The Salzburg Festival is Planning a Mythic Summer
Featuring Distinguished Professor Peter Sellars
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Distinguished Professor Peter Sellars will present a production of Mozart's Idomeneo at the Salzburg Festival in summer 2018.
“The Salzburg Festival plans to delve into myth next summer, with new opera productions including Mozart’s 'Idomeneo,' by Peter Sellars; Offenbach’s 'Orphée aux Enfers,' by Barrie Kosky; George Enescu’s 'Oedipe,' by Achim Freyer; and Cherubini’s 'Médée,' by Simon Stone.
From the Peter Sellars "La Clemenza di Tito" in 2017 ("Parto, ma tu mio ben")CreditCreditVideo by medici.tv
'Mythology means going to the root of everything and questioning what it means in our time,' the festival’s artistic director, Markus Hinterhäuser, said in a telephone interview about this edition of the festival, which will be his third at the helm. 'Great mythological tales are always like a mirror — in every generation, every period.'The festival, which will run from July 20 through Aug. 31, is one of the most important on the classical music calendar, bringing top-flight singers, directors, musicians, conductors and orchestras — the house band is the Vienna Philharmonic — to the birthplace of Mozart."— Michael Cooper, Nov. 14, 2018
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