Whether one loves it or hates it, the summer Salzburg Festival remains one of the most important events in classical music. Ever since the hotly contested mandate of Gérard Mortier, the festival has opened up to artists and repertoire often neglected in the past. Ticket and hotel reservations are booked well in advance and are expensive.
Verdi's Don Carlo, Mozart's Don Giovanni, La Clemenza di Tito, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila and Strauss' Die Agyptische Helena are among the opera offerings.
Concerts and solo recitals include Berlin Philiharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Mariinsky-Kirov Orchester, St. Petersburg, Alfred Brendel, Vienna Philharmonic, Emerson String Quartet, Waltraud Meier, Evegeny Kissin, Thomas Hampson, Ramon Vargas, Shaham, Gil, Kent Nagano, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dresden Staatskapelle, Angela Gheorghui Maurizio Pollini, Ian Bostridge, Bo Skovhus, Cecilia Bartoli, Akademie für alte Musik, Berlin, Israel Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Arcadi Volodos, Murray Perahia, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti among others.
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