As seen thru from above the ceiling of the Festspielhaus: Herbert von Karajan and Mistlav Rostropovitch with the Vienna Philharmonic rehearse Tchaikovsy's Roccoco Variations Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg Festival 1969
Frans Brüggen (1934_2014) at Mozarteum, Salzburg Festival 1985
Frans Brüggen (1934_2014) at Mozarteum, Salzburg Festival 1985
rehearsal at Pernerinsel Hallein during Salzburg Festival August 2 1995 /Varese Goebbels program with Ensemble Modern
Bowing after performance of Fidelio , Salzburg Festival 1996
Ludwig v. Beethoven Fidelio
Opera in two acts, Op. 72
Text by Joseph Sonnleithner, Stephan von Breuning and Georg Friedrich Treitschke based on Jean Nicolas BouillySir Georg Solti, Philippe Auguin, Conductor
Herbert Wernicke, Stage director
Herbert Wernicke, Sets
Herbert Wernicke, Costumes
Herbert Wernicke, Lighting design
Dietrich D. Gerpheide, Chorus master
Albrecht Puhlmann, Dramaturgy
CAST
Peter Mattei, Don Fernando
Tom Fox, Don Pizarro
Ben Heppner, Florestan
Cheryl Studer, Leonore
René Pape, Rocco
Ruth Ziesak, Marzelline
Roberto Saccà, Jaquino
Steve Davislim, First Prisoner
Steffen Rössler, Second Prisoner
Markus Hinterhäuser;(director of Zeitfluss) Hans Landesmann (artistic director) and Maurizio Pollini (pianist) chatting outside the festival Hall " Kleines Festspielhaus " during Salzburg Festival 1995
Luciano Berio Un Re in ascolto
Salzburg Festival 1984
Lorin Maazel bowing during applause at the end of the performance
Azione musicale in two partsTexts by Italo CalvinoGerman translation by Burkhard KroeberCommissioned by the Salzburg Festival Lorin Maazel, ConductorGötz Friedrich, Stage directorGünther Schneider-Siemssen, Stage setsRolf Langenfass, CostumesBernd Roger Bienert, ChoreographyErwin Ortner, Vocal ensemble masterCASTTheo Adam, ProsperoHeinz Zednik, DirectorHelmuth Lohner, FridayPatricia Wise, ProtagonistKaran Armstrong, Soprano ISylvia Greenberg, Soprano IIRohangiz Yachmi, MezzosopranoThomas Moser, TenorGeorg Tichy, BaritoneAlfred Muff, BassSamy Molcho, MimeGabriele Sima, NurseAnna Gonda, Prospero´s wifeHelmut Wildhaber, DoctorGeorge Ionescu, AdvocateStephen Harrap, Stephen Lano, PianistEmil Rieder, Accordion playerWilly Schützner, CarrierVokalensembleVienna Philharmonic
Luc Bondy and Christoph Marthaler in discussion outside the festival house Salzburg Festival 1996
Alfred Brendel and Simon Rattle in converstation after rehearsal Salzburg Frestival 2001
Patrice Chereau rehearsing the opera by Wolfgang A. Mozart Don Giovanni at Salzburg Festival 1995
il dissoluto punito
Dramma giocoso in two acts, K. 527by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Text by Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838)
Daniel Barenboim, ConductorPatrice Chéreau, Stage directorRichard Peduzzi, SetsMoidele Bickel, CostumesDominique Bruguière, LightingDietrich D. Gerpheide, Chorus MasterCASTFerruccio Furlanetto, Don GiovanniMatti Salminen, Il CommendatoreLella Cuberli, Donna AnnaPaul Groves, Don OttavioCatherine Malfitano, Donna Elvira, a lady from BurgosBryn Terfel, LeporelloRoberto de Candia, MasettoVesselina Kasarova, Zerlina, a peasant girl, betrothed to MasettosAlessandro De Marchi, HarpsichordInstrumental Ensemble Salzburg, Stage MusicConcert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus Vienna Philharmonic
Patricia Schuman as Vitellia in
Wolfgang A. Mozart
La clemenza di Tito at Salzburg Festival 1995
Opera seria in two acts, K. 621 (1791)
Libretto by Caterino Tommaso Mazzolà after the libretto of the same name (1734) by Pietro Metastasio
Gustav Kuhn, Conductor
Ursel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Stage director
Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Sets
Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Costumes
Winfried Maczewski, Chorus master
CAST
Jerry Hadley, Tito Vespasiano
Patricia Schuman, Vitellia
Dorothea Röschmann, Servilia
Vesselina Kasarova, Sesto
Debora Beronesi, Annio
Lorenzo Regazzo, Publio
Mark Hastings, Piano forte
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Camerata Salzburg
Taking a break: emplpyees and artists of the Salzburg Festival look out the window from the Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival 1995
Erwin Ortner and the choir for the opera by Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus at Felsenreitschule Salzburg Festival 2001
Operetta in three acts
Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée based on the comedy Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Edited by Hans Neuenfels
Hans Neuenfels, Stage director
Reinhard von der Thannen, Stage sets
Reinhard von der Thannen, Costumes
Erwin Ortner, Chorus master
Marco Santi, Choreography
Yvonne Gebauer, Dramaturgy
CAST
Christoph Homberger, Gabriel von Eisenstein
Elzbieta Szmytka, Mireille Delunsch, Rosalinde
Matthias Klink, Jerry Hadley, Alfred
Dale Duesing, Frank
Olaf Bär, Doktor Falke
David Moss, Prinz Orlofsky
Malin Hartelius, Anna Korondi, Adele
Franz Supper, Doktor Blind
Elisabeth Trissenaar, Frosch
Kerstin Slawek, Gertrud (Child)
Daniel Eberle, Heinz (Child)
Daniela Mühlbauer, Ida
Andreas Bettinger, Ivan
Marco Santi Danse Ensemble
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Mozart at Peterskirche in Salzburg during Salzburg Festival 1990
Stage director Lluis Pasqual rehearses Giuseppe Verdi,s La Traviata at Salzburg Festival 1995
Radu Lupu and Riccardo Muti backstage after concert at the Big Festivalhaus Salzburg Festival 1995
Chris Merrit as Tito (getting ready to go onstage) in Wolfgang A. Mozart La clemenza di Tito Opera seria in two acts, K. 621 (1791)Libretto by Caterino Tommaso Mazzolà after the libretto of the same name (1734) by Pietro Metastasio Gustav Kuhn, ConductorUrsel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Stage directorKarl-Ernst Herrmann, SetsKarl-Ernst Herrmann, CostumesDietrich D. Gerpheide, Chorus masterCASTChris Merritt, Tito VespasianoPatricia Schuman, VitelliaElizabeth Norberg Schulz, ServiliaAnn Murray, SestoSusan Graham, AnnioPietro Spagnoli, PublioMark Hastings, Piano forteConcert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus Camerata Academica Salzburg alzburg Festival 1994
Gerard Mortier artistic director of the Salzburg Festival and Christine Schäfer (singer) chatting backstage before performance Salzburg Festival 1997
Anna Netrebko as Donna Anna from the Opera Don Giovanni by Mozart backstage in front of her dressing room Salzburg Festival 2002
The Festspielhaus of the Salzburg Festival seen from above at Mönchsberg; Salzburg 1984
Man collecting horse manure in front of the dressed up public as they are waiting to get into the Grosses Festspielhaus (Big Festival Hall) Salzburg Festival 1984)
Stage set with public at Salzburg Festival (Felsenreitschule) 1984 for the opera by Wolfgang A. Mozart Idomeneo James Levine, ConductorJean-Pierre Ponnelle, Stage directorsJean-Pierre Ponnelle, Stage setsJean-Pierre Ponnelle, CostumesWalter Hagen-Groll, Chorus masterCASTCurtis Rayam, IdomeneoWerner Hollweg (18.08, 28.08, 09.08), IdomeneoTrudeliese Schmidt, IdamanteYvonne Kenny, IliaElizabeth Connell, ElettraWilliam Lewis, ArbaceWalter Raffeiner, Gran Sacerdote di NettunoJames Morris, La VoceMadelyn Renée, Margareta Hintermeier, Due CretesiHorst Hiestermann, Alfred Muff, Due TroianiWarren Jones, CembaloFriedrich Dolezal, CelloConcert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus Vienna Philharmonic
Karl Lagerfeld in front of the Big Festival Hall in Salzburg before getting in for a performance,(with public watching behind fences in the back) Salzburg Festival 1990
two actresses waiting to appear in the performance of the play of Hugo von Hofmanstal Jederman in front of the kleines Festspielhaus (small festival hall) Salzburg Festival 1995
Melanie Diener, First Lady
Norine Burgess, Second Lady
Hélène Perraguin, Third Lady in Zauberflöte Salzburg Festival 1997 backstage before the performance of the magic flute by Mozart, costume and set design by Achim Freyer Salzburg Festival 1997
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Gurre-Lieder at the Salzburg Festival Felsenreitschule August 1996
Claudio Abbado, Conductor
Jane Eaglen, Tove
Marjana Lipovšek, Waldtaube
Thomas Moser, Waldemar
Kurt Azesberger, Klaus-Narr
Franz Grundheber, Bauer
Hans Hotter, Speaker
Julia Stemberger, Speaker
Jan Rozehnal, Chorus master
Dieter Kurz, Chorus master
Erwin Ortner, Artistic direction
Slovakian Philharmonic Choir Bratislava
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Südfunk-Chor Stuttgart