Select language:

Salzburg Festival is held with wide participation of Russian performers

 / Главная / Russkiy Mir Foundation / News / Salzburg Festival is held with wide participation of Russian performers

Salzburg Festival is held with wide participation of Russian performers


03.08.2022

Photo credit: mos.ru (CC BY 4.0)

The organizers of the Salzburg Festival refused to ''cancel'' Russian culture, Belcanto.ru reports. The music and theater forum is celebrating its 100th anniversary. 

One of the leaders and organizers of the festival, Markus Hinterhäuser, who is a great lover of Russian music and Russian performers, had to endure many unpleasant moments in disputes with Austrian officials and politicians who demanded to ban the presence of Russian performers. 

The musical program began with Dmitri Shostakovich's symphony "Babi Yar". The conductor's place was taken by Teodor Currentzis. Shostakovich's masterpiece was performed by the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Russian musicAeterna choir and Dmitry Ulyanov.

Teodor Currentzis became the musical director of the production of the Italian director Romeo Castellucci, who staged the opera based on the Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók and De Temporum Fine Comoedia by Carl Orff.

Many world-famous Russian soloists will take the stage.

The festival will run until the end of August.

Russkiy Mir

News by subject

Publications

Italian entrepreneur Marco Maggi's book, "Russian to the Bone," is now accessible for purchase in Italy and is scheduled for release in Russia in the upcoming months. In the book, Marco recounts his personal odyssey, narrating each stage of his life as a foreigner in Russia—starting from the initial fascination to the process of cultural assimilation, venturing into business, fostering authentic friendships, and ultimately, reaching a deep sense of identifying as a Russian at his very core.