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Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2012-2013




“Sacrifice – OPFER – victim” is the motto which Cecilia Bartoli has inscribed upon her second Salzburg Whitsun Festival.

Cecilia Bartoli at BOZAR 2007

SALZBURG: These terms include the various aspects of being sacrificed, becoming a victim and surrendering – reflected by the very different events that make up the Whitsun Festival. Vincenzo Bellini’s tragic druid priestess Norma is the central focus, performed for the first time on historic instruments and in a new critical edition by Riccardo Minasi and Maurizio Biondi in Salzburg
. Norma will also be performed by the same cast five times during the summer Festival

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Under the baton of Giovanni Antonini and directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, Cecilia Bartoli takes on the title role as Medea

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. In addition, Rebeca Olvera will perform Adalgisa, John Osborn the role of Pollione and Michele Pertusi that of Oroveso. Sets: Christian Fenouillat, costumes: Agostino Cavalca. Over four days, the opera will be surrounded by concerts featuring artists such as András Schiff, Valery Gergiev with the ballet, chorus and orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater from St. Petersburg, Diego Fasolis, Franco Fagioli, Javier Camarena, Roberta Invernizzi, I Barocchisti, Vadim Repin, Ildar Abdrazakov, the Hagen Quartet and Alfred Brendel, René Pape, the Wiener Singverein, Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, among others. In a plethora of masterworks, they will illustrate the central topic further – as will the interactive multi-media exhibit re-rite, created by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra. Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film, Offret (The Sacrifice) will be screened by the center for film culture DAS KINO between May 17 and 19, 2013. The film deals with questions of sacrifice and redemption in a philosophical way and also provided the inspiration for the program brochure of the 2013 Salzburg Whitsun Festival.

The program of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival is supported by “Rolex”.

 

Cecilia Bartoli, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival:

“The tragic ambiguity between their duties and what their heart tells them to do is a struggle many women face sooner or later. Far too often, women give up what is most precious to them; but far too often, they also end up as victims themselves. Norma is determined to avoid this conflict by sacrificing what she loves most: first her children, then her love, and finally her life.

I wanted this fundamental conflict to be the theme of the 2013 Whitsun Festival. I was particularly interested in the dichotomy that becomes obvious when one translates the German word Opfer – in English, it means both ‘sacrifice’ and ‘victim’. But in fact and truth, isn’t the difference in most cases a matter of perspective? After all, there can be no sacrifice without someone or something being sacrificed, without an offering – the question is only on which side one finds oneself”.

From the Preface to the 2013 Salzburg Whitsun Festival’s Program Brochure: 

 

For the first time, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival will see the scenic production of a second work:

Exactly 100 years after its scandalous world premiere, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du printemps will be performed in the reconstructed original version of Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography and in the archaic sets and costumes by Nicholas Roerich dominated by Fauvist color combinations. This will be framed by further masterworks from the heritage of the Ballets Russes, performed by artists of the Mariinsky Theater St. Petersburg.

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