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- La Traviata stands or falls on its lead singers and in Norah Amsellem and Rolando Villazon this 2005 Salzburg Festival performance has a pair whose electric interactions and brilliant singing are irresistible. If Amsellem can't quite provide the vocal bloom of the great Violettas of the past, hers is a lovely voice used with intelligence and dramatic intensity and she has the coloratura chops to deliver her Act I showpieces with flair. Villazon's tenor has ping on top, terrific color, and an impressive range of rubato, dynamic shadings, and interesting phrasing that makes Alfredo's music sound newly minted. The Germont is Thomas Hampson, no Verdi baritone but an astute singer and actor. Chorus and smaller roles are fine, the orchestra first-rate. Carlo Rizzi has odd notions about the music (usually too fast, sometimes way too slow) but this Traviata triumphs despite his conducting.
- Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous vocal and orchestral writing seethes and pulsates as Strauss conjures up the brutality of Herod's corrupt court.
- An opera about jealousy and duplicity among the elite classes of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
- A selfish hero regrets his apathetic rejection of a young woman's love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend.
- Salzburger Festspiele 2023: Giuseppe Verdis "Macbeth" ähnelt einer griechischen Tragödie und einem Thriller. Eine solche Oper verlangt außergewöhnliche Sängerdarsteller. In der Regie von Krzysztof Warlikowski und unter der musikalischen Leitung von Philippe Jordan verkörpern Asmik Grigorian und Vladislav Sulimsky ein Paar, das in Leidenschaft, Wahnsinn und Bluttaten vereint ist. Die erste Shakespeare-Adaption Giuseppe Verdis und die zehnte seiner insgesamt 26 Opern wurde 1847 in Florenz uraufgeführt, eine revidierte Fassung folgte 1865 in Paris. Verdi selbst war es eine seiner liebsten: "'Macbeth', den ich mehr liebe als meine anderen Opern ...", schrieb er kurz nach der Premiere an seinen Schwiegervater und Förderer Antonio Barezzi. Und es ist auch eine ungewöhnliche Oper: Ohne jede Liebeshandlung und mit einem in eine Nebenrolle gedrängten ersten Tenor. Im ersten Akt kehren die beiden schottischen Feldherren Macbeth und Banco aus einer siegreichen Schlacht zurück - und begegnen einer Schar von Hexen, die Macbeth die Krone von Schottland prophezeien. Seine Frau schürt daraufhin seinen Ehrgeiz und treibt ihn zum Morden an. Das "Melodramma" nimmt seinen Lauf. Durch die Prophezeiung der Hexen bemächtigt sich eine verbrecherische Denkweise mit einer von der Musik transportierten Unausweichlichkeit gänzlich des Verstandes von Macbeth - wie ein Fluss, der, einmal über die Ufer getreten, die Landschaft bis in die letzten Winkel überflutet und dem Untergang weiht. Regie führte Krzysztof Warlikowski, der viele bedeutende Produktionen nach Werken der griechischen Tragiker sowie Shakespeares geschaffen hat. Die musikalische Leitung hat Philippe Jordan. Vladislav Sulimsky und Asmik Grigorian verkörpern eines der faszinierendsten und furchterregendsten Paare der Operngeschichte: Macbeth und Lady Macbeth. Aufzeichnung vom 29. Juli 2023 bei den Salzburger Festspielen, Österreich.
- This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher's career, his advocacy of modern composers and the behind-the-scenes world of the symphony orchestra.
- A study of a man's physical and mental limitations. In the 24 quite harsh and grueling fragments of the unfinished drama, a body and a mind are tested as far as they can be pushed before their owner goes over the edge.
- This Bohème was the talk of the 2012 Salzburg Festival, the first production of Puccini's timeless masterpiece ever given there, in a bold and meticulously observed contemporary staging. A top-flight cast brings a thoroughly modern perspective to the chaotic lives and tragic loves of the young Bohemians, while conductor Daniele Gatti draws out every detail of this endlessly inventive score, with luxurious playing from the Wiener Philharmoniker. "Ms. Netrebko's Mimì emerged as thoroughly genuine and gorgeously sung. Mr. Beczala's Rodolfo was a perfect match" (The New York Times).
- Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducts the Vienna State Opera Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra performing Mozart's famous opera.
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- A spectacular production of Mozart's Davide penitente with dancing horses.
- A year has passed since the young Emperor went hunting with his falcon and captured the Peri, who was in the form of a gazelle, and married her. She is still all light, neither human nor a spirit, and if after three more days she casts no shadow, she must return to Keikobad and the Emperor will turn to stone. Since she cannot bear children unless she can find a human shadow, she asks the strange Nurse for help. The Nurse, who controls weird magics, brings her to the discontented household of Barak, a dyer, and his Wife. The Nurse attempts to purchase the Wife's shadow by promising her riches, an idyllic life, and a young lover. The Wife resists three times, and the Baraks are cast into an underground vault. The characters wander through eerily exotic settings while they recover their consciences, and all ends happily.
- God sends Death to summon the rich bon viveur Jedermann who is then abandoned by his friends, his wealth and his lover.
- Filmed over more than four weeks in the summer of 1987, ''Karajan in Salzburg'' follows the maestro as he rehearses performers for the annual festival, gives private lessons to young students and test-drives a new bright-red Porsche.
- Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail). Zubin Mehta leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in this historic live 1967 Salzburg Festival performance of Giorgio Strehler's legendary production. Cast features Ingeborg Hallstein, Reri Grist, Luigi Alva, Fernando Corena, Gerhard Unger, and actor Michael Heltau in the speaking role of Pasha Selim.