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168 presentations in 46 days in 17 locations, integrated between July 17 and August 31. So far the plan for the Salzburg Festival for 2021, which was presented to journalists yesterday by President Helga Rabl-Stadler, Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser, Acting Director Bettina Hering and Concert Director Florian Wiegand.
If all this will play out, no one can predict Corona’s vague situation. It was a complete program, “without any anticipatory pessimism,” as Hinterhäuser called it. Before turning to artistic perspectives, he recalled Robert Musil’s “The Man Without Qualities,” in which he says, “If there is a sense of reality, there must also be something that can be called a sense of possibility.”
First opera: “Don Giovanni”
The requirement when creating the program was “intelligent, constructive and creative pragmatism.” But relying on Musil, there is the possibility that Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” (director: Romeo Castellucci, director: Teodor Currentzis), canceled this year, will open the Salzburg opera on July 26 with six stage productions and two concerts. The success of “Elektra” with Asmik Grigorian in the title role (director: Franz Welser-Möst) will enter its second summer, as will the shortened production of “Così fan tutte” by Christof Loy. Anna Netrebko will perform as “Tosca” (taken from the Pentecost Festival), Elina Garanca in concert as “Marguerite” in “La Damnation de Faust”. The “Boris Godunow” canceled this year and the new production of the “Magic Flute” will be postponed in the future. Hinterhäuser: “That would not have been economically viable in 2021.” After all, CEO Lukas Crepaz’s team had to reverse 180,000 tickets and, after adapting to Corona regulations, had to sell 76,500 new tickets.
After the expansion of the director of Michael Sturminger’s “Jedermann” with new staff (Lars Eidinger / Jedermann, Verena Altenberger / Buhlschaft) everything is waiting for Birgit Minichmayr in the lead role of “Maria Stuart” (director: Martin Kusej). Bettina Hering is already excited about Karin Henkel’s Shakespearean adaptation of “Richard The Kid & The King”: Tom Lanoye, author of the legendary “Battles” (1999), will merge the texts of the two Shakespearean models.
Despite the holiday business, only two-thirds of the 209,071 (newly personalized) cards are on sale, as of February 28. The remaining third won’t be released until May 10. And only if the pandemic allows it, Crepaz said.
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Peter Grubmüller
