Salzburg 2020 Reduced (see summer festivals)

The Salzburg Festival of 2020 has been announced.  This year is the 100 anniversary of the festival, so there will be much celebrating.



OPER

• Richard Strauss ELEKTRA


• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DON GIOVANNI


• Giacomo Puccini TOSCA (Netrebko, Eyvazov, Tézier)


• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE


• Luigi Nono INTOLLERANZA 1960


• Gaetano Donizetti DON PASQUALE (Cecilia Bartoli)


• Modest Mussorgski BORIS GODUNOW (Ildar Abdrazakov) 


• Giuseppe Verdi I VESPRI SICILIANI (Plácido Domingo)


• Morton Feldman NEITHER


• Händel / Mozart DER MESSIAS (Mozart's arrangement of Handel's Messiah orchestrated for an orchestra of his time and translated into German.  The San Francisco Symphony performed this when I was in the chorus.  At Salzburg it will be staged.)

There will be a distinguished selection of plays in German.

KONZERT

• OUVERTURE SPIRITUELLE Pax (Britten War Requiem begins a series of concerts.)


• WIENER PHILHARMONIKER (Five concerts, including Wesendonck Lieder w. Garanca).


• ORCHESTER ZU GAST


• BEETHOVEN-ZYKLUS (8 concerts of piano sonatas.)


• Still life — Zeit mit FELDMAN


• MOMENTS MUSICAUX (5 concerts with surprise contents)


• KAMMERKONZERTE (7 concerts, 3 Beethoven)


• LIEDERABENDE (Christian Gerhaher, Matthias Goerne, Benjamin Bernheim, Sonya Yoncheva)


• SOLISTENKONZERTE (11 distinguished concerts.)


• KIRCHENKONZERT


• MOZART-MATINEEN MOZARTEUMORCHESTER (5 concerts)


• CAMERATA SALZBURG


• HERBERT VON KARAJAN YOUNG CONDUCTORS AWARD


• YOUNG SINGERS PROJECT


• SONDERKONZERTE

Time to completely overdo.  This is the festival to top all festivals, even their own.  They are proud to proclaim the presence of Placido Domingo.