SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2020 CATALOGUE Photo: Tourismus Salzburg “Where the Will Is Awakened, Action Has Almost Been Accomplished” Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
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SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2020 CATALOGUE Photo: Tourismus Salzburg Tourismus Photo: “Where the will is awakened, action has almost been accomplished” Hugo von Hofmannsthal When the Salzburg Festival presented its 100-year anniversary season with more than 200 perfor- mances in 15 venues over 44 days in Salzburg, London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo and New York in November 2019, the preparations for this largest and most important classical music festival were already in full swing and the expectations for an extraordinary summer of music were enormous. Barely four months later, not only society faced one of the greatest challenges since the end of the Second World War, but also the Salzburg Festival. Founded in 1920 as a project in a time of greatest need against the crisis (World War I was followed by the Spanish Flu), the Festival courageously recalled their founding idea – art as “food” and meaning of life – and decided not to cancel the anniversary festival prematurely, but to wait for the development of the pandemic and not to make the decision until the end of May 2020, two months before the Festival began. The Festival came up in time with a security concept, which not only became the new standard but made it possible, also thanks to the Austrian approach of a gradual relaxation for the cultural sector, to present music, theatre, concerts and opera to an larger audience. With incredible 110 performances in 30 days at 8 venues, the Salzburg Festival finally became not only a triumph for the arts under completely different external conditions, but also the strongest, most vital and most essential signal for the music world around the globe. The artists created unforgettable and unusually touching experiences. In this catalogue we are proud to present to you their stunning achievements in the most extensive audio-visual recording project in the history of the Salzburg Festival. UNITEL would like to use this occasion to thank all artists, the Salzburg Festival as well as its project partners ORF, ARTE, ZDF, WDR, BR, RBB and ARTE Concert. SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE For the complete catalogue featuring more than 160 titles from the Salzburg Festival please visit www.unitel.de CONTACT US Unitel GmbH & Co. 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Asmik Grigorian Chrysothemis . Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Klytämnestra Derek Welton Orest . Michael Laurenz Aegisth . Tilmann Rönnebeck Orest’s tutor . Verity Wingate Trainbearer Valeriia Savinskaia Confidante . Matthäus Schmidlechner A young servant . Jens Larsen An old servant Sonja Šarić The overseer . Bonita Hyman, Katie Coventry, Deniz Uzun, Sinéad Campbell-Wallace, Natalia Tanasii Five Maidservants Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor . Ernst Raffelsberger Chorus Master Wiener Philharmoniker . Franz Welser-Möst Conductor Krzysztof Warlikowski Stage Director Video Director: Myriam Hoyer | Length: approx. 120' | Shot in UHD HDR | Cat. no. A 040 50132 6 OPERA Photos: Bernd Uhlig “Triumphant” The Times “Highlight of the centenary season” The Telegraph In its 100th anniversary edition, the Salzburg Festival celebrates Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Klytämnestra, Derek Welton as a real triumph with a mind-blowing new production of Elektra, Orest and Michael Laurenz as Aegisth complete an ensemble of one of the most famous masterpieces of opera history by the top-notch singers. The staging by Krzysztof Warlikowski of this two festival founders Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmanns- work about matricide, obsession, revenge and physical degrada- thal. The Lithuanian soprano Aušrinė Stundytė as vengeful and tion is a deep psychological study of a broken family. Franz Wels- traumatized Elektra turns the opening of the Festival into a real er-Möst, who just recently celebrated an overwhelming success knockout performance! Her sister Chrysothemis is sung by her with Strauss’ Salome in Salzburg brings his trademark flair to the compatriot Asmik Grigorian, who made her international break- pit where the brilliantly effervescent and then again heartrend- through as acclaimed Salome at the 2018 Salzburg Festival, and ingly gentle playing Wiener Philharmoniker create gloriously exul- whose performance once again draws the audience into spell. tant Strauss moments. 7 OPERA “Remarkably cohesive and so moving” The Times “This production of Così fan tutte will be long remembered. It is pure joy, a wonder, a celebration” FAZ WOLFGANG A. MOZART COSÌ FAN TUTTE Marianne Crebassa Dorabella . Elsa Dreisig Fiordiligi . Andrè Schuen Guglielmo . Bogdan Volkov Ferrando, Lea Desandre Despina . Johannes Maria Kränzle Don Alfonso Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor . Huw Rhys James Chorus Master Wiener Philharmoniker . Joana Mallwitz Conductor Christof Loy Stage Director Video Director: Michael Beyer | Length: approx. 145' | Shot in UHD HDR | Cat. no. A 040 50133 8 OPERA Photos: Monika Rittershaus, Bernd Uhlig At Salzburg Festival the new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte director Christof Loy. The celebrated stage director brings unex- is a magic moment in Mozart interpretation, a true feast for the pected psychological elements to his strikingly modern mise eyes and ears: A masterfully clever staging, a ravishingly young en scène which is coherent down to the smallest detail. On the cast and, with Joana Mallwitz, for the first time a woman stands simple black and white stage, the emotional tragedy takes its at the podium of the Wiener Philharmoniker for a staged opera course: The sisters Fiordiligi (sung by stunning French soprano production at the Festival. “The sovereignty and prudence with Elsa Dreisig) and Dorabella (beautifully presented by Marianne which conductor Joana Mallwitz steers her ensemble and the Crebassa) are subject of a bet made by their betrothed Ferrando Wiener Philharmoniker through Mozart’s musical cosmos is (exquisite and sunny voiced Bogdan Volkov) and Guglielmo (hot phenomenal“, praises BR Klassik, “the orchestra likes to be carried tempered Andrè Schuen) with Don Alfonso (surprisingly uncynical away by her, playing with enthusiasm and brilliance.“ For this Johannes Martin Kränzle): true faithfulness would not exist with shortened version of Mozart's masterpiece the young conductor women. In the end, Don Alfonso should be right and still, this joins forces with none other than the internationally renowned game causes deep wounds for all involved! 9 WIENER PHILHARMONIKER WITHOUT THE WIENER PHILHARMONIKER, THERE WOULD PERHAPS STILL