Press Release of the 2023 Salzburg Whitsun Festival
On 24 January, Individual Tickets go on sale for the
2023 Salzburg Whitsun Festival
(SF, 23 January 2023) From 26 to 29 May, Cecilia Bartoli presents her 12th season as Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.
This Whitsun, we embark upon a journey to the underworld. Cecilia Bartoli and her musical friends explore the myth of Orpheus, his moving song and playing, in works by Monteverdi, Gluck and Haydn.
“As a musician and singer, I firmly believe in the power of music and the human voice. Therefore, the Orpheus myth is naturally one of the ancient stories that fascinates me most. It heartens me when I read about the wondrous effect of Orpheus’ music: how it could pacify the most threatening enemies — even death — and how it could change lives in a way that would have been unthinkable if he had not desperately dared to challenge the world’s eternal laws,” thus Cecilia Bartoli, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, describes the programme she has conceived.
In May 2023, Martha Argerich, Andriana Chuchman, Carlotta Colombo, Anna Laudere, Lucía Martín-Cartón, Sara Mingardo, Madison Nonoa, Mélissa Petit, Sonya Yoncheva, Massimo Altieri, Daniel Barenboim, Gianluca Capuano, Franco Citterio, Renato Dolcini, the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, Thomas Hampson, Lang, Zubin Mehta, Maxim Mironov, Edvin Revazov, Marco Saccardin, Giovanni Schiavolin, Rolando Villazón, Salvo Vitale, Kazuki Yamada, the Bach Choir Salzburg, the Camerata Salzburg, Il canto di Orfeo, Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and many other artists will follow Cecilia Bartoli’s invitation to Salzburg. With a homage to Daniel Barenboim, she also pays reverence to once of her closest artistic friends and great mentors, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Cecilia Bartoli, Daniel Barenboim © SF/Marco Borrelli
Online sales: individual tickets for the Whitsun Festival can be booked directly online starting tomorrow, 24 January: www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/pfingsten
Please address purchase orders in writing to:
Salzburg Festival, Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz 11, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Telephone orders can be placed by calling +43-662-8045-500.
Our Ticket Office also sells tickets directly.
Ticket Office
11,091 tickets have been issued, ranging from € 10,- to € 395,-
SALZBURG WHITSUN FESTIVAL 2023
supported by Rolex
Friday, 26 May, 8 pm, and Sunday, 28 May, 8:30 pm
Haus für Mozart
OPERA, New Production
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK ORFEO ED EURIDICE
LE FESTE D’APOLLO – ATTO D’ORFEO
Gianluca Capuano · Christof Loy
Johannes Leiacker · Ursula Renzenbrink · Olaf Winter · Klaus Bertisch
Cecilia Bartoli · Mélissa Petit · Madison Nonoa
Dancers
Il canto di Orfeo
Les Musiciens du Prince — Monaco
Saturday, 27 May, 3 pm
Felsenreitschule
OPERA IN CONCERT
JOSEPH HAYDN L’ANIMA DEL FILOSOFO ossia ORFEO ED EURIDICE
Gianluca Capuano
Thomas Hampson · Cecilia Bartoli · Rolando Villazón · Mélissa Petit et al.
ll canto di Orfeo · Jacopo Facchini
Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco
Saturday, 27 May, 7:30 pm
Großes Festspielhaus
BALLET OPERA
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE
John Neumeier · Kazuki Yamada
Maxim Mironov · Edvin Revazov · Andriana Chuchman · Anna Laudere ·Lucía Martín-Cartón
Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier
Bach Choir Salzburg · Benjamin Hartmann
Camerata Salzburg
Guest Performance · A Co-Production of the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Los Angeles Opera and the Hamburg State Opera
Sunday, 28 May, 11 am
Haus für Mozart
PUPPET THEATRE
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI L’ORFEO
Gianluca Capuano · Franco Citterio and Giovanni Schiavolin
Renato Dolcini · Carlotta Colombo · Sara Mingardo ·
Marco Saccardin · Salvo Vitale · Massimo Altieri et al.
As well as puppeteers of the Puppet Ensemble Carlo Colla & Figli (Milan)
ll canto di Orfeo · Jacopo Facchini
Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco
Monday, 29 May, 3 pm
Haus für Mozart
SCHUBERTIADE
Songs, Chamber Music and Piano Music for Four Hands by FRANZ SCHUBERT
Cecilia Bartoli · Martha Argerich · Daniel Barenboim
7 pm | Großes Festspielhaus
BENEFIT GALA
HOMAGE TO DANIEL BARENBOIM
Zubin Mehta · Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Martha Argerich · Lang Lang · Sonya Yoncheva · Cecilia Bartoli · Plácido Domingo · Rolando Villazón
The net proceeds of the event will be donated to the Daniel Barenboim Foundation.
We thank the artists for foregoing their fees.