Cecilia Bartoli has had a busy week. Opening her 2014 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, singing in it, celebrating her birthday and, finally, revealing her plans for the 2015 festival. All whilst dressed as a milkmaid. Pretty impressive.
This year's festival centres on Rossini. Next year's is elevated to the divine with a 'gods' theme.
La Ceci herself takes the leading role in the festival's two operas: Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, directed by her beloved Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, and a concert performance of Handel's Semele. During the daylight hours there are two vocal recitals and a chamber concert. For the first time the Hamburg ballet visit the Whitsun Festival, where they will present John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other festival firsts are a reading, a puppet show and cinema screenings to complement the musical programme. Four packed days end with a gala concert featuring Anna Netrebko, Vesselina Kasarova, Juan Diego Florez and Christopher Maltman alongside La Ceci, with arias by Purcell, Gluck, Haydn and Offenbach. Ticket prices are unfortunately as steep as ever, ranging from 12 to 430 euros.
The 2015 programme in full:
IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE - Christoph Willibald Gluck
Staged performance
c. Diego Fasolis, d. Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier
Cecilia Bartoli, Christoper Maltman, Topi Lehtipuu, Michael Kraus, Rebeca Olvera
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano, I Barocchisti
22. May, 19:30, Haus für Mozart
25. May, 15:00, Haus für Mozart
IPHIGENIE AUF TAURIS - play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reading
23. May, 11:00, Stiftung Mozarteum – Großer Saal
SEMELE - Georg Friedrich Handel
Concert performance
c.Diego Fasolis, Cecilia Bartoli, Liliana Nikiteanu, Birgit Remmert, Rebeca Olvera,
Charles Workman, Andreas Scholl, Peter Kálmán
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano, I Barocchisti
23. May, 19:30, Haus für Mozart
MATINEE
Selection by Claudio Monteverdi from Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and L’Orfeo. Lieder by Franz Schubert
Christoph und Julian Prégardien
Jos van Immerseel, Musiker von Anima Eterna Brugge
24. May, 11:00, Stiftung Mozarteum – Großer Saal
ARIENKONZERT
Arias by Handel
Philippe Jaroussky, Nathalie Stutzmann, Orfeo 55
24. May, 15:00, Haus für Mozart
EIN SOMMERNACHTSTRAUM -
Ballet by John Neumeier after William Shakespeare
Music Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, György Ligeti
John Neumeier, Jürgen Rose
HAMBURG BALLETT
Simon Hewett, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg
24. May, 20:00, Großes Festspielhaus
LA LIRA D’ORFEO
Works by Hieronymus Kapsberger, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Bernardo Gianoncelli, Alessandro Piccinini, Francesco da Milano, Gian Paolo Foscarini, Luys de Narváez, Margaret Board, Santiago de Murcia, Gaspar Sanz
Rolf Lislevand, Marco Ambrosini, Thor Harald Johnsen, David Mayoral, Bjorn Kjellemyr, Andre Lislevand
25. May, 11:00, Stiftung Mozarteum – Großer Saal
FESTKONZERT
From Dido und Aeneas by Henry Purcell, L’Orfeo by Christoph Willibald Gluck, L’anima del filosofo by Joseph Haydn, La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach
Anna Netrebko, Cecilia Bartoli, Vesselina Kasarova, Juan Diego Flórez,
Christopher Maltman u.a.
Louis Langrée, Salzburger Bachchor, Walter Zeh, Camerata Salzburg
25. May, 19:30, Großes Festspielhaus
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