The Soldiers: Salzburg Festival

O wydarzeniu

Bernd Alois Zimmermann's 'The Soldiers' (Die Soldaten) will be performed under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher at the Salzburg Festival.

Zimmermanns' opera in four acts is based on the play of the same title by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792). In Salzburg it will be presented as a co‐production with the Teatro alla Scala Milano.

Since its founding in 1920, the Salzburg Festival has established itself as the most important festival for opera, drama and concerts. The Salzburg Festival presents performances of opera, theatre and concerts of the highest artistic standards over a period of five to six weeks each summer. Conductors, stage‐directors, orchestras, singers, actors and virtuoso instrumentalists of world renown can be seen and heard in July and August in the town on the river Salzach.

Even the most eminent opera stars come together here to rehearse productions intensively for several weeks, thereby fulfilling the creed of the Salzburg Festival as it was originally envisioned by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, one of the Festival’s founding fathers: “Dramatic play‐acting in the strongest sense is our intention; routine, run‐of‐the‐mill performances have no place here.”

New production
In German with German and English surtitles

Team
Ingo Metzmacher, Conductor
Alvis Hermanis, Stage Director and Set Design
Eva Dessecker, Costume Design
Gleb Filshtinsky, Lighting
Götz Leineweber, Dramaturgy

Cast
Alfred Muff, Wesener, a fancy‐goods merchant in Lille
Laura Aikin, Marie, his daughter
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Charlotte, his daughter
Cornelia Kallisch, Wesener‘s old mother
Tomasz Konieczny, Stolzius, a draper in Armentières
Stefanie Kaluza, Stolzius’s mother
Reinhard Mayr, Obrist, Count of Spannheim
Daniel Brenna, Desportes, a young French nobleman
Wolfgang Ablinger‐Sperrhacke, Pirzel, a captain
Boaz Daniel, Eisenhardt, an army chaplain
Matjaž Robavs, Major Haudy
Morgan Moody, Major Mary
Gabriela Beňačková, Countess de la Roche
Matthias Klink, The Young Count, her son
Beate Vollack, An Andalusian Waitress
Andreas Früh, Paul Schweinester, Clemens Kerschbaumer, Three Young Officers
Vienna Philharmonic

Please note: You must exchange your Classictic e‐Ticket for an official festival ticket at the Ticketshop and Salzburger Hotelservice office (Getreidegasse 5, 5020 Salzburg) before the concert.