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19 July – 31 August 2024
The Salzburg Festival is one of the world's most important festivals for opera, music and drama. The wide-ranging programme includes classics and world-famous artists as well as a varied programme for young people.
The Salzburg Festival, covering 44 days, presents a varied programme with 172 performances held in 15 venues. Opera highlights include Prokofiev's The Gambler, Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito and Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Drama, besides a new production of Everyman [Jedermann], presents performances based on plays by Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Under the motto "Et exspecto", the 2024 Ouverture Spirituelle focuses on the comfort of hope and the uncertainty of expectation.
The 2024 opera productions centre on people in revolt. Different aspects of revolutionary characters are shown in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Prokofiev's The Gambler, Weinberg's The Idiot, and Mozart's Don Giovanni and La Clemenza di Tito. Five operas will also be presented in concert performance.
In three focal areas, Marina Davydova, the new Director of Drama, places human beings in relation to transcendence, their own history and their bodies. She takes texts based on Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and integrates dance into the drama. The new production of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann (the play at the heart of the Festival's founding) is awaited with keen interest – particularly in Philipp Hochmair in the title role and Deleila Piasko as his paramour. The programme also features a performative discussion with an artificial intelligence named Morpheus, and a reading by Michael Maertens from letters written by Alexei Navalny from prison.
The 2024 concert programme is marked by major anniversary celebrations. The "Time with..." series is devoted to Arnold Schoenberg, whose 150th birthday falls in 2024. The Vienna Philharmonic performs five concerts, conducted by Herbert Blomstedt, Andris Nelsons, Riccardo Muti, Gustavo Dudamel and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Visiting ensembles in the Guest Orchestra series include the Orchester Utopia, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Collegium Vocale 1704, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Berliner Philharmonic, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Further items on the Summer 2024 programme are the "Ouverture Spirituelle", Mozart Matinees, lieder recitals, chamber and church concerts.
The youth programme features 53 performances ranging from music theatre to drama, interactions and Young Art, with in-depth opportunities for communication. 2024 will also see "Festival mentoring", where experienced Festival visitors introduce young adults to the world of the Festival. In addition, the opera camps for children and young people aged 9 – 17 enjoy great popularity.