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PERFORMANCE DATES FOR 2010

OPERA PERFORMANCE DETAILS

27 July 19:30

30 July 20:00

05 August 20:00

08 August 15:00

Text by Wolfgang Rihm after Friedrich Nietzsche's Dionysus Dithyrambs

Ingo Metzmacher, Conductor
Pierre Audi, Stage Director
Jonathan Meese, Set Design
Jorge Jara, Costume Design
Jean Kalman, Lighting
Klaus Bertisch, Dramaturgy

CAST

Johannes Martin Kränzle, Dionysos
Mojca Erdmann, Soprano
Elin Rombo, Soprano
Matthias Klink, Tenor
Virpi Räisänen, Mezzo-soprano
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Friedrich Nietzsche's late cycle of poems Dionysus-Dithyrambs is the inspiration and point of departure for Wolfgang Rihm's latest music-theater work, which will have its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival. The director Pierre Audi, who has ample experience in working with visual artists, shows how the god of inebriation finds his way into the texts of the philosopher, already marked by madness, how his erotic, traumatized, platonic and pathological relationships with the most important women in his life can be revealed through music, motion and images, how the author himself, racked by illness and yet highly sensitized, becomes a theatrically exuberant event.
For the first time, Audi will collaborate with the visual inspiration of multi-talent Jonathan Meese, who has repeatedly dealt with the subject of Nietzsche before. His opulent and sometimes rigorously structured associations with Nietzsche make him a natural choice for this work. The composer develops a plot without wanting to follow a linear narrative structure - instead, he unfolds a kaleidoscope of images - an almost Dionysian action.

Klaus Bertisch

31 July 19:30

03 August 20:00

07 August 20:00

13 August 20:00

19 August 20:00

21 August 20:00

24 August 20:00

Azione teatrale per musica in three acts

Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Dieter Dorn, Stage Director
Jürgen Rose, Set Design and Costume Design
Tobias Löffler, Lighting
Hans-Joachim Ruckhäberle, Dramaturgy
Thomas Lang, Chorus Director

CAST

Elisabeth Kulman, Orfeo
Genia Kühmeier, Euridice
Christiane Karg, Amore
Vienna Philharmonic
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

In the beginning, the beloved dies: grief, lamenting, pain, loneliness and defiance; in the end, the victory of love and music. Orpheus does not accept Eurydice's death, he demands her return; if need be, he will bring her back from the underworld by force. The interference of the gods in the shape of Eros is not only an act of mercy. Orpheus is taken at his word: he is allowed to descend to the netherworld and retrieve his beloved wife, on the condition that he does not look at her and gives her no explanation. With the help of the power of music, Orpheus overcomes all obstacles, except for Eurydice's resistance: she wants him to look at her and desire her, consciously. He cannot resist her, and she dies a second time. Orpheus wants to die with her. However, there is another life for the lovers, this time as a gift from the gods.
Gluck's azione teatrale per musica, premiered in 1762 in Vienna, irritates its audiences with its subjectivity and intimacy. The figures are taken from mythology; but everything that happens is motivated by love alone. There is no empire to be saved, no children, no social obligations, but no guilt either. Thus, the happy ending - often considered conventional - is actually a celebration of the absoluteness of individual feeling and its triumph over the absolutism of any power.

Hans-Joachim Ruckhäberle

01 August 20:00

04 August 20:00

06 August 20:00

11 August 20:00

14 August 20:00

17 August 20:00

· Alban Berg . Lulu Felsenreitschule

Text by Alban Berg after Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora

Marc Albrecht, Conductor
Vera Nemirova, Stage Director
Daniel Richter, Set Design
Klaus Noack, Costume Design
Sonja Nemirova, Dramaturgical assistance

CAST

Patricia Petibon, Lulu
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Countess Geschwitz
Cora Burggraaf, A Theatrical Dresser
Cora Burggraaf, A High-School Boy
Pavol Breslik, The Painter
Pavol Breslik, A Negro
Michael Volle, Dr. Schön, editor-in-chief
Michael Volle, Jack
Michael Schade, Alwa, Dr. Schön's son, a composer
Franz Grundheber, Schigolch, an old man
Thomas J. Mayer, An Animal Tamer
Thomas J. Mayer, An Athlete
Heinz Zednik, The Prince
Heinz Zednik, The Manservant
Vienna Philharmonic

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Now that I have an overview, I am even more convinced of the profound morality of the piece, Lulu's rise and fall balance each other; in the middle, there is the great turn-around, until - like Don Juan - the Devil gets her. I say - like Don Juan - on purpose, not in order to compare myself - how could I!!! - with Mozart, but only to point out that the two figures, Lulu and Don Juan, are equal." (Alban Berg, 1934)

Wedekind's Lulu tragedies deal with the absolute power of Eros in mythical forcefulness. In 1928, Berg decided that they would be the basis of his second opera, which he had completed in short score in 1934; by the time of his death, however, he had only been able to orchestrate the first two acts fully.
Lulu is surrounded by the seductive aura of the natural, the untamed. A "nightwalker of love" (Karl Kraus) without memories who moves outside of conventional morals, she seems to exist for her male surroundings only as a projection, as an image, and yet evades any attempt at control: Lulu unnerves men, scoffs at their claims of possession, disrupts their bourgeois order. And thus, they take revenge: Lulu's social ascent is followed by her humiliation as part of the "retaliation of a male world that dares to avenge its own guilt" (Kraus).

08 August 20:00

12 August 20:30

16 August 20:00

20 August 20:00

23 August 20:00

28 August 20:00

Opera in one act - Text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocles' tragedy

Daniele Gatti, Conductor
Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Stage Director
Raimund Bauer, Set Design
Andrea Schmidt-Futterer, Costume Design
Duane Schuler, Lighting
Denni Sayers, Choreography
Thomas Lang, Chorus Master

CAST

Waltraud Meier, Klytämnestra
Iréne Theorin, Elektra, her daughter
Eva-Maria Westbroek, Chrysothemis, her daughter
Robert Gambill, Aegisth
René Pape, Orest
Oliver Zwarg, Orest's Tutor
Benjamin Hulett, A Young Servant
Josef Stangl, An Old Servant
Orla Boylan, The Overseer
Maria Radner, First Maidservant
Stephanie Atanasov, Second Maidservant
Eva Leitner, Fourth Maidservant
Arina Holecek, A Confidante
Barbara Reiter, A Trainbearer
Vienna Philharmonic
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Electra is obsessed with the idea of avenging her father's murder. Agamemnon is the center and demon of her idée fixe. Electra lives exclusively in the past; as a figure, she is only existent in combination with this idea. Through this absolute fixation upon the idea, the person becomes a marionette - a cruel act of self-abandonment and loss of identity.
The opera takes place in a space occupied primarily by Electra, a command center of her obsession. She has almost walled herself up in the fortress of her thoughts, a shell that is a refuge and a trap at the same time. The piece is about the visualization of inner states, about existential emergencies and forced situations.
In the end, what remains is self-deception and self-destruction, culminating in a dance of death. The drama ends with the same basic problems as it began. Only the roles have been changed. There is no way out of the cycle of crime. The curse remains. The Erinyes are just outside the door.

Nikolaus Lehnhoff

10 August 19:30

13 August 15:00

16 August 19:30

18 August 19:30

20 August 19:30

23 August 19:30

24 August 15:00

27 August 19:30

30 August 19:30

· Charles Gounod . Roméo et Juliette Felsenreitschule

Opera in five acts

Text by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Bartlett Sher, Stage Director
Michael Yeargan, Set Design
Catherine Zuber, Costume Design
Jennifer Tipton, Lighting
Chase Brock, Choreography
B. H. Barry, Battle scenes
Thomas Lang, Chorus Master

CAST

Anna Netrebko, Juliette
Nino Machaidze (18.08, 24.08, 27.08, 30.08), Juliette
Piotr Beczala, Roméo
Stephen Costello (18.08, 24.08), Roméo
Mikhail Petrenko, Frère Laurent
Dimitry Ivashchenko (27.08, 30.08), Frère Laurent
Darren Jeffery, Le Comte Capulet
Russell Braun, Mercutio, friend to Roméo
Cora Burggraaf, Stéphano, page to Roméo
Michael Spyres, Tybalt, nephew of Capulet
Susanne Resmark, Gertrude, nurse to Juliet
David Soar, Le Duc de Vérone
Mathias Hausmann, Le Comte Paris
Robert Murray, Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Shakespeare's extraordinary play, Romeo and Juliet, was a radical text in the Renaissance. In it, he took new ideas, popular in court among the neo-Platonists, and dramatized them. The neo-Platonists found a path to engage the world through individual love. Shakespeare expanded this to social tragedy, where love heals the public strife of two warring families.
Gounod, writing 250 years later, is interested in something completely different. Influenced by Wagner (particularly Tristan), he explores how individual love offers access to the divine, something blasphemous to Shakespeare's audience. His opera is an emotional dreamscape of the play, and placing it amidst the templar walls of the Felsenreitschule creates the opportunity to experience the ecstasy of falling in love through Gounod's music. But he pushes this choice further toward the radical implications of two young people finding meaning not only in love, but in death as a path to the divine.
That experience and its emotional implications for the society in which they live is the dreamlike journey of Gounod's opera.

Bartlett Sher

09 August 19:30

14 August 19:30

· Vincenzo Bellini . Norma Grosses Festspielhaus

Tragedia lirica in two acts

Text by Felice Romani after Alexandre Soumet's tragedy Norma, ou L'Infanticide

Friedrich Haider, Conductor

CAST

Edita Gruberova, Norma, druidess, daughter of Oroveso
Joyce DiDonato, Adalgisa, young priestess at the temple of Irminsul
Marcello Giordani, Pollione, Roman proconsul in Gaul
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Oroveso, head of the Druids
Ezgi Kutlu, Clotilde, Norma's confidante
Camerata Salzburg
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Is not all that we feel there true and great?" the young Richard Wagner asked in a review of Norma (1831), which he did not hesitate to compare to the tragedies of Antiquity. The central figure in Bellini's opera is a druid priestess: among the Gauls, Norma occupies a position of power, but inwardly, she finds no peace. As the secret lover of Pollione, proconsul of the Roman occupying forces and the father of her two children, she has broken her vows and violated her patriotic duties. However, even more than by her conscience, she is tortured by the fact that Pollione has turned away from her. When Norma learns of Pollione's liaison with the novice Adalgisa, the conflict escalates.
For their "most perfect tragedy" (Schopenhauer), Bellini and his librettist used a contemporary French drama, but they gave Soumet's Norma, who resembles the figure of Medea, greater humanity and dignity: thus, she combines pride and vulnerability, passion and tenderness, a thirst for revenge and compassion. Bellini expresses all these facets in his controlled and intensively expressive melodies: invariably inspired by the dramatic and poetic content of the text, song unfolds here with the power of an incantation.

PERFORMANCE DATES FOR 2010

CONCERT PERFORMANCE DETAILS

26 July 20:00

27 July 20:00

· Vienna Philharmonic 1 · 50 Jahre Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Dorothea Röschmann, Elina Garanca, Klaus-Florian Vogt, René Pape, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus , Daniel Barenboim
Works by Ludwig v. Beethoven, Pierre Boulez, Anton Bruckner

08 August 11:00

10 August 21:00

· Vienna Philharmonic 2 Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Riccardo Chailly
Works by Wolfgang Rihm, Anton Bruckner

15 August 11:00

16 August 11:00

17 August 11:00

· Vienna Philharmonic 3 Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Gérard Depardieu, Olga Borodina, Ildar Abdrazakov, Salzburg Festival Children's Choir, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus , Riccardo Muti
Works by Sergey Prokofiev

21 August 11:00

22 August 11:00

· Vienna Philharmonic 4 Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Tzimon Barto, Christoph Eschenbach
Works by Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Rihm

27 August 11:00

28 August 11:00

· Vienna Philharmonic 5 Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Bernard Haitink
Works by Anton Bruckner

29 August 20:00

· Berlin Philharmonic Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Karita Mattila, Sir Simon Rattle
Works by Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Arnold SPchoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg

06 August 20:00

· World Orchestra for Peace Grosses Festspielhaus
· Performers: Camilla Tilling, World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev
Works by Gustav Mahler

12 August 20:00

· ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien Felsenreitschule

· Performers: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Maria Bengtsson, Elin Rombo, N.N., Gilles Ragon, Alain Vernhes, Salzburg Festival Children's Choir, Wiener Singverein, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Bertrand de Billy
Works by Arthur Honegger

26 August 20:00

· Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra Grosses Festspielhaus
· Performers: Hilary Hahn, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Herbert Blomstedt
Works by Johannes Brahms, Paul Hindemith

27 August 20:00

· Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Ferruccio Furlanetto, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Mariss Jansons
Works by Béla Bartók, Modest Musorgsky, Igor Stravinsky

28 August 20:30

· Nina Stemme · Swedish Chamber Orchestra Haus für Mozart

· Performers: Nina Stemme, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Works by Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz, Richard Wagner, Ludwig v. Beethoven

28 July 20:00

· Camerata Salzburg 1 Haus für Mozart

· Performers: Ivo Pogorelich, Philippe Herreweghe
Works by Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin

31 July 20:00

· Camerata Salzburg 2 Haus für Mozart

· Performers: Ivo Pogorelich, Philippe Herreweghe
Works by Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin

29 July 20:00

· Kontinent Rihm 1 Felsenreitschule

· Performers: Lucy Crowe, Jean-Luc Ballestra, Dörte Lyssewski, Martin Wuttke, Martin Grubinger & The Percussive Planet Ensemble, Salzburger Bachchor, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ingo Metzmacher
Works by Darius Milhaud, Wolfgang Rihm

02 August 20:30

· Kontinent Rihm 2 Kollegienkirche

Performers: The Hilliard Ensemble, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Sylvain Cambreling
Works by Carlo Gesualdo, Klaus Huber, Wolfgang Rihm

05 August 20:30

· Kontinent Rihm 3 Kollegienkirche

· Performers: Klangforum Wien, Emilio Pomárico
Works by John Dowland, Wolfgang Rihm, Anton Webern, Karlheinz Stockhausen

07 August 15:00

· Kontinent Rihm 4 Great Hall of the University

· Performers: Arditti Quartet
Works by Wolfgang Rihm

07 August 20:30

· Kontinent Rihm 5 Kollegienkirche

Performers: The Hilliard Ensemble, Arditti Quartet
Works by Wolfgang Rihm

08 August 11:00

10 August 21:00

· Kontinent Rihm 6 Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vienna Philharmonic, Riccardo Chailly
Works by Wolfgang Rihm, Anton Bruckner

09 August 20:30

· Kontinent Rihm 7 Kollegienkirche

· Performers: Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling
Works by Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Morton Feldman

10 August 20:00

11 August 20:30 ·

· Kontinent Rihm 8
· Ensemble Modern & Sasha Waltz & Guests Perner-Insel, Hallein

· Performers: Sasha Waltz, Martin Hauk, Beate Borrmann, Yoreme Waltz, Ensemble Modern, Franck Ollu
Works by Wolfgang Rihm

13 August 20:00

· Kontinent Rihm 9 Great Hall of the University

· Performers: Georg Nigl, Jean-Pierre Collot, trio recherche
Works by Wolfgang Rihm

21 August 11:00

22 August 11:00

· Kontinent Rihm 10 Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Tzimon Barto, Vienna Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach
Works by Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Rihm

03 August 19:30

· Brahms-Szenen 1 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Valery Afanassiev
Works by Johannes Brahms

04 August 19:30

· Brahms-Szenen 2 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Diana Damrau, Michael Nagyy, Valery Afanassiev, Markus Hinterhäuser, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Thomas Hengelbrock, Zehetmair Quartett
Works by Johannes Brahms, Dmitri Shostakovich

06 August 19:30

· Brahms-Szenen 3 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Quatuor Ysaÿe, Isabel Charisius, Valentin Erben
Works by Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg

08 August 19:30

· Brahms-Szenen 4 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Tabea Zimmermann, Angelika Kirchschlager, Alexander Lonquich
Works by Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Robert Schumann

10 August 19:30

· Brahms-Szenen 5 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Miklós Perényi, Jörg Widmann, András Schiff
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Jörg Widmann, Alexander Zemlinsky

12 August 19:30

· Brahms-Szenen 6 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Christian Tetzlaff, Martin Fröst, Clemens Hagen, Tabea Zimmermann, Leif Ove Andsnes
Works by Leo¨ Janácek, Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg

14 August 19:30

· Brahms-Szenen 7 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Christian Tetzlaff, Stefan Dohr, Alexander Lonquich
Works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, György Ligeti, Johannes Brahms

19 August 19:30

· Brahms-Szenen 8 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Hagen Quartett, Jörg Widmann
Works by Heinrich Isaac, Anton Webern, György Kurtág, Johannes Brahms

29 July 19:30

· Chamber Concert 1 · Martha Argerich I Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon, Géza Hosszu-Legocky, Lida Chen Argerich, Gautier Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, Nelson Goerner .Works by Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Sergey Rakhmaninov, Dmitry Shostakovich and others

01 August 19:30

· Chamber Concert 2 · Martha Argerich II Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Martha Argerich, Dora Schwarzberg, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, Mischa Maisky, Walter Delahunt, Karin Merle, Lilya Zilberstein, Géza Hosszu-Legocky & The 5 DeViLs
Works by Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvorák, Leo¨ Janácek, Dmitry Shostakovich and others, as well as Géza Hosszu-Legocky & The 5 DeViLs

13 August 20:30

· Chamber Concert 3 Haus für Mozart

· Performers: Gidon Kremer, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, Khatia Buniatishvili
Works by Robert Schumann, Victor Kissine, Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky

16 August 19:30

· Chamber Concert 4 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit, Christian Poltéra
Works by Ludwig v. Beethoven

24 August 19:30

· Chamber Concert 5 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Hagen Quartett, Krystian Zimerman
Works by Grazyna Bacewicz, Leo¨ Janácek, Robert Schumann

30 July 21:00

· Recital 1 · Evgeny Kissin 1 Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Evenly Kissin
Works by Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann

02 August 21:00

· Recital 2 · Evgeny Kissin II Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Evgeny Kissin
Works by Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin

05 August 21:00

· Recital 3 Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Grigory Sokolov
Works by Robert Schumann
Complete program to be announced later

11 August 21:00

· Recital 4 · Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: András Schiff
Works by Ludwig v. Beethoven, Robert Schumann

17 August 21:30

· Recital 5 · Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Gidon Kremer, Valery Afanassiev
Works by Johannes Brahms, Dmitri Shostakovich, Valentin Silvestrov

18 August 20:00

· Recital 6 · Grosses Festspielhaus

· Performers: Krystian Zimerman
Works by Frédéric Chopin

22 August 20:30

· Recital 7 · Grosses Festspielhaus Grosses Festspielhaus
· Performers: Maurizio Pollini
Works by Frédéric Chopin

31 July 11:00

01 August 11:00

· Mozart Matinee 1 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Lisa Batiashvili, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
Works by Wolfgang A. Mozart

07 August 11:00

08 August 11:00

· Mozart Matinee 2 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Julia Lezhneva, Francesco Corti, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Marc Minkowski
Works by Wolfgang A. Mozart

14 August 11:00

15 August 11:00

· Mozart Matinee 3 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Diana Damrau, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Jérémie Rhorer
Works by Wolfgang A. Mozart

21 August 11:00

22 August 11:00

· Mozart Matinee 4 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Fazil Say, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
Works by Wolfgang A. Mozart

28 August 11:00

29 August 11:00

· Mozart Matinee 5 Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
· Performers: Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Ton Koopman
Works by Wolfgang A. Mozart, Leopold Mozart

11 August 20:00

· Sacred Concert Stiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal
·St. Peter Abbey Church

· Performers: Malin Hartelius, Christiane Karg, N.N., Klemens Sander, Michaela Aigner, Salzburger Bachchor, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Jérémie Rhorer
Works by Wolfgang A. Mozart

 
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