Salzburg Festival

When: Jul - Aug 2009

Where: Salzburg

The Salzburg Festival is one of the cultural highlights of the year. Alongside the regular residency of the Vienna Philharmonic, musicians and ensembles of the highest calibre fill the beautiful Alpine city with music and drama.

Salzburg’s annual artistic summer shindig was started by a visionary trio of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt and Richard Strauss, and to this day an al fresco production of Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann (Everyman) takes place in the Domplatz.

The drama programme includes productions of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and, Perner-Insel in Hallein, the three-part Sad Face / Happy Face by Jan Lauwers & Needcompany and a version of Schiller’s The Robbers. There are two plays with a connection to Britain’s National Theatre: the German language première of Simon Stephens’ latest play for the National, Harper Reagan and Vanessa Redgrave in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, directed by David Hare.

The crowded music programme includes the usual repeat concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic, this year led by Boulez, Nott, Muti, Jansons and Salonen; Rattle and his Berliner Philharmoniker; Welser-Möst and his Cleveland Orchestra; and a week’s project by the Simon Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela under charisimatic Gustavo Dudamel, let alone the Camerata Salzburg’s own series of concerts.

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