Salzburg Bach Choir in performance at 2006 Salzburg Festival. (Photo: Hubert Felk/Salzburger Bachchor)
The Salzburg Fesstival, one of the world’s premiere performing arts celebrations, opened its 95th season yesterday with a schedule of 188 performances, down from 270 last year, and a 6% budget cut.
The festival’s new directors, installed after the previous director, known for his extravagance left to run La Scala in Milan, will now try to show that “less is more” is not just a slogan. This year’s program includes new productions of three operas, including a new staging of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro; new adaptations of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and the Brecht/Weill Threepenny Opera.
Over 200,000 visitors are expected for the Festival, which runs through August 30. For more detail, visit the festival’s website HERE, or TheLocal.at HERE.
