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Summer Festival
Literary heavyweights, particularly from Eastern Europe, characterise the opera programme of the 2024 Summer Festival, which, according to Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser, is dominated by revolting protagonists. Many of the works deal with the rejection of a world that currently “demands more from us than we want or are able to.” After Strauss’ concertante “Capriccio” at the opening of the festival, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”, the free spirit par excellence, returns to the Großes Festspielhaus in a new production. Then things get more profound with Dostoyevsky’s Prince Myshkin, who ultimately fails himself and humanity due to his kind-hearted nature - in Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Idiot”, which is making its Salzburg premiere. The wonderful Lithuanian Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts. Peter Sellars also serves up more Russian repertoire with a premiere production of Prokofiev’s “The Gambler”. These two Russian works are juxtaposed with two French works: “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” and “Hamlet”, both exciting and with a top-class cast, garnished as always with the best orchestral fare and theatre, three milestone birthdays (Schönberg, Smetana and of course Bruckner) and with the very special flair of the festival days on the Salzach - you can look forward to concentrated musical highlights.