Blog entries
18
MAY
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
17:58 h;
published in: General
“The Festival owes Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau moments of glory celebrated equally by our audiences and the press” – thus Helga Rabl-Stadler, the Festival’s President, expressed her mourning of the wonderful musician’s passing.In Salzburg, Fischer-Dieskau was among those artists which gave the Festival its outstanding international reputation. He appeared at the Salzburg Festival no less than 123 times: 67 times in operas, in 50 recitals, three times as a conductor and three times as a narrator.
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18
MAY
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
10:55 h;
published in: Drama, General
The man of the theater Wolfgang Wiens died this past Wednesday in Hamburg. Most recently, he was working with Andrea Breth on Kleist’s Prinz Friedrich von Homburg for the Salzburg Festival. Wolfgang Wiens was considered one of the leading dramaturges in German-language theater, who held positions at almost all the renowned theaters and enjoyed close artistic partnerships with theater stars like Robert Wilson, Andrea Breth and Jürgen Flimm. Furthermore, Wolfgang Wiens was also a successful translator.
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15
MAY
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
17:00 h;
published in: Drama
On Meine Bienen. Eine Schneise, a piece that transcends all genres, by Händl Klaus with Musicbanda Franui
On a sunny summer day, just as a funeral was taking place in Innervillgraten in Eastern Tyrol, the beekeeper’s son Andreas Schett let a swarm of bees escape. The bees, which the boy had been supposed to watch, did not leave their hive for a nearby stone-pine or spruce, but set off in the direction of the parking lot, where the local company of marksmen was just paying homage to the dear departed. It was hot. Sweat was running down the faces and into the collars of the marksmen, buttoned tightly into their uniforms.
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11
MAY
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
11:26 h;
published in: Drama
The drama program of the summer of 2012 transforms the Perner-Insel into a place of international encounters. Several productions will be shown this year in a foreign language, two of them are by British stage director Irina Brook: the guest performances of La Tempête in French, and Peer Gynt, produced especially for the Festival, in English. Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director of Drama, describes how Brook manages to ignite the spark of enthusiasm regardless of any language barriers. The fact that both performances will have German subtitles provides additional assurance for all theater-goers at home in German.
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7
MAY
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
08:38 h;
published in: Whitsun
Under the title "Cleopatra hollywoodiana", a film marathon takes place from May 19 to 28 in cooperation with Salzburg’s center for film culture, DAS KINO. Accompanying the opera action in the Festival district, DAS KINO will screen a selection of the most fascinating Cleopatra films made between 1912 and 2002, reflecting the general theme of this year’s Whitsun Festival.
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4
MAY
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
16:24 h;
published in: Whitsun
Jules Massenet – author of Le Roi de Lahore (Paris, Opéra 1877), of Hérodiade (1881) and Manon (Paris, Opéra-Comique, 1884), of Le Cid (Paris, Opéra, 1885) and Esclarmonde (Paris, Opéra, 1889) as well as Werther (Vienna, Court Opera, 1892) – was able to claim the reputation of being France’s most frequently performed opera composer for several decades.
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3
MAY
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
12:02 h;
published in: Drama
“I am quite convinced that if I admire and love my actors, they will be convincing on stage. After all, that is my task: to make these people glow.” The artist Irina Brook was born into a theatrical family. As the daughter of the stage director Peter Brook and the actress Natasha Parry, she has been in contact with theater all her life, and is at home on stages on both sides of the Atlantic. She has enjoyed her greatest success in France, although her native language is English. For Irina Brook, this switching between languages, cultures and theatrical forms seems to be as natural as breathing. For the Salzburg Festival, she is currently preparing Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. Peter Arp visited Irina Brook and her actors at a workshop in Paris.
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30
APR
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
07:53 h;
published in: Concert
The winner of the 2012 “Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award”, held this year for the third time, is Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. 26-year-old Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla from Lithuania convinced the international jury chaired by Ingo Metzmacher at the Award Concert Weekend, when she performed at the Felsenreitschule with the Camerata Salzburg. “It was a very close call. In the end, greater determination and clarity was the crucial factor,” said Metzmacher.
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23
APR
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
17:30 h;
published in: Drama
With Meine Bienen. Eine Schneise, the award-winning Austrian writer Händl Klaus has written a work for the 2012 Salzburg Festival which will have its world premiere at the Landestheater on August 23. However, it has not remained a “normal” play. The East Tyrolean Musicbanda Franui, which has won acclaim for its reinterpretations of songs by Schubert, Brahms and Mahler, has adopted the piece and will transform Händl Klaus’ play about bees into a work of musical theater.
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19
APR
2012
by
FESTSPIELKIEBITZ
17:00 h;
published in: Concert
Last but not least, we would like to draw your attention and curiosity to the remaining finalist, Jamie Phillips. You can see him work with the Mozarteum Orchestra and soloist Ingolf Wunder on April 28, 2012 at 7:30 pm, also at the Felsenreitschule.
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