On 20 July Jörg Widmann performs Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps during the Ouverture spirituelle concerts, joining forces with Nicolas Altstaedt, Alina Ibragimova and Alexander Lonquich. On 21 and 22 August Jörg Widmann conducts the Mozarteumorchester in Mozart-Matinee Concerts, performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and conducting the overture of La nozze die Figaro and Mozart’s Symphony No.41 ​“Jupiter”. 

Maxime Pascal conducts two performances at Salzburg Festival. On 23 July he conducts SWR Symphonieorchester and singers from Bachchor Salzburg in works by Klaus Huber, Luigi Nono, and Giacinto Scelsi. On 24 July he conducts his ensemble Le Balcon in a performing of Stockhausen’s Inori, in collaboration with Emmanuelle Grach and Florent Dérex.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja makes three appearances at this year’s Salzburg Festival. On 26 July she performs Luigi Nono’s work La Nontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, for violin and eight-track tape, with sound direction by André Richard. On 28 July her project Dies Irae is brought to the Festival, exploring the relationship between humanity and the climate crisis. On 12 August Kopatchinskaja performs Pierrot Lunaire with regular collaborators Júlia Gállego, Joonas Ahonen, Meesun Hong Coleman, Thomas Kaufmann, and a special appearance by Andreas Ottensamer. 

Lawrence Zazzo returns to the Salzburg Festival as Disinganno in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. Robert Carsen’s production opens on 4 August, conducted by Gianluca Capuano. The production had its first outing at the Whitsun Festival in May and received excellent reviews, where Lawrence was particularly praised for beguiling the audience with a voice ​“pure as a bell” (Wiener Zeitung). 

More information, dates and trailer here.

Sarah Aristidou makes her Salzburg Festival debut on 13 August in a concert performance of Morton Feldman’s one act opera, Neither with ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien under Ilan Volkov.