Blog entries for "Festival Ball"
( 28 Aug 2014 ) Popping corks and hearty specialties are part of a successful and glittering ball night, just as much as a teeming dance floor! The Ball caterer – the Hotel Goldener Hirsch – will cooperate with our sponsors and partners to ensure that our Ball guests find all their culinary wishes fulfilled.
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( 25 Aug 2014 ) More than 700 prizes have been donated by Austrian and international companies. Visitors have the opportunity to buy tombola tickets during the gala dinner at the Residenz or later at the ball location until midnight. Tickets cost € 20 individually or in packets of 10; there are at least three guaranteed winning tickets in each packet. Try your luck!
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( 22 Aug 2014 ) I enjoy taxi dancing because one is always in good company and is doing both the ladies and the gentlemen who are not as keen on dancing a favour – thus the motivation of the former professional ballroom dancer Stefan L. to travel from Vienna to Salzburg’s Festival Ball and act as a taxi dancer. He is one of 10 so-called taxi dancers of all ages who will be waiting at the taxi dancers’ booth inside the Felsenreitschule ballroom to be “borrowed” by dance-loving ladies for two to three dances. Not all the taxi dancers are professionals, but all of them have a gold-star command of the standard ballroom dances, and they look forward to leading you onto the dance floor on August 30 at the Salzburg Festival Ball at the Felsenreitschule!
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( 18 Aug 2014 ) We thank the guests of this year’s Festival Ball with the brand-new CD of this year’s Young Singers Project and the book Prima la Musica by Benedikt Kobel, recently published by Amalthea. Furthermore, the firms Bogner, Marc O’Polo and Andrea Eberle have donated keepsakes for ladies and gentlemen.
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( 30 Jul 2014 ) Not only our Festival Ball debutantes are styled by professionals – you too can entrust your looks to the teams of Coiffeure Sturmayr and MAC Cosmetics, available at our exclusive Beauty Boudoir at the Haus für Mozart. Starting at the same time as the doors open, at 8:30 pm, the stylists are at your service, touching up your makeup or your ball hairdo. After a few rounds on the dance floor, perhaps you need a few quiet minutes – in that case, let your tense neck muscles, your hands or dance-wearied feet be pampered by a massage at the booth of Salzburg’s Institut Hobé from Heidi Steger!
( 17 Jul 2014 ) Some of the soloists of this year’s productions Don Giovanni and Fierrabras were recently given a welcome break from their rehearsal marathon. They were asked to lend their discerning palates to the tasting of the Festival Ball Gala Dinner at Genusswelt Döllerer in Golling. The meal will be served to about 500 guests at the Archiepiscopal Residence on Saturday, August 30, as part of the Salzburg Festival Ball.
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( 7 Jul 2014 ) Stiegl is good for surprises and treats for the taste buds – that was impressively proven when the largest private brewery in Austria offered a tasting of some of its beer specialties. Its director, Alessandra Kiener, and Elisabeth Gürtler, a member of the Honorary Committee, had invited the Festival Ball’s Patronesses to the Stiegl Brauwelt.
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( 12 Jun 2014 ) The Salzburg Festival Ball will resemble a glittering fairy-tale for the third time on Saturday, August 30, 2014. The Motto is “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella). The opera of the same name by Gioachino Rossini, having just elicited wildly enthusiastic reactions from the Whitsun Festival audience, will also be performed during the last weekend of the Festival season. Celebrated as Cinderella Angelina on stage at the Haus für Mozart, an appearance by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli crowns the festive concert opening the Festival Ball at the Felsenreitschule.
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( 9 May 2014 ) With its unique 96 arcades, the Felsenreitschule was first used in 1926 by Max Reinhardt for a Salzburg Festival production. On Saturday, August 30, 2014 it will be transformed into a sumptuous backdrop of a ball for the third time already, providing an elegant and imaginative framework for Festival artists and ball guests. As a prelude to the preparations for the ball, on Thursday, May 8, 2014 the members of this year’s Patroness Committee had a get-together at Salzburg’s Hotel Sacher. They were invited by the Festival’s Artistic Director Alexander Pereira, its President Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler and the Sacher’s director, Elisabeth Gürtler. The event was given its musical flavour by the young Slovak bass Peter Kellner.
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( 27 Aug 2013 ) The countdown for the 2013 Festival Ball has begun! The stage sets at the Felsenreitschule have been dismantled, the two carpenter’s workshops Gehmacher and Niederreiter have begun their preparations with the Festival’s team of technicians, and together they are transforming the performance venue into an impressive ballroom.
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