Salzburg will stage two operas in August

The festival has announced it will put on Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte in the Grosses Festspielhaus, using 1,000 of 2,300 seats, and Richard Strauss’ Elektra in the Felsenreitschule, with 700.

Elektra with be conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, Così by the fast-rising Joana Mallwitz.

Casts: Cosi
Elsa Dreisig Fiordiligi
Marianne Crebassa Dorabella
Andrè Schuen Guglielmo
Bogdan Volkov Ferrando
Lea Desandre Despina
Johannes Martin Kränzle Don Alfonso

Elektra
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Klytämnestra
Aušrine Stundyte Elektra
Asmik Grigorian Chrysothemis
Michael Laurenz Aegisth
Derek Welton Orest
Tilmann Rönnebeck Orest’s Tutor
Verity Wingate The Trainbearer
Valeriia Savinskaia The Confidante
Matthäus Schmidlechner A Young Servant
Sonja Šarić The Overseer
Bonita Hyman, Katie Coventry, Deniz Uzun, Sinéad Campbell-Wallace, Natalia Tanasii Maidservants