Andrè Schuen

co-production with the Teatro Real (Madrid).

Le célèbre opéra de Puccini, enregistré durant le Bregenz Festival, en juillet 2015.

Mention Giacomo Puccini's name and opera-lovers all over the world will think of grand opera and passionate love stories. One of the world's most famous arias comes from the composer's final opera, Turandot: "Nessun dorma" none shall sleep because by morning the Chinese princess is determined to have discovered the name of the unknown prince. The work is remarkable for its Chinese local colour, its opulent crowd scenes, its powerful choruses and its characters overwhelmed by their emotions. Enthusiastically acclaimed by its audiences, the present production combines spectacular and touching scenes on the Bregenz Festival's vast lakeside stage.

À Salzbourg, Christof Loy met en scène le plus marivaudien des opéras de Mozart. Une œuvre dirigée par Joana Mallwitz, première femme à tenir la baguette d’un opéra au sein du prestigieux festival depuis sa création. Deux jeunes soldats, Guglielmo et Ferrando, fiancés à deux sœurs, Fiordigili et Dorabella, sont mis au défi par le cynique Don Alfonso, célibataire d'âge mûr. Il parie 100 sequins avec les deux amoureux qu'il parviendra à leur prouver l'infidélité de leurs belles. Guglielmo et Ferrando, acceptant de se prêter à son jeu, feignent donc de partir au régiment pour revenir, déguisés, courtiser chacun la fiancée de l'autre.

Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro performed live (and streamed) on the February 4, 2021.

Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid bare.

This Salzburg Festival production of Le nozze di Figaro (2020) offers a radical reinterpretation of Mozart's opera, directed by Martin Kušej, who continues his exploration of Mozart’s works following Don Giovanni (2002) and La clemenza di Tito (2003). The turbulent comedy, laden with erotic entanglements, exposes themes of patriarchal dependency, sexual exploitation, betrayal, and emotional emptiness. French conductor Raphaël Pichon, renowned for historically informed performances, conducts his first opera at Salzburg after his debut at the festival in 2018.