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Salzburg Barbiere is an exuberant celebration of old movies

Nicola Alaimo (Figaro), Edgardo Rocha (Almaviva), Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina) and Arturo Brachetti © Monika Rittershaus

Despite some forgivable excesses, Nicola Alaimo and Cecilia Bartoli led a dream cast for a fun, engaging performance of Rossini's classic.

****1
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L’italiana arrives in Zurich from Salzburg on a dromedary’s back

Opernhaus Zürich presents a Salzburg Festival production of Rossini’s first masterpiece, with a stellar cast and an orchestra on original instruments, under the baton of Gianluca Capuano.

*****
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A hole in the heart: Salzburg Festival’s new Don Giovanni

The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving. 
***11
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Alcina’s Hotel California at Salzburg's Whitsun festival

Michieletto presents an engaging new production where magic and reality reflect each other through a mirror, and humans are exposed in all their vulnerability.
****1
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Surreal première: The Exterminating Angel

The Salzburg Festival audience warmly applauded Thomas Adès, Tom Cairns and all musicians for a rounded and gripping première.
****1
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Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt: Drei Schwestern von Eötvös in Salzburg

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Olga), Dennis Orellana (Irina), Cameron Shahbazi (Mascha) © SF | Monika Rittershaus
Die Hommage an den 2024 verstorbenen ungarischen Komponisten wird zum Großerfolg: Evgeny Titov wartet mit einer schlüssigen Inszenierung auf, und Maxime Pascal steuert mit dem Klangforum Wien viel Atmosphärisches bei. 
*****
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