Salzburg Mozart Week online worldwide
Mozart's 265th birthday will be celebrated by the world's greatest Mozart festival and intendant Rolando Villazón with a condensed programme and top- class performers. Selected concerts and the world première of 94 seconds – a new Mozart will be streamed online worldwide.
International streaming offers to mark Mozart's 265th birthday • A special musical experience: a hitherto unknown Mozart piece; the opening concert; the Mozartiade; Maestro Daniel Barenboim, Cecilia Bartoli and the Vienna Philharmonic; and the legendary duo Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim – available in many countries.
The digital 2021 Mozart Week combines everything the world's greatest Mozart festival has stood for since 1956. Large-scale orchestral concerts, select chamber-music gems and special concert formats with top Mozart performers who illuminate the great composer's manifold cosmos. Regrettably, due to the continuing corona pandemic it will not be possible to perform before live audiences; so Mozart Week, now reduced to five days, will be held online only, from 27 January, Mozart's birthday. “With the utmost care, we have further condensed the adapted programme and distilled it into a Mozart Week typical in essence and quality of the exceptional nature of this Mozart festival“, says intendant Rolando Villazón. The compact programme breathes the spirit of the original festival motto, showing Mozart as a true musico drammatico in the minor-key works which, like the arias and lieder, tell of great emotions, of love and passion. “I am very much looking forward to presenting the highlights of this year's Mozart Week to Mozart-lovers the world over, through our co-operation with Unitel and Austrian Broadcasting”, says Villazòn.
In the German-speaking world, the digital Mozart Week will be held on the streaming platform myfidelio.at in close collaboration with ORF and Unitel. All Mozart Week concerts will be broadcast, with two premières each day, and are available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The opening concert of the Mozart Week on arte concert and Letters and Music on 3sat Selected events can also be watched free of charge in many parts of Europe: the opening concert with Keri-Lynn Wilson, Xavier de Maistre, Mathilde Calderini, Giulia Semenzato, Rolando Villazón, Luca Pisaroni and the Mozarteum Orchestra on 27 January at 8 pm on arte concert, and Letters and Music with Emmanuel Tjeknavorian playing Mozart's Costa violin, Marie Sophie Hauzel at Mozart's Walter piano and Adele Neuhauser, on 6 February at 8.15 pm on 3sat.
Worldwide Mozart Week broadcasts on medici TV and Mezzo TV Via the international streaming services medici.tv and Mezzo TV, the Mozart Week will reach a worldwide audience. Please find out which platforms are available in your location. medici tv Medici.tv is the leading international classical streaming platform, available in 180 countries in English and French on all screens: PC, Mac, mobiles, tablets (iOs and Android) and television
via AirPlay or Chromecast. The Mozart Week programmes are not available via medici.tv in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Korea and Japan. Details of broadcasts on medici.tv:
27 January/9 pm CET 94 seconds – a new Mozart Seong-Jin Cho, piano; Ulrich Leisinger, conversation partner, Rolando Villazón, moderator
29 January/9 pm CET Mozartiade Sylvia Schwartz, soprano, Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano, Mauro Peter, tenor Elena Bashkirova, piano
31 January/9 pm CET Vienna Philharmonic Vienna Philharmonic Daniel Barenboim, conductor and piano Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
Mezzo TV Since 1996, Mezzo has become the worldwide reference for classical music, jazz and dance on television, and is now broadcasting in over 80 countries. Details of broadcasts on Mezzo TV:
31 January/9pm CET Vienna Philharmonic Vienna Philharmonic Daniel Barenboim, conductor and piano Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
May 2021 – date to be announced 94 seconds – a new Mozart Seong-Jin Cho, piano; Ulrich Leisinger, conversation partner, Rolando Villazón, moderator
May 2021 - date to be announced Piano 4 hands Martha Argerich, piano Daniel Barenboim, piano
Further platforms In Korea, selected programmes are available on LGU+, in Israel on Aria on demand. An overview of the worldwide broadcasts is also available at mozartwoche.at/en.
94 seconds – a new Mozart with Seong-Jin Cho on Deutsche Grammophon and DG Stage The 2021 digital Mozart Week presents an exceptional discovery: 94 seconds – a new Mozart: a hitherto unknown piece by Mozart will be performed in public for the first time, in the Mozarteum concert hall. The Allegro in D major K626b/16 will be introduced by Ulrich Leisinger, Director of Research at the Mozarteum Foundation, and performed by South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho. Intendant Rolando Villazón will moderate this special première on 27 January, Mozart's 265th birthday. In collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon, DG Stage will stream this concert, and a shortened version of the world première will be available on 27 January at 7 pm on the DG YouTube channel as well as on the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation's channels.
Information about the concerts: Mozart Week
Biography of Rolando Villazón Rolando Villazón has made a name for himself as one of today’s most popular artists, a status that he owes not only to his thrilling appearances on the world’s most prestigious stages but also to his unique versatility. In addition to his stage career, he is also active as a director, writer, radio and television personality and artistic director of the Salzburg Mozart Week Festival. He was born in Mexico City in 1972 and initially studied music at his country’s National Conservatory before joining the young artists’ programmes at the opera houses in Pittsburgh and San Francisco. Internationally, he first came to prominence in 1999 when he won multiple prizes at that year’s Operalia Competition and within months had made several successful debuts at some of the world’s leading opera houses, performances that cemented his status as an extraordinarily talented artist. Since then he has appeared in every major opera house. Rolando Villazón made his directorial debut in Lyons in 2011 and since then has directed productions at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and the Vienna Volksoper. Since 2007 he has recorded exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon, selling more than two million records and winning numerous awards. France – the country where he has chosen to live – has appointed him a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is also an ambassador for Red Noses Clowndoctors International and a member of the Collège de Pataphysique in Paris. To date he has published three novels: Malabares (2013, also available in French as Jongleries) and Lebenskünstler (2017); his third novel “Amadeus auf dem Fahrrad” was published in June 2020 and spent several weeks on the bestseller list of Der Spiegel magazine. In 2017 he was named Mozart Ambassador of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. He has been artistic director of the Mozart Week Festival since 2019 and will continue to run the world’s most important Mozart Festival until 2023.
The Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation For more than two and a half centuries Wolfgang Amadé Mozart has fascinated people all over the world through his music and his personality. The Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation is the world’s leading institution aimed at preserving and disseminating this priceless cultural legacy. It also seeks to make the world aware of Mozart’s manifold facets by opening up access to his music and to introduce his life and personality to everyone, regardless of their age.
A non-profit-making organization, the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation engages with the figure of Mozart as both man and artist and to this end has established initiatives in three key areas, organizing concerts, running Mozart museums and pursuing research, in that way building a bridge between the preservation of a tradition and the promotion of contemporary culture. Its aim is to open up different perspectives and encourage new ideas in our engagement with the composer. The Mozart Week Festival was established in 1956 with the goal of celebrating Mozart’s birthday each January.
The Society of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation was established as the International Mozarteum Foundation in 1880 by the townspeople of Salzburg, although its origins date back to the Cathedral Music Society and Mozarteum that was set up in 1841. Mozart’s widow Constanze and their two sons Carl Thomas and Franz Xaver Wolfgang donated much of their estate to the Society. As a result, the Mozarteum Foundation owns the world’s largest collection of original letters, portraits and instruments once in the possession of the Mozart family.
For further information, please contact Christine Forstner, Press and Publicity, Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation, Schwarzstraße 26, A-5020 Salzburg, tel.: +43 662 889 4025; mobile: +43 650 889 4025; [email protected], www.mozarteum.at