Theater is a reflection of human experience, with all its feelings and conflicts. This is why the team behind this year’s Salzburg Festival, led by artistic director Marcus Hentrahasar, has a program together which symbolizes the worldwide crises. Thus bloodshed and power struggle is thus not only open in the world, so the festival itself (July 18 to 31 August). The program spreads cruel rivalry from antiquity to the first world.
Focus in focus
Heinterhäuser says, there are always people like Trump and Putin. Lust for power has been a part of world history.
Thus, it is no surprise that power, that universal medicine, has inspired many opera.
For example, the Roman General Julius Caesar will be told about George Friedrich Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Exito”, such as Getano Donizetty’s “Maria Sturda”, who is dedicated to the Scottish Queen, Mary Stuart. Mozart is represented with his opera “Mitraidate, Ray Di Ponto” about the ruler of the fallen empire of Pontus at Asia Minor, and the story of Verdie’s “Macbeth” Royal Army Commander and later the story of Scottish King. And finally, “The Last Days of Mankind,” a drama based on the disturbing book of Carl Cruce, deal with The Horrors of World War I.
One thing is the same among the rulers of the past: their power is falling. And each reacts differently to the unavoidable end – whether a cololette effort to avoid hardness, fear, despair or destiny. Opera, musical theater and stage plays act as a magnifying glass, which brightens various scenarios of their death. “It gives us an opportunity to act, audience,”, “called Marcus Hinterhuser. Performance art “opens the spaces of change, location of change.”
A program for ‘Everyman’
The festival website says that about 222.500 tickets are available for a total of 174 opera, drama and concert performance. The musical theater is traditionally program flagship, and this year it has 12 products from baroque to contemporary tasks.
With unconventional and traditional demonstrations by large-nams, such as the annual production of “everyone” (or “Hermann”) on the steps of Salzburg Cathedral, the festival is correct for guiding principles established 100 years ago the theater producers Max Rainhardt and Hugo 100 years ago.
Among other people, director Peter Sellers and conductor leads the Esa-Pecca Salonon Vienne Philharmonic Orchestra, which will present a new production called “One Morning Turns in Aternity”. They will combine the Arnold Sconburg’s monoderama “Atekhana” (expectation) to Gustav Mahal’s symphony “lying von der meaning” (Earth’s song) – will associate with “farewell” (farewell) to the role model of Sconberg.
A famous Russian writer Vladimir is a “The Blizard” drama based on a book by Sorokin, who ran away from Putin and his follower. In a deadly storm, his hero, a young doctor, discovered the light and hope.
Even the Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis, a controversial figure due to their dual Russian citizenship and their fierceness to overcome the aggression of aggression against Ukraine from the war of Russia, would return with their Utopia orchestra in 2025 with their Utopia orchestra in 2025, which was currently established for performing west.
Many Russian artists – but not Davidowa
In December 2024, the scam around the dismissal of the Russian festival director Marina Davidova witnessed the presentation of the Salzburg program. Drama – who is a vocal critic of the Putin regime – was rejected for a violation of the contract: Davidova worked for another festival, nor without receiving the authority to do so from the Salzburg Festival.
In addition, the festival program shows a great deal of solidarity with the artists who have changed their backs on Putin’s empire: for example, Russian director Kiril Cerebrannikov (Sorokine’s “The Blizzard”), Dimitri Tchniakov (Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Exit” Titov (three bareburgas “.
“I make no secret to the fact that, as a pianoist, I am a great fan of the Russian Pianoist tradition,” told DW by Hinterhoser, director of the Salzburg Festival. Grigori Socolov, Arcadi Volodos, Avgeny Kisin, Daniel Tiaphoneov and Alexander want to perform in Malofev Salzburg. He will honor the musician and pianoist Dimitri Shostkovic, especially with a series of musicians marking the 50th anniversary of his death on 9 August.
Ukrainian writer Mariana Kianovska has a reading plan to read a reading-out of her multi-disciplinary work “The Voice of Baby Yaar”, in which she recalls the killing of more than 30,000 Jews by Nazis in September 1941.
This article was original in German.
