It was recently confirmed that there will be a completely new production of “Everyman” at the Salzburg Festival in 2024. It now appears that a new protagonist has been found in the Viennese Philipp Hochmair. Canadian Robert Carsen will probably take the director’s position.
Canadian director Robert Carsen (69) will take on the new production of ‘Everyman’ during the Salzburg Festival in 2024. In Salzburg he recently celebrated a great success at the 2021 Pentecost Festival with Handel’s oratorio “Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno”. The production was taken over by the Salzburg Festival. The title role of Everyman should involve a reunion with Philipp Hochmair.
Hochmair replaced Tobias Moretti, who was ill, at very short notice in five appearances in 2018 and was praised for a brilliant performance. He has been familiar with the Everyman material since 2013 at the latest. His rock version “Everyman (reloaded)” was made for the Young Directors Project in Salzburg. With the band “Die Elektrohand Gottes” he has already performed in this version in many places, in which he embodies almost all the roles himself – even in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
Director Robert Carsen staged ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ by Richard Strauss at the Salzburg Festival in 2004, but has also made his mark with several productions at the Theater an der Wien – for example with a triumphant ‘Platee’ by Jean-Philippe Rameau in 2014 or three years later with Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck”. In 2005 he staged “Manon Lescaut” at the Vienna State Opera and the Verdi opera “Troubadour” on the lake stage in Bregenz.
Source: Krone
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