This was the Salzburg Festival 2018
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
08:19 h;
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General
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29
Aug
2018
) The Salzburg Festival 2018 covered a total of 206 performances at 18 performance venues. Now it is time, to resume this summer that was characterized by works of passion and ecstasy.
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Festival Brooch for Daniel Barenboim
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
09:38 h;
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General
(
28
Aug
2018
) The great artist, conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim was presented with the Festival Brooch with rubies by Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler.
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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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TerraceTalk · The Bassarids
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15
Aug
2018
) Krzysztof Warlikowski, Kent Nagano, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Sean Panikkar and Russell Braun at the TerraceTalk on Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids.
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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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TerraceTalk · L’incoronazione di Poppea
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31
Jul
2018
) In this TerraceTalk you will find out, how it actually came, that Jan Lauwers took on the direction of L’incoronazione di Poppea and a lot more.
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TerraceTalk · Salome
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29
Jul
2018
) Director Romeo Castellucci explains his view onto the opera Salome.
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Klaus Maria Brandauer assumes the role of the Narrator in Die Zauberflöte
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12
Jul
2018
) Bruno Ganz has to withdraw his participation in the new production of Die Zauberflöte for health reasons. We are very happy to have found another world star to assume the role of the Narrator in Die Zauberflöte: Klaus Maria Brandauer.
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Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2019 · Voci celesti
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22
May
2018
) Cecilia Bartoli dedicates the program of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2019 with the title “Voci celesti – Heavenly voices” to the art of the great castratos. It is no coincidence, that Bartoli is realizing this idea, which she is thinking about for a while already, right now.
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Enshrouded in the Mist of Legends
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22
May
2018
) ‘Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato’. (If it is not true, it is very well invented.) – This aphorism, formulated by the philosopher and priest Giordano Bruno, serves as a useful caveat when reading the legends written about castrati. Basking in the rays of international fame, they hold a dual position in music history as heroes and great mysteries.
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This has been the Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2018
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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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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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Mariss Jansons celebrates his 75th birthday
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
06:30 h;
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General
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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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Obituary: Gerhard Andlinger
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FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
13:24 h;
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General
(
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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