Salzburg

Metamorphosis as method: from a Vivaldi pasticcio to a drag revue

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2025 [9] – Vivaldi/ Ovid, Hotel Metamorphosis: Soloists, Il Canto di Orfeo chorus, Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco / Gianluca Capuano (conductor). Recorded live (directed by Tiziano Mancini) at the Haus für Mozart, Salzburg, June 2025 and viewed on arte.tv.

United StatesUnited States Various, Orgy & Bess: Deep Throats and High Notes: Soloists, Band, Heartbeat Opera. Judson Memorial Church, New York, 31.10.2025. (ES-S)

John Taylor Ward, Angela Yam, Jamilyn Manning, Bernard Holcomb and Sishel Claverie in Orgy and Bess © Russ Rowland

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Estimable Salzburg Festival production and performance of Eötvös’s Three Sisters

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2025 [7] – Eötvös, Three Sisters: Soloists, Actors, Klangforum Wien / Maxime Pascal, Alphonse Cemin (conductors). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 24.8.2025. (MB)

Salzburg Festival 2025 –  Three Sisters © SF/Monika Rittershaus

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Another splendidly Boulezian programme at the Salzburg Festival 

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Salzburg Festival 2025 [6] – Ravel, Boulez, Varèse: Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Klangforum Wien / Sylvain Cambreling (conductor). Haus für Mozart, Salzburg, 23.8.2025. (MB)

Klangforum Wien, soprano Sarah Aristidou and conductor Sylvain Cambreling © SF/Jan Friese

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Unforgettable performances of two key Boulez works at the Salzburg Festival

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2025 [4] – Debussy, Boulez, and Stravinsky: Tamara Stefanovich, Nenad Lečić (pianos), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), SWR Experimentalstudio, Michael Acker, Maurice Oeser (sound direction). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 20.8.2025. (MB)

Pianist Tamara Stefanovich © SF/Marco Borrelli

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An incisive celebration of the Boulez centenary at the Salzburg Festival

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2025 [3] – Nono, Boulez, and Stockhausen, ‘A Pierre’: Julie Brunet-Jailly (flute), Alphonse Cemin (piano), Augustin Muller (IRCAM electronics), Sylvain Cadars (IRCAM sound diffusion), Le Balcon / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 19.8.2025. (MB)

Flautist Julie Brunet-Jailly © SF/Marco Borrelli

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Musically all-encompassing performance of Erwartung at the Salzburg Festival

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival [2] – Schoenberg, Webern, and Mahler, One Morning Turns Into an Eternity: Aušrinė Stundytė (soprano), Fleur Barron (contralto), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 18.8.2025. (MB)

One Morning Turns Into an Eternity (contralto Fleur Barron) at the Salzburg Festival 2025 © Ruth Walz

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