Today, Friday, the program of the next Salzburger Festspiele will be presented. So far ahead: the public can look forward to a challenging festival – and big names.
As always, a big secret was kept about the festival program until the very end. Today’s presentation follows months of work and fine-tuning of the operas, concerts and theater performances. Artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser has once again succeeded in developing a time-sensitive concept. Before the program is officially presented today, some of the most important key points were leaked on Thursday evening:
The public will not have to do without Teodor Currentzis in the coming year. The Greek-Russian conductor will take on a work by Henry Purcell next season. More precisely, a “semi-opera”, i.e. a spoken play with a lot of background music, entitled “The Indian Queen”.
And a reunion with an old acquaintance is also on the program: Martin Kušej, drama director of the Salzburger Festspiele from 2004 to 2006 and currently head of the Burgtheater, is celebrating his comeback. For the 2023 festival, he will stage a new production of Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”. Another opera highlight awaits the audience with “Macbeth”, which kills through power and domination. Franz Welser-Möst will conduct the Verdi Opera musically.
The balance of power, on the other hand, is reversed by opera star Cecila Bartoli. She takes on the role of Orfeo in “Orfeo ed Euridice”. A praiseworthy idea from the festival side to break away from rigid gender-specific assignments – and thus appeal to a new audience if necessary.
Intendant Hinterhäuser also shows guts outside the opera area. With the promise of the Russian-American journalist and writer Masha Gessen, Vladimir Putin will be ruthlessly discussed next summer. Her book The Man Without a Face: Vladimir Putin. A revelation’, says Gessen. The 55-year-old, who advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, among other things, eventually made a name for herself with accurate analyzes of anti-democratic and authoritarian ideologies and regimes.
Ex-Jedermann Tobias Moretti has arrived in exile. Together with Edith Clever, he presents the correspondence between the co-founder of the festival Max Reinhardt, who once fled to the US, and his wife Helene Thimig.
Source: Krone
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