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Salzburg Festival artistic director reappointed - Why it matters

Ahead of Austria's biggest opera and drama festival, Markus Hinterhäuser is reappointed as artistic director of Salzburg until 2031.

5 April 2024

Musica

Who will be crowned the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors champion?

Feel the excitement skyrocket as we go behind the scenes at the final of the prestigious Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award in Salzburg.

21 December 2023

Musica

The next superstar conductor: Salzburg hosts unique competition

In this episode of Musica, we meet the talented young conductors hoping to break through to the greatest orchestras, as they vie for the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award in Salzburg.

23 November 2023

Musica

Secrets of the tenor’s voice: Juan Diego Flórez and Benjamin Bernheim

World-famous tenors Juan Diego Flórez and Benjamin Bernheim: two heroes of contemporary opera

15 December 2022

Destinations

These six European cities have the best Christmas markets in 2022

Christmas markets are great places for finding unique stocking fillers.

26 November 2022

Musica

Young Peruvian talent shines at the 2022 Salzburg Festival

By providing free music education for disadvantaged kids in Peru, legendary tenor Juan Diego Flórez had one dream: to change lives through music. The result? His Sinfonía por el Peru Youth Orchestra lit up the room at the renowned Salzburg Festival!

20 October 2022

Austria

Three Polish researchers trapped by melting water in Austrian cave

Rescue services were working to reach the stranded trio on Friday.

18 February 2022

Musica

Benjamin Bernheim stuns at the Salzburg Festival with an intimate recital

On stage, the tenor Benjamin Bernheim often incarnates the role of the lover and he remained true to this at his recital at the Salzburg Festival singing songs from Brahms to Britten and praising love to the highest tones.

26 August 2021

Musica

Cecilia Bartoli's meditation on time dazzles Salzburg

"Time is ungrateful because when you need time, you don't have it" - Cecilia Bartoli dedicates this year's edition of the Whitsun Festival in Salzburg to her home town of Rome and conveys a meditation on time through Händel's 'Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno'.

27 May 2021

Musica

Previously unknown Mozart piece enthuses Mozart week

Famous pianist, Seong-Jin Cho, gives the world premiere of a recently discovered Mozart piano solo, 'Allegro in D - K.626b/16, during Mozart week at the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation.

28 January 2021

Musica

Gustavo Dudamel's magical 'Firebird' inspires the Salzburg Festival

Gustavo Dudamel's magical 'Firebird' inspires at the Salzburg Festival - in this edition of Musica on Euronews.

3 September 2020

Musica

The show goes on: 'Così fan tutte' at the Salzburg Festival

The show goes on: Così fan tutte performed at the Salzburg Festival. Austria's music and drama festival returns to celebrate its first centenary, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

13 August 2020

Austria

100th Salzburg festival goes ahead despite coronavirus pandemic

Spectators have to wear a mask until they are seated, and there are no intermissions or catering.

2 August 2020

Musica

Der Messias: Robert Wilson stages Mozart's oratorio in Salzburg

Der Messias which premiered in Mozart Week in Salzburg in a production staged by American director and visual artist Robert Wilson, known as the 'master of minimalism'

30 January 2020

Musica

Kosky’s Orphée aux enfers: “visual and vocal pyrotechnics” in Salzburg

This year marks the 200th anniversary of composer Jacques Offenbach's birth. To commemorate this, director Barrie Kosky has reinvented the artist's famous operetta - Orphée aux Enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) - being performed at the Salzburg Festival until the 30th of August.

22 August 2019

Musica

Salzburg’s ‘Heavenly Voices’ with Cecilia Bartoli and Philippe Jaroussky

Voci celesti - 'Heavenely Voices' is dedicated to this year's edition to castrato voices who inspired Handel and many other Baroque composers. 'Alcina' also features on the bill of the Salzburg Summer Festival, where it will be performed between 8 - 18 August. The festival runs from 20 July - 31 Aug

13 June 2019