Salzburg standard. The biggest clamor will be over Don Giovanni, since Herbert von Karajan is scheduled to conduct (Au- gust 6, 10, 16, 19, 22, and 26). The cast vir- tually duplicates that of Karajan's splen- did Deutsche Grammophon recording, with Samuel Ramey in the title role, joined by Kathleen Battle, Anna Tomowa-Sin- tow, and Julia Varady. Riccardo Muti has the somewhat more difficult task of mak- ing hita out of La clemenza di Tito (July 27 and 30 and August 2, 7, 13, 21, and 28), although he can expect some help from Carol Vaness and Gosta Winbergh in two of the opera's leading roles. Regulars at the Metropolitan will feel right at home as James Levine conducts the Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production of Le nozze di Figaro, though the Salzburg cast lacks the flash of the one Levine assembled in New York (July 29 and August I, 9, 12, 18, and 23). Finally, veteran Horst Stein will be in the pit for Die Entfiihrung (August 4, 8, 11, 17, 27, and 30), with Inga Nielsen and Above: the approach to Wahnfried. Wagner's home in Bayreuth. Facing page: vintagea view of Salz- Kurt Rydl among the principals. burg's main cathedral. seen from near the Grosses Festspielhaus. In addition to this mini-Mozart cycle, the festival will offer Rossini's La Cene- is also the home of an extraordinary music Orchestra Sinfonica di Santa Cecilia (Sep- rentola and Schoenberg's Moses und Aron. festival. tember 16); and the Orchestre de Chambre The former will be conducted by Riccardo Turin's Set tembre Musica is a well- de Lausanne, with Vladimir Ashkenazy as Chailly and will feature Ann Murray, kept secret, but it isn't likely to stay that soloist and conductor (September 8). Re- Francisco Araiza, Walter Berry, and Gino way for long. The programming is excep- citals by Elisabeth SederstrOm (September Quilico (July 28 and 31 and August 5, 15, tionally imaginative and well balanced, 21), Alexis Weissenberg (September 11), 24, and 29). Moses und Aron will be con- with a healthy emphasis on music of the and Margaret Price (September 14) are ducted by Levine and staged by Ponnelle, 20th century but with plenty to attract lis- planned, as is a joint program featuring vi- with a cast that includes Theo Adam, teners interested in the Romantic and olinist Uto Ughi and pianist Martha Ar- Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig, and Philip Classical repertory. There are excellent of- gerich (September or9 12). Langridge (August 14, 20, and 25). The ferings of Baroque music as well. A dozen As in past years, the festival will ex- Vienna Philharmonic is in the pit for all of the city's churches play host to the cho- plore the music of leadinga contemporary opera performances. ral, chamber, and recital programs that composer in concerts and special presen- Among the other highlights of the grace the festival's calendar, while the tations. This year's focus is on Iannis Xen- Salzburg Festival will be visits by the Lon- larger spaces of the Radiotelevisione Itali- akis, and the tribute includes the festival's don Symphony Orchestra (with conduc- ana (RA!) Auditorium and the municipal closing concert, an all-Xenakis program tors Rafael Friihbeck de Burgos, Michael opera house, the venerable Teatro Regio, performed by the London Sinfonietta. Tilson Thomas, and Jeffrey Tate), the Ber- serve for symphonic programs. There are lin Philharmonic (two performances of even a few outdoor events—one of the he most impressive of all the Euro- Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, Kara- highlights of last summer's 10th-anniver- pean festivals—in terms of the sheer jan conducting), and the Concertgebouw sary festival was performancea of the Ber- number of performances it offers Orchestra (with Chailly conducting). The lioz Requiem in the Palazzo Reale, with each summer—has always been the resident Vienna Philharmonic will per- the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Salzburg Festival. The Vienna State form under the batons of Sir Georg Solti, Dimitri Kitaienko and augmented by Les TOpera is in residence from late July until Seiji Ozawa, and maestros Karajan, Muti, Cuivres Francais, all echoing magnificent- late August and performs nearly every and Stein. Alfred Brendel [HIGH FIDEL- ly in the night air. night. The Vienna Philharmonic, the Salz- ITY, May] will present a Schubert cycle This summer's festival (August 31- burg Mozarteum Orchestra, and a daz- consisting of four programs; the Alban September 24) opens with the Academy of zling array of visiting orchestras give con- Berg Quartet will offer completea cycle of Ancient Music and the London Sympho- certs, and there are eagerly awaited the Beethoven quartets; and lieder pro- ny Chorus in a performance of Beetho- recitals by some of the finest singers and grams will be sung by Hermann Prey, ven's Ninth under the baton of Christo- instrumentalists in the world. Christa Ludwig, Jessye Norman, and Lu- pher Hogwood. Other visitors include This summer, Mozart holds sway. cia Popp (with Levine at the piano for Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Four of his operas will be in the repertory: Ludwig and Norman). As usual, chamber Martin-in-the-Fields, who will perform Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail, Le nozze concerts, church concerts, Mozart mati- Beethoven piano concertos with Murray di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and La clemenza nees, and serenades have been pro- Perahia (September 15); Wolfgang Sawal- di Tito. They make for a very interesting grammed around some very appealing lisch and the Bavarian State Orchestra cross section of his mature work, and the repertory and performers, and the sched- (September 13); Georges Pretre and the casts are, for the most part, up to the high ule includes stage plays, ballet evenings,

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