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President Helga Rabl-Stadler and Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser have announced a full program for next summer in Salzburg. At least two-thirds of the second attempt to celebrate the centenary will be sold, says CFO Lukas Crepaz.
The artist and the administration of the Salzburg Festival had formed an enthusiastic community in the extraordinary summer of 2020, said artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser on the occasion of the presentation of the Salzburg program in 2021: Since the end of July, more than 209,000 tickets will be issued for the usual extensive program, which, according to CFO Lukas Crepanz, will likely be offered in two stages: First, two-thirds of the tickets will go on sale. The rest can be released if the development of the pandemic allows it.
In 2020, the festival was able to set a clear example: unlike Bayreuth and other major venues, Salzburg was able to implement a scaled down version of the planned anniversary season thanks to a sophisticated security concept that was later adopted and adapted around the world. What could not happen last summer should almost fully recover in 2021. The successful productions of “Elektra” and “Così fan tutte” are repeated.
“Tosca” and “Don Giovann”
So next summer there could be the announced “Tosca” with Anna Netrebko as well as – at the opening, the “Don Giovann”, represented by Romeo Castellucci and directed by Teodor Currentzis. There will also be Jan Lauwers’ production of Luigi Nono’s “Intolleranza 1960” and, as an acquisition for Cecilia Bartoli’s Pentecost Festival, Handel’s “Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Del Disinganno”, staged by Robert Carsen.
Morton Feldman’s “Neither” and Berlioz’s “Fausts Verdammnis” with Elina Garanca as Margarethe are expected to be performed in concert.
Acting Director Bettina Hering announced a collage of Karin Henkel’s Shakespeare, “Richard The Kid & The King” and Schiller’s “Maria Stuart” on Perner Island, as well as Hofmannsthal’s “Mine to Falun” (director: Jossi Wieler) on the Landestheater.
Schiller production with Birgit Michimayr
Theater productions are accompanied by readings. Thus, in parallel to Martin Kusej’s production of Schiller with Birgit Michimayr, Hanna Schygulla will lend her voice to Stefan Zweig’s “Maria Stuart”.
What cannot be made possible in musical theater in the face of the necessary pragmatism in times of crisis (“Boris Godnow” and the “Magic Flute” have to wait), the festival’s programming aims to make up for it. As usual, there are intellectual bridges in the festival’s programming.
Florian Wiegand’s concert program provides a complement to Feldman’s stage production and also references a series of Bach concerts under the motto Heavenward: Thomas Zehetmeier, Andras Schiff, Daniil Trifonov (Art of Fugue) are part of the party , like the Roses of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with a danced version of the suites for cello under the title “We are in the middle of life” for live performances by Jean Guihen Queyras.
The inaugural cycle Ouverture spirituelle, which has been established since 2012, will also resume, offering concerts under the motto “Pax – Friede” before the actual inaugural premiere in memory of the original founding idea of the 1920 Festival.
Among other things, John-Eliot Gardiner will be on the directors’ podium of the Camerata Salzburg for the first time in memory of Bernhard Paumgartner, who died 50 years ago. To celebrate Friedrich Cerha’s 95th birthday, the concert program includes his innovative “Spiegel” cycle. Regulars like Igor Levit, Grigory Sokolow or the singer Juan-Diego Florez and … they come with solo shows. Chamber music attracts more and more unusually busy works to Schönberg’s “Pierro Lunaire”.
Joanna Mallwitz, who made her breakthrough last year with “Così fan tutte”, is available for a project that aims to bring classical music closer to the difficult target group of those in their 20s: the festival, according to President Rabl -Stadler, would return in 2021 Country and go to school to show their regional roots.
In readings and debates on the occasion of the festival’s anniversary, the investigation series is devoted to the manifestos and the question of which of the powerful writings between the Communist and Futurist manifesto continue to have an impact today.
