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| Salzburg Festival (photo credit: www.salzburg.info) |
Every summer, the scenic Austrian city of
Salzburg plays host to the world-renowned Salzburg Festival. This exciting
showcase of the country’s most talented artists, as well as worldwide
celebrated operatic and dramatic performances, can be enjoyed in the city’s
Great Festival Hall, which has been its setting since the 1920’s.
Historically, the Salzburg Festival has
been in existence since 1877, when it was organised by the International Mozart
Foundation, named after Salzburg’s most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. After a brief respite for the
First World War, the festival then continued in 1920, when Reinhardt famously
performed Hofmannsthal’s Jederman, on Salzburg’s Cathedral’s steps.
Since then, the festival has included a
number of iconic performances, to include one by the Von Trapp Family Singers,
whose life was famously dramatized in The
Sound of Music. Salzburg is extremely
proud of being the setting for this classic film, which seems to be celebrated
at every turn when exploring the city!
Today the festival is as popular as ever,
drawing crowds of thousands from throughout Austria, Western Europe and the
world to this comparatively small mountainside city. The programme for 2013
includes concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic, a Mozart Matinee by Ivor Bolton
and a dramatic performance of Snow White.
The 2013 Festival commences on the 19th
July, running for five weeks until its Grand Finale on the 1st
September. As well as being treated to productions by some of the world’s best
conductors, musicians, actors and singers, those fortunate enough to have
tickets will also be dazzled by stunning pyrotechnic displays and a backdrop of
dramatic illuminations.
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