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- An opera about jealousy and duplicity among the elite classes of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The highlight of the 2008 Salzburg Festival. The greatest opera of Charles Gounod with the voices of Villazón and Machaidze.
- 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.
- God sends Death to summon the rich bon viveur Jedermann who is then abandoned by his friends, his wealth and his lover.
- 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 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).
- Mozart's classic opera about Prince Tamino and Papageno's quest and trials, staged by Otto Schenck for the 1964 Salzburg Festival and filmed live.
- 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.
- Death is instructed by God to summon the rich Jedermann, who is eventually abandoned by his friends, his wealth and his lover.
- Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducts the Vienna State Opera Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra performing Mozart's famous opera.