New productions of Mieczys艂aw' Weinberg鈥檚 鈥淒er Idiot鈥� and Sergei Prokofiev鈥檚 鈥淭he Gambler" will highlight next summer's Salzburg Festival.
The festival will include 172 performances from July 19 to Aug. 31 plus 33 youth programs, Markus Hinterh盲user, the artistic director since 2016, announced Wednesday.
There will be new stagings of Offenbach鈥檚 鈥淟es Contes d鈥橦offmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)鈥� and Mozart's 鈥淟a Clemenza di Tito鈥� along with a revival of Romeo Castellucci's 2021 staging of Mozart's 鈥淒on Giovanni.鈥�
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鈥淭he Idiot,鈥� based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky鈥檚 novel, premiered at Germany's National Theatre Mannheim in 2013. Mirga Gra啪inyt臈-Tyla will conduct a production directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski in the Felsenreitschule from Aug. 2-23.
"The Gambler鈥� features Asmik Grigorian and Violeta Urmana in a Peter Sellars production conducted by Timur Zangiev to be given in the Felsenreitschule from Aug. 12-28.
"La Clemenza di Tito鈥� will be performed in the Haus f眉r Mozart from Aug. 1-13 in a Robert Carsen staging starring Cecilia Bartoli and conducted by Gianluca Capuano that opens at the Whitsun Festival on May 19.
Benjamin Bernheim, Kathryn Lewek and Christian Van Horn star in "Hoffmann鈥� in a Mariame Cl茅ment production conducted by Marc Minkowski at the Grosses Festpielhaus from Aug. 13-30.
Among concert performances, Christian Thielemann will conduct Strauss' 鈥淐apriccio鈥� starring Elsa Dreisig and Bo Skovhus (July 26 to Aug. 4) and Bertrand de Billy will lead Ambroise Thomas' 鈥淗amlet鈥� with St茅phane Degout and Lisette Oropesa (Aug. 16 and 19).
Vienna Philharmonic concerts include Andris Nelsons leading Mahler's Ninth Symphony (Aug. 10-11), Riccardo Muti conducting Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (Aug. 15-17) and Gustavo Dudamel leading Strauss' 鈥淔our Last Songs鈥� with Grigorian (Aug. 24-25).
The Associated Press
