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| Salzburg – Hofstallgasse at Evening (Photograph: TSG Breitegger) |
For Markus Hinterhäuser, inventive director of the Salzburg Pageant, the principle theme of the 2025 Pageant (18 July to 31 August 2025) may be summed up in Mary, Queen of Scot’s motto ‘in my finish is my starting’. However for all Hinterhäuser’s admirably coherent programming, 2025 is more likely to be the yr that Dmitri Tcherniakov directed Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Ulrich Rasch directed Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. The opera choice is admirably catholic, there are additionally a brand new productions of Péter Eötvös’ Three Sisters and Schoenberg’s Erwartung together with a revival of Verdi’s Macbeth in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s manufacturing.
This can be Dmitri Tcherniakov’s debut on the Salzburg Pageant however he can be teaming up once more with conductor Emmanuelle Haim (conducting her personal period-instrument ensemble), the 2 of them having labored on Tcherniakov’s Gluck Iphigenia challenge at Aix-en-Provence this Summer season. In Giulio Cesare, the title function can be sung by Christophe Dumaux with Olga Kulchynska as Cleopatra, Lucile Richardot as Cornelia, countertenor Federico Fiori as Sesto and countertenor Yuriy Mynenko as Tolomeo. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see what model of the opera Tcherniakov and Haim provide you with (ie what cuts they implement) in addition to discovering out how Tcherniakov offers with the dramaturgy of opera seria. One factor, nevertheless, is for certain, it will not be boring and Dumaux has lengthy expertise within the function of Cesare, we noticed him approach again in 2011 at Royal Theatre at Versailles [see my review].
The opposite extremely anticipated occasion is undoubtedly Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda in a manufacturing directed and designed by the German theatre director Ulrich Rasche. Markus Hinterhäuser assures us that the manufacturing goes to be primarily based round monumental structure. Antonello Manacorda conducts, which suggests the music is in glorious fingers, with the Vienna Philharmonic within the pit. Lisette Oropesa sings the title function with mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey as Elisabetta, plus Dkhzod Davronov, Aleksei Kulagin and Thomas Lehman. Additionally participating can be dancers from SEAD – Salzburger Experimental Academy of Dance, and the choreographer is Paul Blackman.
Peter Sellars is directing Schoenberg’s Erwartung with designs by George Tsypin. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Vienna Philharmonic. Schoenberg’s opera is paired with Der Abschied, the ultimate motion of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Ausrine Stundyte sings Erwartung with Wiebke Lehmkul within the Mahler, although a part of me needs that they had discovered a dramatic soprano able to singing each roles! Remarkably the 2 works had been each written across the identical time (1908/9), and Sellars has a seductively coherent methodology for pairing the 2. We’re intrigued. Sellars, in fact, directed his personal iconic manufacturing of Handel’s Giulio Cesare again in 1990, set in modern Egypt with Cesar as a contemporary American president.
The younger Russian director, Evgeny Titov can be directing the brand new manufacturing of Péter Eötvös’ Three Sisters with Dennis Orellana, Cameron Shahbazi and Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen [whom we saw last year in the title role of Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, see my review].
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| Salzburg – Felsenreitschule (Photograph: SF_Andreas Kolarik) |
Revivals embrace Barry Kosky’s Vivaldi pasticcio, Hotal Metamorphosis with Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky and Lea Desandre, with Gianluca Capuano conducting, and Warlikowski’s manufacturing of Verdi’s Macbeth, performed by Philippe Jordan with Asmik Grigorian and Vladislav Sulimsky because the Macbeths.
Different operas embrace a semi-staging of Mozart’s Zaide with music from Davide Penitente and Thamos, directed by Raphael Pichon along with his ensemble Pygmaliion and Sabine Devieilhe as Zaide, and a semi-staging of Mozart’s Mitridate with Adam Fischer conducting the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg.
There may be additionally Michael Jarrell’s monodrama Kassandra and most curiously a live performance of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Macbeth with Vimbayi Kaziboni conducting Klangforum Wien and Cody Quattlebaum and Alice Rossi because the Macbeths. Different live performance performances embrace Giordano’s Andrea Chenier with Piotr Beczala within the title function, and Rameau’s Castor et Pollux with Teodor Currentzis directing Utopia choir and orchestra, so count on attention-grabbing fireworks. Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Story is being offered in collaboration with the Salzburger Marionettentheater, which guarantees to be actual enjoyable.
Notable live shows embrace Henze’s The Raft of the Medusa with Ingo Metzmacher conducting, Luigi Nono’s Io, frammento dal Prometeo, and 7 live shows dedicated to the music of Shostakovich from symphonies and concertos to piano sonatas and string quartets, plus Igor Levit and Lukas Sternath in a four-hand piano transcription of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. Equally there are 5 live shows exploring Pierre Boulez along with his music alongside that of his contemporaries like Stockhausen and Nono, and his influences.
Full particulars from the pageant web site.
