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President Heinrich Spängler
LOOKING FORWARD TO A PROMISING FESTIVAL SUMMER
It is an old rule of the Festival that after a successful winter of orders
comes a promising Festival summer. Thank you for submitting your ticket
orders, the Ticket Office has as always done its utmost to try and meet
your requests. Not all the orders for Don Giovanni and for the Wagner
Gala could be fulfilled; for these and many other performances there is
a huge demand. In fact the demand for the Wagner Gala and the following
dinner is so huge that tickets are only available for patrons. I should
like to thank all patrons and members for showing such great understanding
in accepting the first fee increase for ten years. We have already exceeded
our target income for membership fees by
€ 10,000; donations by patrons are still coming in. For the first
time this summer a catalogue of patrons will be published in order to
show how proud we are of our patrons. Of course if you do not wish to
be mentioned by name we will respect this; please notify us by the end
of May.
President Heinrich
Spängler
After Easter we will be requesting you to support the Salzburg Festival by buying remaining tickets: for Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules, conducted by Kent Nagano, staged by Christine Mielitz in sets by the Viennese sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka, working for the Salzburg Festival for the first time, and for Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss.
Richard Strauss heard his opera only once, at the final dress rehearsal on 16 August 1944. At the time he said, “The last sigh was Salzburg! On 17th August dear Mozart should have called me to him.” Eight days before the premiere the entire Festival was cancelled. Die Liebe der Danae was given its world premiere in Salzburg in 1952 and now almost exactly to the day fifty years later it is back on the programme of the Festival. Conductor Fabio Luisi will be making his debut in Salzburg, the staging is by Günter Krämer, Deborah Voigt sings the role of Danae, Albert Bonema is Midas and Franz Grundheber sings Jupiter.
At the beginning of the Whitsuntide Baroque Festival we should like to
invite you on 17 May 2002 at 4 p.m. to an introductory talk about Handel’s
opera Radamisto. Conductor Martin Haselböck and stage director Hans Gratzer
will talk about their work. If you would like to attend, please let us
know by telephone on the number 0043 662 8045 284.
Tickets for other performances – Radamisto on 18 May in the Felsenreitschule,
the oratorio Jephtha on 17 May in the Grosses Festspielhaus and Gluck’s
opera Orphée et Eurydice on 19 May (Marc Minkowski is coming with his
Musiciens du Louvre and soloists Richard Croft and Mireille Delunsch)
– are available from the Salzburg Festival Ticket Office, telephone: 0043
662 8045-500 or by e-mail: info@salzburgfestival.at
Good news for all fans of the popular radio programme Ö1 Klassik Treffpunkt and Karl Löbl: three dates have been fixed for live relays from the Patrons’ Lounge in summer. Stage director Christine Mielitz will be Karl Löbl’s guest on 27 July; on 3 August the new Jedermann, actor Peter Simonischek, can be heard and on 10 August Barbara Bonney, who is singing the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. I hope you are looking forward to the summer as much as we are!
Ticket office of the Salzburg Festival
Telephone: 0043 662 8045-500
Telefax: 0043 662 8045-555
E-mail: info@salzburgfestival.at