Later today, I shall head off to Gatwick, for a hideously early morning flight tomorrow morning to Salzburg. Herewith a taste of what I shall be reporting on from the Salzburg Festival:
5 August – Thomas Adès’s new
opera, The Exterminating Angel, ORF
SO, cond. Adès; dir. Tom Cairns. Giant cast including Amanda Echalaz, Audrey
Luna, Anne Sofie von Otter, Iestyn Davies, Ed Lyon, Thomas Allen, John
Tomlinson, Christine Rice, Sophie Bevan, et
al.
6 August – Così fan tutte, Mozarteum Orchestra, cond. Ottavio Dantone; dir.
Sven-Erik Bechtolf.
6 August – Natalia
Zagorinskaja/Klangforum Wien/Sylvain Cambreling: works by Cerha, Kurtág (Messages of the late Miss R.V. Troussova),
and Webern.
7 August – Elbenita
Kajtazi/Camerata Salzburg/Alexander Prior: works by Nørgard, Mozart, Sibelius,
Prokofiev
7 August – Matthias Goerne/VPO/Zubin
Mehta: works by Pärt, Mahler, and Bruckner
8 August – Die Liebe der Danae, VPO, cond. Franz Welser-Möst; dir. Alvis
Hermanis; cast headed by Krassimira Stoyanova and Tomasz Konieczny
9 August – Matthias Goerne/Yuja Wang – Brahms, Die schöne Magelone
10 August – West-Eastern Divan
Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim: Mozart Symphonies nos 39-41
11 August – Martha Argerich/West-Eastern
Divan Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim: works by Widmann, Liszt (Piano Concerto
no.1), and Wagner
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