The Salzburg Festival transforms the baroque city with everything from star-studded chamber evenings to experimental theater productions. This year’s program (Friday to Aug. 30) revolves around human ...
The festival’s chief loves inviting productions back, giving attendees another shot at seeing a beloved show, and allowing directors a chance to nail it on the second try. By A.J. Goldmann Lydia ...
Maxime Pascal, a latecomer to classical music, forged an unusual path to the podium that has paid off for him and for audiences. By Joshua Barone No other festival matches the sheer profusion of ...
In Salzburg, Austria last spring, I skipped around the fountain outside Mirabell Palace. Others did too. Some 60 years earlier, Maria and the von Trapp children danced around the palace's Pegasus ...
Stroll through a city steeped in the aroma of classical music, listening closely to the melodies left by musicians and the ...
Then General Music Director (GMD) of the Komische Oper Berlin Kirill Petrenko conducts in the Komische Oper Berlin during a rehearsal of the comedy "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss. The ...
IF you miss the 1990s, then there is a place in Europe where you can feel like you are back there. Sitting on the shores of ...
One reason that many people went to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria this year was to watch the excitement that would occur if the Festival had to be called off. Adolf Hitler, whose Bayreuth ...
In 1842, the little Austrian Tyrolean town of Salzburg started the summer music festivals in honor of its illustrious son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These festivals were attended by the good, ...
SALZBURG, Austria — Dhananjay Raval first saw The Sound of Music, as a young child. This summer, he traveled from his hometown of Ahmedabad in western India with his own adult son to fulfill a ...
Tourism in the Austrian city of Salzburg generates about a billion euros annually. Many of those tourists visit locations where some scenes of The... 'The Sound of Music' was filmed in Salzburg 60 ...