into their concept.
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