Just in: Salzburg plays the Idiot
NewsThe festival has just announced next summer’s operas.
The eye-catcher is Mieczysław Weinberg’s setting of Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot, conducted by Weinberg champion Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and directed by festival stalwart Krzysztof Warlikowski. This may well be the first time the Vienna Philharmonic play Weinberg’s music.
Peter Sellars will direct Prokofiev’s The Gambler, with Asmik Grigoryan and Violeta Urmana.
Mark Minkowski conducts Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann with Benjamin Bernheim and Kathryn Lewek.
Teodor Currentzis conducts the Utopia Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart’s Don Giovanni; and there’s a revival of Cecilia Bartoli’s Whitsum production of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito.
There will also be concert performances of Ambroise Thomas Hamlet, Richard Strauss Capriccio, Luigi Dallapiccola Ii Prigioneiro, Luigi Nono’s Il Canto Sospeso, Georg Friedrich Haas’s Koma and Beat Furrer’s Begehren.
The idiot is an amazing opera, the premiere recording done by Thomas Sanderling at Mannheim was great
I nearly fell asleep during the performance.
Weinberg’s time has finally come. His violin concerto is one of the twentieth century’s greatest.