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“We have decided to do a full program without premature pessimism.” Festival director Markus Hinterhäuser said this Thursday when plans for the summer 2021 festival were unveiled: It was a program that the world loves at the Salzburg Festival.
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Planned corona effects
The effects of Corona would be felt massively in the coming years, so you have to think in perspective and proceed with caution so that the Festival of the Tankers lasts for the next few years.
Mozart’s opera opens July 26
Hinterhäuser spoke of “intelligent, constructive and creative pragmatism”. Six stage productions and two concerts are planned for the opera sector: The opening will be on July 26 with “Don Giovanni” by Mozart, performed by Romeo Castellucci and directed by Teodor Currentzis. There is also “Intolleranza 1960” by Luigi Nono, which Jan Lauwers is supposed to have designed. Strauss’s “Elektra”, conducted by Krzysztof Warlikowski, for which Franz Welser-Möst will once again conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, will be revived. And also returning is Mozart’s acclaimed staging of Christof Loy’s “Cosi fan tutte” with Joana Mallwitz as director.
The concept of taking over the productions of partner institutions will also be implemented in 2021. For example, Handel’s stage oratorio “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno”, directed by Robert Carsen, and the Puccini Easter Festival, ” Tosca, “directed by Michael Sturminger, will be featured on the show. Morton Feldman’s “Neither” and Hector Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” are scheduled to perform in concert.
Festival guests have to wait
“In some cases we will have to test the sorting yard a bit more,” Hinterhäuser said. The “Boris Godunow” scheduled for 2020, as well as the new production of Lydia Steier’s “Magic Flute” will also not be available next year. That is currently “economically unjustifiable,” the director said.
“All” with fans from Salzburg
The “Jedermann”, the foundational piece of the Salzburg Festival, will open the theater program on July 17. Lars Eidinger and Verena Altenberger are the new couple at Domplatz. Acting director Bettina Hering promised a “surprising and comprehensive further development” of Michael Sturminger’s “Jedermann” production.
Program highlights on Perner Island
Hering promises the rediscovery of a “treasure” with “Das Bergwerk zu Falun” from the creator of “Jedermann”, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, played by Jossi Wieler. The “Maria Stuart” on Perner Island on August 14th will follow Burgtheater boss Martin Kusej.
Muti conducts “Missa solemnis” for the first time
In the concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic, that of Riccardo Muti stands out. For the first time in his career he will conduct Beethoven’s “Missa solemnis”, said concert director Florian Wiegand. On the occasion of his 80th birthday and 50th anniversary on the Festival stage, Muti and his Chicago Symphony Orchestra will play two concerts in the “Orchester zu Gast” cycle. Asmik Grigorian, Benjamin Bernheim, Gerald Finley, and Matthias Goerne can be heard at the song recitals.
Flexible crown safety concept
The security concept will be adapted to the respective situation, said Lukas Crepaz, commercial director of the festival. 209,071 cards were issued for 2021. In a first step, two-thirds will go on sale, the order period has been postponed from the beginning of January to the end of February. “The last third will not be released until the pandemic allows it,” Crepaz said. All tickets are personalized and seats are dynamically assigned according to an expanded checkerboard concept. This means that visitors who order together are seated together and there are spots available afterwards. Crepaz considers that the vaccines or tests for the public are “disproportionate.” The festival had proven in the summer of 2020 that safe events are possible even in Corona times.
You can find the full program here.
(Those: APA)
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