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2017 Season Issue 1 Inside Nestlé Children’s Young Camps Conductors Award

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CHAIRMAN’S LETTER Envisioning a future connected through the arts We can all leave a lasting legacy that Perhaps there are many reasons, but we are contributes to building a viable future certainly more accessible and connected in for the performing arts. The Salzburg ways that were only dreamed in the time of Festival promotes a vision that extends . globally, far beyond Salzburg. The Taking a moment to pause in a city such founders had an idea to establish a as Salzburg for an opera, concert or play festival away from big cities and day- gives us an opportunity to become more to-day life; they envisioned a place reflective in our perspective of life. of pilgrimage and renewal. As Max We witness the best and share this same Reinhardt said, “The restlessness of our bond of appreciation with the many guests time, the difficulties caused by daily of the Festival who visit each year. The arts events take on such dimensions in the balance modern society more than ever. Th e S a l z b u r g Fe st i va l i s at big city, oppress us and burden us to Supporting them is an achievement that we t h e e p i c e n t e r w h e r e a r ts a n d such an extent that in the as members, donors and friends can assume s o c i e t y i n t e r s e c t t o e n r i c h evenings we cannot free with real pride. o u r h e a r ts a n d e n l i g h t e n o u r ourselves of the worries of “Salzburg is the m i n d s . A l l o f i t i s d o n e w i t h the day as we would wish. Warm regards, heart of the heart t h e h o p e t h at t h e a r ts m a k e The play as such can neither of Europe. It lies at the o u r w o r l d m o r e m e a n i n g f u l . be presented nor received. Th e Fe st va l’s h i st o r y In the big city we cannot centre between South i s r i c h w i t h t r a d i t i o n a n d celebrate true festivities and North, between a s p i r i t f o r i n n o vat i o n with the heart.” mountains and plains, Gerry Andlinger t h at u n i t e s o v e r 250,0 0 0 His statement compels me between Switzerland and g u e sts f r o m 81 co u n t r i e s to think about its relevance the Slavic countries”, e v e r y y e a r t o pa r ta k e i n t h i s in our world today when the said the famous Austrian c e l e b r at i o n o f l i f e . restlessness is not only in poet and Festival founder C o m e J o i n u s ! cities but also within us. .

SiemenS FESTIVAL NIGHTS From July 27 To auguST 30, 2017 in The kapiTelplaTz, Salzburg

© Siemens Photo credits: Patrick McMullan Society Gala at the St. Regis New York

© Salzburger Festspiele / Franz Neumayr

© Tourismus Salzburg GmbH, Günter Breitegger An Epicenter of the Extraordinary A festival as a locus of encounter apart from Art has at all times been concerned with the to Aribert Reimann’s , the stage plays – among everyday life and removed from the distractions of great questions of human exisence and the them Gerhart Hauptmann’s Rose Bernd and Frank the metropolis means leaving behind the ordinary omnipotence of death. We hear this Wedekind’s – as well as many of the works in and entering into a different connection of being. our concert programme offer profound reflections A festival is intended to create stunning artistic on the strategies of power, the resultant constellations that promise not merely diversion ‘To awaken the ear, the destruction of human relationships and the loss of and spectacle but also throw down a challenge, eye, human thinking, one’s place in the fabric of society. inviting the visitor to reflect. The Salzburg Festival intelligence’ – this maxim ‘To awaken the ear, the eye, human thinking, aims to be an epicentre of the extraordinary. As coined by Luigi Nono, a true intelligence’ – this maxim coined by Luigi Nono, a the new team of directors, we are setting out to eyewitness, true eyewitness, ‘earwitness’ and witness of shape the coming years of our festival with this conscience, has again accompanied us in our mission in mind – so simple and yet so difficult to planning of the Festival. The programme has arisen fulfil. in Monteverdi just as much as in Mozart, out of the many lively, fruitful and inspiring We – Helga Rabl-Stadler and Markus Shostakovich or Gérard Grisey. We read it in discussions we had with our wonderful performing Hinterhäuser – have plenty of Salzburg Festival the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Frank artists. experience under our belts, having been reunited Wedekind. And it will be there to be But to make a festival really succeed, a on the board of directors after a hiatus of five years. experienced in the stagings of by Shirin counterpart that is keen to engage is equally We are being supported in our endeavours by Neshat and by . With important: ‘because it is not only on the stage, but Bettina Hering and Florian Wiegand. Bettina Hering these two productions we will be reviving a also among the audi-ence that the very best must is the new head of theatre, and is hoping to excite great tradition of the Salzburg Festival and be, if the perfect miracle is to come about of which people’s curiosity with plays that have not been giving the fine arts significant scope in the theatre is capable on successful evenings’, as Max staged at the Festival before and with actors of summer of 2017. Reinhardt so aptly put it. exceptional calibre. Florian Wiegand has created We will investigate the close interaction It is in this spirit that we invite you to join us in an imaginative programme of concerts at the between art and society by dedicating making 2017 a very special year for the Salzburg Salzburg Festival over the past five years and in the our-selves to scrutinizing the diverse Festival. team of directors now has a new partner with whom phenomenology of power. All of our , to share ideas and discussions about musical from Mozart’s Helga Rabl-Stadler, Markus Hinterhäuser questions. Translated by Sophie Kidd Salzburg Festival Society Gala at the St. Regis New York, November 2015 Salzburg Festival Society Gala at the St. Regis New York Photo credits: Da Ping Luo

We have established the Thank you for contributing to our “SFS Meeting Points” in success. We greatly value your collaboration with the Goldener support. Enclosed is an annual Hirsch and the Hotel Sacher and membership form to renew your we will continue to explore commitment or join us for the first collaborative partnerships to time. Please note, the priority bring more programming to you. ticket order deadline for SFS We are committed to connecting Members is January 6, 2017, and our members with international prime seats go quickly. guests of the Salzburg Festival. You ensure the performing arts In this newsletter, you will remain a legacy for the generations LETTER FROM THE find mention of just a small to come. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR fraction of the events, Warm wishes, performances and programs available to you. We are proud Dear SFS Members and Friends of this extensive offering that of the Salzburg Festival, awaits you in 2017 and in the years ahead as Markus Joseph Bartning The Salzburg Festival is unique! Hinterhäuser shares his outlook. Again this year a Festival guest He asks together with Dr. Rabl- can select from over 190 Stadler, “What should an arts performances in 41 days. Among festival be?” these performances are many I would say the Salzburg opportunities to share with Festival is many things to the INTRODUCING OUR over 250,000 guests it serves friends, other patrons and NEW BOARD MEMBER celebrate with the artists who annually, and it will continue to enrich you. As a member of the transcend and shape ideas that Salzburg Festival Society you are inspire us to celebrate with the given special access to heighten extraordinary artists presented on your Salzburg Festival experience, the many stages of the Festival. and we curate opportunities to Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler, President Dorothée Volpini de Maestri was connect with artists and other of the Salzburg Festival, has said born in Vienna, raised in the American and international the Salzburg Festival was southern region of , in patrons. Additionally, there are intended as a project against Carinthia on Lake Millstatt and many opportunities for children, “the crisis, the crisis of meaning, now a resident of Salzburg. She teens and young adults, so they the loss of values, the crisis of completed a classical, language too can actively participate and identity of the individual human oriented education in Vienna and join you. The next generation being as well as of entire spent her formative years in begins at any stage of life when nations”. This “crisis” is with us London, Paris and Geneva, later we engage someone new to share but we have the power to let the moving to the United States. In the wonder of the performing arts. arts reveal to us their greatness. addition to her time in Salzburg, Our programs during the Dorothée lives in New York and summer have increased with the the Salzburg Festival dedicates her time to the Arts and hope to engage you. Members was intended as a their preservation. Salzburg has receive invitations to interval project against “the crisis, been part of her upbringing with receptions throughout the season, the crisis of meaning, her earliest memories listening to a they are invited to attend the the loss of values, the Karl Waggerl reading during Advent Artists in Conversation Series crisis of identity of the with her grandmother as an eight moderated by Jay Nordlinger individual human being as year old and a memorable presenting the greatest and rising well as of entire nations” Jedermann performance with Curd stars of the season, along with -Dr. Rabl-Stadler Juergens and . We are other social opportunities. thrilled to have her join us! Markus Hinterhäuser On October 1, 2016, Markus and at internationally renowned Hinterhäuser became the festivals. As a co-founder of Artistic Director of the Zeitfluss, a series of events taking Salzburg Festival and his place from 1993 to 2001 at the contract will run for five years, Salzburg Festival, and as Artistic until September 30, 2021. Director of the project Zeit-Zone Markus Hinterhäuser was at the Wiener Festwochen, he born in 1959 in La Spezia, won international acclaim as a Italy. He studied at the cultural manager. Beginning in Music Academy in Vienna, at October 2006, Hinterhäuser was the Mozarteum in Salzburg and responsible for the Salzburg at various master courses. As a Festival’s concert program, where pianist, Markus Hinterhäuser he became the interim Artistic has performed at the world’s Director in 2011. He is back and © Salzburger Festspiele / Franz Neumayr most important concert halls ready to set his artisitic vision. A beautiful and moving moment

“This is a very beautiful up to and preparing the season’s and moving moment for me,” first opera production, as well as a Hinterhäuser commented upon stronger integration of the drama his appointment: “It is a great department in terms of content and and important mission for me, dramaturgy, are further issues. because I am very attached to “My handwriting is known in the Festival and my life has been Salzburg, and I will not change it influenced profoundly by Salzburg fundamentally,” said Hinterhäuser. and the Festival.” Regarding the Landeshauptmann Dr. Wilfried conceptual pillars of his tenure Haslauer, a member of the as Artistic Director, Hinterhäuser Supervisory Board, stated “We want explained that on the one hand, he a long-term perspective and a stable considers the profound exploration artistic path of high quality into the of Mozart’s oeuvre very important. future.” This, however, also demands the Markus Hinterhäuser will certainly courage to blaze new trails. Further lead the artistic path of the highest development and concentration of quality!

the Ouverture spirituelle, leading © Luigi Caputo A stable artistic path of high quality

"The Vienna Philharmonic are the During the 2017 season they will artistic heart of the Salzburg play the following operas:

Festival. Without them, there would © Salzburger Festspiele/Anne Zeuner Lady Macbeth von Mzensk, Aida, be a festival in Salzburg, but it Wozzeck and Lear. would not be the Salzburger Festspiele” highlights president In 2017, they will perform Helga Rabl-Stadler of the important orchestral concerts conducted by: role the Vienna Philharmonic , Herbert fulfills. Blomstedt, Bernard Haitink, Andris Nelsons and . In 2017, they will celebrate their 175th jubilee! Contract extension – Vienna Philharmonic ·Andeas Großbauer, Helga Rabl-Stadler, The 2017 season awaits you! Harald Krumböck, Markus Hinterhäuser On a Romantic Dream Journey of Self-Discovery An interview with

You have set new standards for the Salzburg Whitsun Festival over the past five years. Looking back, how do you judge these first few years of your artistic directorship? First, I feel deep gratitude that we encountered such a great deal of interest, enthusiasm and support. In a way we turned the Whitsun edition of the festival upside down, without knowing what the reaction would be. The resulting success then really knocked us over. The enthusiastic response has allowed me to continue dreaming up projects in the best possible environment there is for a festival! I’m particularly proud that a committed team, effectively a Whitsun family, has come together. Every year I become more and more aware of how big the support is and how my input and our success would be curbed if it weren’t for the amazing dedication of all my colleagues and the fantastic audience. From an artistic perspective I’m delighted by the high standard we have achieved and been able to maintain. I’m pleased that we have enriched the festival with art forms like classical ballet, a new repertoire, and young artists. And it was important for me to bring a female touch to the program. You have extended your contract to 2021. How will the program move forwards as you begin your second five-year The idea of a festival at Whitsunday, term? or Pentecost originated with writer I will endeavour, with my fellow artists, to continue pursuing what isn’t so easy to accomplish: variety, with a unifying theme at Hugo von Hofmannsthal, a founder of the each festival. Besides this, I enjoy it when, say, the repertoire or the Salzburg Festival, and was established in style of a performance provokes a little controversy. And I want to 1973, when conductor Herbert von present the audience with regular surprises and new questions. Karajan initiated a series of concerts" Baroque should follow great romantic works, and the comic – perhaps an operetta by Offenbach? – should follow the tragic. Artists who are already known quantities at the Whitsun Festival should also encounter new artistic colleagues, like . Where exactly will the journey lead us in 2017? Over the stormy sea to Scotland. But neither the popular tourist region nor the Scotland characterized by heated debates and the search for a modern identity. Instead, a mythical, romantic, enchant-ed world. I’m thinking here as a central European, back to the 18th and 19th centuries. Through the prism of poets like Ariosto and Ossian I will embark on a dream journey – just like Alice when she climbs through the looking glass. Journeying through enchanted landscapes ultimately brings us closer above all to our own self. The Whitsun Festival in 2017 The Whistun Festival takes place from June 2nd to June 5th 2017. Helga Rabl-Stadler says: “Our Festival at this early time of the year has a special charm. Salzburg is the romantic baroque town you expect and the flourishing nature creates a special ambiance.” This time Cecilia Bartoli will sing one of her beloved "pants role". She is the male hero . However, guests that will not be able to come to Salzburg in June will have the opportunity to see this marvelous opera from Georg Friedrich Händel also in August. There will be five performances between August 16th and 28th. Furthermore in 2017, the Whitsun Festival has a special attraction: 40 years ago – Whitsun 1967 – Anne Sophie Mutter was invited by to perform at the Grosse Festspielhaus. This was the starting point for her world career. Two Gala Concerts will celebrate that jubilee: one on June 5th and another on August 26th, 2017.

The 2017 Whitsun Festival is from: June 2 - June 5, 2017 www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/whitsun © Uli Weber / Decca © Salzburger Festspiele / Andreas Kolarik Opera Camps for Children and Youth Children from the ages of 9 to 17 SFS Members do have some priority have an incredible opportunity to Why does theater so please inquire if interested. participate in the Salzburg Festival exist at all? “ Applications for the opera camps Opera Camps in cooperation with the can only be submitted using the online Vienna Philharmonic and Salzburg from Der Schauspieldirektor, application form. Written applications Foundation of the AAF. These are week an opera for children performed at the or applications made over the phone long camps offerred to children all will not be accepted. Salzburg Festival in 2017 over the world and housed in Schloss The participation fee includes: Arenberg which is just steps from the workshops, rehearsal visit, room and Salzburg Festival. board, leisure time activities. Children receive instruction from Scholarships are available for members of the Vienna Philharmonic participants with financial need. Orchestra in the areas of music, dance, Applications are due by: voice and set design, and become Friday, January 20, 2017 part of the creative process with other children and professionals that guide Please inquire for further details them. if interested in learning more about Children focus on a specific opera the music camps or any of the other from the 2017 season, and at the end youth programs offered at the Salzburg of the week, will reinterpret the opera Festival. and present it to the public. This program has become extremely Opera Camp details: sought after and is very successful For children aged 9 to 13 for cultivating a joy of AIDA-CAMP I and instilling the creative process in July 24 to July 30, 2017 children and young adults from around the world. AIDA-CAMP II The number of places for each July 30 to August 4, 2017 session is limited, and applicants are informed by the end of February 2017 For teenagers aged 14 to 17 if they have a place. WOZZECK-CAMP August 5 to August 11, 2017 © Salzburger Festspiele / Marco Borrelli Photo credits: © Salzburger Festspiele / Marco Borrelli

The Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award The Salzburg Festival has made it a The award winner will also have a CD Award Winner’s Concert with the priority to develop programs to produced from the concert and winner of the Young Conductors promote and help establish young promoted in the official marketing of Award 2016 is: artists on the world stage. Now in their the Festival. Saturday, 5 August 2017 – 8:00 pm 8th year, Nestlé and the Salzburg Conductor • Aziz Shokhakimov Festival have proven their Candidates between the ages of 21 to commitment to helping young 35 are eligible to apply and the Violoncello • Andrei Ioniță ORF conductors launch with a 15,000 Euro application deadline is: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien award. The award winner will be given February 1, 2017. in the additional support in their career development and have the special Award Concert Weekend For the application and more opportunity to conduct a concert Friday, 4 August 2017, 03:00 pm information: during the Salzburg Festival season. Saturday, 5 August 2017, 03:00 pm www.salzburgfestival.at Sunday, 6 August 2017, 03:00 pm Supporting Youth Initiatives to Help Artists and Audiences Thrive

A series of master classes are led by renowned Festival artists (with a schedule listed below). These have become valuable educational programs and make the YSP highly competitive.

The members of the Young Singers Project will be performing in the new production of the opera Der Schauspieldirektor for children, which has become a very popular series of performances during the Festival season. YSP Artists also appear in Festival productions during the season, and © Salzburger Festspiele / Matthias Baus participate in a final concert for the public.

Here is the schedule for the public Master Classes: The Young singer’s projeCt , Saturday 22 July, 3:00 pm , Sunday 6 August, 5:00 pm In 2008 the Salzburg Festival created the Young , Sunday 13 August, 3:00 pm Singers Project, a high-class platform to support and , Thursday 17 August, 3:00 pm nurture young vocalists. in the Große Universitätsaula Young singers are selected through international auditions, and participants of the scholarship receive the opportunity to work with Festival artists. A highlight of Distribution of free tickets starting on July 8, 2017 the Festival program will be their final concert on August at the SHOP · KARTEN/TICKETS of the Salzburg 26th at 7:30 PM at the Mozarteum. Festival at Hofstallgasse 1

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DIRECTORS: Mr. Gerhard Andlinger * Mr. Nabil Chartouni * Mrs. Alexandra Kahn Graubert Mrs. Alexandra Kauka Hamill Mrs. Isabelle Harnoncourt Mission Mrs. Marifé Hernandez * Mrs. Ines Kaldas Ms. Rita Z. Mehos Founded in 2005, the Mr. Christian Meissner Salzburg Festival Society* Mrs. Elisabeth Muhr * serves as the liaison between Dr. M. Lee Pearce the Salzburg Festival and its Mrs. Judith Pierpont American friends and patrons. Mrs. Isabella Ponta * It is dedicated to supporting Mrs. Peggy Weber-McDowell © Tourismus Salzburg the artists and productions of Ms. Dorothée Volpini de Maestri the Salzburg Festival, with a * Members of the Executive Committee primary interest in supporting American artists.

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oFFicerS: Thank you for helping us reach our goal Lorenzo Da Ponte left an incredible gerhard andlinger, chairman to support American Orchestras at the legacy to opera as Mozart's librettist for nabil charTouni, preSidenT Salzburg Festival. The Cleveland three of his most famous operas, later mariFé hernandez, TreaSurer Orchestra performed in 2016 and The becoming a naturalized U.S. Citizen. Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2015. In 2017, it will be the Pittsburgh Symphony Thank you to the Bank of America JoSeph barTning, execuTive direcTor Orchestra. Thank you US Trust Bank of Charitable Foundation for supporting email: [email protected] America Private Wealth Management for this great program. supporting our Annual SFS Gala, which proceeds go to support these initiatives. For more detailed information, visit: www.salzburgfestival.at