Emotional Mozart at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Regula Mühlemann, Gianluca Capuano and Les Musiciens du Prince

Soloists, Gianluca Capuano, Salzburg Bach Choir, Il Canto di Orfeo and Les Musiciens du Prince

Juliette Mey

By Laura Servidei, 20 May 2024

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“this orchestra is increasingly becoming a benchmark for period instrument performances”

Reviewed at Felsenreitschule, Salzburg on 19 May 2024

Mozart, Mass no. 18 in C minor "Great", K427 (K417a)

Regula Mühlemann, Soprano

Juliette Mey, Mezzo-soprano

Jan Petryka, Tenor

Yasushi Hirano, Bass

Il Canto di Orfeo

Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco

Gianluca Capuano, Conductor

Bachchor Salzburg

Bluebeard as psychothriller in Castellucci's mismatched double bill

George Jahn, 2nd August

Romeo Castellucci's intense production of Bartók's opera reaps its rewards in the performance under Teodor Currentzis, but Carl Orff's opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia feels little more than a drab filler.

***11

Alcina’s Hotel California at Salzburg's Whitsun festival

Laura Servidei, 9th June

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

Caldara's La Morte d’Abel rediscovered at Salzburg Whitsun festival

Laura Servidei, 9th June

A great performance of a nearly-forgotten 18th-century oratorio in Salzburg celebrates the castrati’s “Heavenly Voices”, the theme of the Whitsun festival.

****1

Cecilia Bartoli debuts La donna del lago at the Whitsun Salzburg Festival

Laura Servidei, 4th June

Bartoli shines in another Rossini role supported by an uneven cast.

**111

Surreal première: The Exterminating Angel

Christine Arnold, 28th July

The Salzburg Festival audience warmly applauded Thomas Adès, Tom Cairns and all musicians for a rounded and gripping première.

****1

Superlative: Mahlers Achte mit den Berliner Philharmonikern

Svenja Koch, 17th January

Unter dem Dirigat von Kirill Petrenko ist die Symphonie Nr. 8 von Gustav Mahler keine Symphonie der dröhnenden 1000 Dezibel, sondern eine Symphonie des Atems und der Berührung.

*****

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Laura Servidei

Mathematician, science nerd, translator of popular science books, obsessed opera fan since the teen years. Day job: business analyst in a software house developing systems for the financial industry. Amateur choral singer. Main musical interests: baroque music and Italian opera. Originally from Italy, currently based in Sweden. I make a mean eggplant parmesan.

Emotional Mozart Mass in C minor at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival