(SF, 10 July 2022) The Salzburg Festival is pleased to provide the following updates and cast changes:
Festival Opening Ceremony of the Salzburg Festival
Tuesday, 26 July, 11 am, Felsenreitschule
The musical programme of this year’s Opening Ceremony includes the following works:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich
Choral cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra MWV A 11 (composed 1831)
Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988)
3rd Movement from Konx-om-pax (composed 1968/69)
for chorus and orchestra
After the keynote address by Ilija Trojanow, entitled The Tone of War, the Keys of Peace:
Valentin Silvestrov (*1937)
Still Music
for string orchestra (composed 2002)
Valentin Silvestrov was born in Kyiv in 1937, had to flee Kyiv after Russia’s attacks on Ukraine, and is currently living in Berlin.
The Salzburg Festival has very deliberately chosen these three works, given Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Performers:
Bach Chorus Salzburg
Benjamin Hartmann Chorusmaster
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg
Duncan Ward Conductor
Participation in the Festival Opening Ceremony is only possible by invitation from the Government of the State of Salzburg.
The Ceremony will be broadcast live on ORF 2 and 3sat as well as onto the Siemens Festival Nights screen, starting at 11 am.
The following cast changes are hereby announced:
Ouverture spirituelle
Arthur Honegger Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher
Sunday, 24 July, 7 pm, Felsenreitschule
Irène Jacob and Jérôme Kircher will sing the title role resp. the role of Frère Dominique in Arthur Honegger‘s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher as part of the Ouverture spirituelle. Due to the pandemic-related postponement of cinema and TV productions, the performers originally announced, Isabelle Huppert and André Jung, had to cancel their participation in the performance on 24 July at the Felsenreitschule. André Jung’s appearances in the drama production Verrückt nach Trost are unaffected by this and will go ahead.
The Swiss-French actress Irène Jacob is renowned internationally for her leading roles in two films by Krzysztof Kieślowski, The Double Life of Veronique and Three Colours: Red. On the theatre stage, she has worked with Katie Mitchell, Irina Brook and Thomas Ostermeier. She already embodied the role of Jeanne d’Arc in a staged production in Palermo directed by Daniele Abbado. A native Parisian, actor Jérôme Kircher has appeared in numerous French film, television and theatre productions directed by such artists as Patrice Chéreau, Luc Bondy, Jean-Pierre Vincent, André Engel and Denis Podalydè.
https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/p/jeanne-darc-swr-symphonieorchester-pascal
Song Recitals
Song Recital Christian Gerhaher, Julia Kleiter – Ammiel Bushakevitz
Sunday, 1 August, 8:30 pm, Haus für Mozart
Unfortunately, illness has forced pianist Gerold Huber to cancel his participation in the song recital by Julia Kleiter and Christian Gerhaher. The pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz, born in Israel and raised in South Africa, has agreed to appear in this recital. Ammiel Bushakevitz, who makes his Festival debut with this concert, has worked with singers such as Teresa Berganza, Brigitte Fassbaender, Elly Ameling, Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, Thomas Quasthoff, Matthias Goerne and Robert Holl. As a soloist and song pianist, he has won numerous international competitions, including the international competition “Das Lied”, the International Schubert Competition, the International Johannes Brahms Competition, the Concours Léopold Bellan de Paris, the International Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart and the Concours de Mélodie de Montréal in Canada. He counts Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Helmut Deutsch, Alfred Brendel and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau among his teachers.
The Festival is pleased to announce the detailed programmes for the song recitals by Jonas Kaufmann and Diana Damrau:
Song Recital Jonas Kaufmann – Helmut Deutsch
Sunday, 7 August, 3:30 pm, Großes Festspielhaus
Programme:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Adelaide Op. 46
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Der Musensohn D 764
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges Op. 34/2
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Ich liebe dich Op. 5/3
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Widmung Op. 25/1
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Waldeseinsamkeit Op. 85/6
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Als die alte Mutter Op. 55/4
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Op. 6/6
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Allerseelen Op. 10/8
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
Verborgenheit
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942)
Selige Stunde Op. 10/2
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Vergiftet sind meine Lieder S. 289
Im Rhein, im schönen Strome S. 272/2
Freudvoll und leidvoll (2nd version) S. 280/2
Freudvoll und leidvoll (1st version) S. 280/1
O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst
Es war ein König in Thule S. 278/2
Die drei Zigeuner S. 320
Ihr Glocken von Marling Searle 328 – poem by Emil Kuh
Die Loreley S. 273/2
Performers:
Jonas Kaufmann Tenor
Helmut Deutsch Piano
https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/p/lied-recital-kaufmann-deutsch
Song Recital Diana Damrau – Xavier de Maistre
Tuesday, 23 August, 8 pm, Haus für Mozart
Programme:
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
An die Musik D 547
Auf dem Wasser zu singen D 774
Du bist die Ruh D 776
Ellens Gesang III “Hymne an die Jungfrau“ D 839
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Impromptu for harp Op. 86/6
En prière
Clair de lune Op. 46/2
Les berceaux Op. 23/1
Adieu aus Poème d’un jour Op. 21/3
Notre amour Op. 23/2
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Nuit d’étoiles
Fleurs des blés
Clair de lune from Fêtes galantes I
Mandoline
Beau soir
Clair de lune from the Suite bergamasque (arranged for solo harp)
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
Desdemona’s Willow Song “Assisa a’ piè d’un salice” from the Dramma per musica Otello
L’invito (Boléro) from Les Soirées musicales
La pastorella dell’Alpi (Tirolese) from Les Soirées musicales
L’esule from Péchés de vieillesse III (Morceaux réservés)
Aragonese from Péchés de vieillesse XI (Miscellanée de musique vocale)
Performers:
Diana Damrau Soprano
Xavier de Maistre Harp
https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/p/lied-recital-damrau-de-maistre