Salzburg Festival 2024: returns and novelties
Prokofiev's 'The Player' premiered, directed by Peter Sellars and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Timur Zangiev
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With 172 events over 44 days and a budget of almost 70 million euros, the Salzburg Festival opens on 19 July. Confirmed at its helm until 2031 is the Italian-Austrian musician Markus Hinterhäuser, who has been in office since 2016 but has worked with the Salzburger Festspiele since 1993. The playbill that bears his signature is, as always, divided into opera, drama and concerts, and is enhanced by a special programme for young people and the 'Ouverture Spirituelle' series of events.
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.For the opera section, new productions include Prokofiev's 'The Player', based on the Dostoevsky text of the same name, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Timur Zangiev (12-28 August, Felsenreitschule).
Another first for the Festspiele and still Dostoevsky is 'The Idiot', by the Russian-Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. It is directed by Krysztof Warliowski, and the Wiener direction by Mirga Grazinyté-Tyla (2-23 August, Felsenreitschule).
"The Tales of Hoffmann" sees French director Mariame Clément in Salzburg for the first time (13-30 August, Grosses Festspielhaus). On the podium of the Vienna Philharmonic is Marc Minkowski.
New concert productions include 'Hamlet' by French composer Ambroise Thomas, with Bertrand de Billy and the Mozarteum orchestra, (16-19 August, Felsenreitschule) and 'Capriccio' by Richard Strauss with Christian Thielemann on the Wiener podium (26, 31 July and 4 August, Grosses Festspielhaus).
