The demand for Anna Netrebko as Turandot and Christian Thielemann as conductors is so great that three opera performances are scheduled.
“Christian Thielemann and Peter Ruzicka present their last joint program”: This is how the Salzburg Easter Festival is titled for its program preview for the year 2021. What is usually only presented in Holy Week, the Easter Festival took place this year almost four weeks before the opening of this year’s Easter Festival.
The greatest attraction will be the opera: Anna Netrebko will sing the title role in Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot”. As in previous years, Christian Thielemann will conduct the Staatskapelle Dresden, which will travel to Salzburg for the Easter Festival. This is also announced as “Anna Netrebko’s role debut in the title role of ‘Turandot’ in a full scenic version of the opera”. And that closes an arc: In the last program, which Peter Ruzicka worked out as the director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, the same singer appears who appeared in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Salzburg Festival in 2002, at that time also under the direction of Peter Ruzicka , has made its international breakthrough.
Anna Netrebko’s husband Yusif Eyvazov will also be involved in “Turandot”, in the role of Calaf. He will debut this year at the Easter Festival, namely in the title role of “Don Carlo”. Golda Schultz will take on the role of Liù.
Yona Kim is hired as a director: she comes from South Korea, studied in Vienna and lives in Germany. “Her much-noticed productions were among other things on
the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Semperoper Dresden, the Munich Biennale and the Schwetzinger Festspiele “, it said in the communication of the Easter Festival on Monday. And it was published by the magazine” Opernwelt ” “Director of the Year 2017”.
Due to the expected high demand, a third performance is scheduled for March 31, 2021. The sponsors of the Easter Festival have a right of first refusal. The free sale will begin on November 1, 2020.
Sir Antonio Pappano will be a guest conductor in Salzburg at Easter 2021. Hilary Hahn will play Mozart’s A major concert in his concert. The violinist will also receive the Herbert von Karajan Prize in 2021. This is awarded to an outstanding artist of the young generation (2017: Daniil Trifonov, 2018: Sol Gabetta, 2020: Janine Jansen) or to a person who was particularly associated with Herbert von Karajan (2019: Mariss Jansons).
András Schiff will play and conduct in the “Concert for Salzburg”, which the Staatskapelle Dresden offers primarily for the Salzburg population. The program includes the piano concerto “D major Hob. XVIII: 11” by Joseph Haydn and
the “Piano Concerto in D minor KV 466” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s “Symphony No. 3”, the “Scottish”.
Pianist Denis Matsuev will perform under the baton of Christian Thielemann, with Edvard Grieg’s “Piano Concerto”. For most of this concert, Christian Thielemann will conduct Richard Strauss’ sound poem “Ein Heldenleben”.
The conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli will be discovered as a composer in one of the two chamber concerts. Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946-2001) was chief conductor of the Saxon State Orchestra in Dresden from 1992 until his death.
The press release also says: “As has been known for a long time, Peter Ruzicka will resign as planned after June 30, 2020 after five years of service. The artistic direction of the Salzburg Easter Festival will remain in the hands of Christian Thielemann until the 2022 Easter Festival . The
Until then, the Saxon Staatskapelle Dresden will be the residence orchestra of the Salzburg Easter Festival. “
Source: SN
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