Salzburg Whitsun Festival

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May 17 - 20, 2013

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Young Conductors Award
Nestlé and Salzburg Festival
May 10 - 12, 2013

Highlights of the Whitsun Festival 2013

Opera Norma
Cecilia Bartoli
Giovanni Antonini
Ballett "Le Sacre du printemps"
Igor Strawinsky
re-rite – Be the Orchestra
A multimedia-based exhibition by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen
Concerts
artists: András Schiff, Valery Gergiev, dem Hagen Quartett und Alfred Brendel, René Pape, dem Wiener Singverein, Daniel Barenboim und seinem West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

History

The idea of holding a festival in Salzburg outside of the summer season goes back to one of the early Salzburg Festival pioneers: in 1919 Hugo von Hofmannsthal suggested that the Festival should be held "each year during the summer, occasionally at other times, for example Christmas or during the winter as well as at Easter and Whitsuntide."

In 1973 Herbert von Karajan founded the first Whitsun concerts to meet the requests for tickets by potential Easter Festival subscribers. Three orchestral concerts were performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan each day on Whitsun Saturday, Sunday and Monday until 1982. Starting in 1983 the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra was also conducted by other maestros including Sir Georg Solti, Seiji Ozawa and André Previn.

Salzburg Whitsun Festival
Guest concerts by international orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or the London Symphony Orchestra were added to the program after Herbert von Karajan's death. After 1989 the initial concept of focusing the Whitsun concerts on works by Anton Bruckner was no longer upheld. In 1997 the "Whitsun Concerts" name was given to Baden-Baden to pave the way for a new concept in Salzburg: Salzburg's Whitsun Festival was born in 1998.

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