Artistic Director Peter Ruzicka and Director of Drama Martin Kusej presented the program for the 2005 Salzburg Festival at the annual press conference, which consists of 183 events. The following is an overview of opera productions and vocal recitals:
OPERA
GLUCK:
Alceste, tragédie-opéra in three acts (1776)
Ivor Bolton conducting the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg and Salzburger Bachchor
Cast includes:
Alceste — Anna Caterina Antonacci
Admète — Charles Workman
évandre — Topi Lehtipuu
A Herold / Hercule — Luca Pisaroni
Le Grand-Pretre / Apollo — Johan Reuter
MOZART:
Così fan tutte, dramma giocoso in two acts (K. 588)
Philippe Jordan conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker and Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Cast includes:
Fiordiligi — Tamar Iveri
Dorabella — Maite Beaumont
Despina — Helen Donath
Ferrando — Christoph Strehl
Guglielmo — Russell Braun
Don Alfonso — Thomas Allen
Mitridate, Re di Ponto, opera seria in three acts (KV 87 (74a))
Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musiciens du Louvre – Grenoble
Cast includes:
Mitridate — Richard Croft
Aspasia — Eva Mei
Sifare — N.N.
Farnace — Bejun Mehta
Ismene — Ingela Bohlin
Die Zauberflöte, German opera in two acts (K. 620)
Riccardo Muti conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker and Concert Association Vienna Staatsoper Chorus
Cast includes:
Sarastro — René Pape; Günther Groissböck (Aug 19, 21)
Tamino — Michael Schade
Speaker — Franz Grundheber; Michael Volle (Aug 26, 28)
The Queen of the Night — Anna Kristina Kaapola
Pamina — Genia Kühmeier
Three Ladies of the Queen — Edith Haller, Karine Deshayes, Ekaterina Gubanova
Three Boys — Members of the Vienna Boys’ Choir
Papageno — Simon Keenlyside
An Old Woman (Papagena) — Martina Janková
Monostatos — Burkhard Ulrich
Two Men in Arms — Simon O’Neill, Günther Groissböck /Peter Loehle (Aug 19, 21)
Two Priests — Franz Grundheber /Michael Volle (Aug 26, 28), Xavier Mas
SCHREKER:
Die Gezeichneten, opera in three acts (1918)
Kent Nagano conducting Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Concert Association Vienna Staatsoper Chorus
Cast includes:
Duke Antoniotto Adorno / The Capitaneo di giustizia — Robert Hale
Count Andrea Vitelozzo Tamare — Michael Volle
Lodovico Nardi — Wolfgang Schöne
Carlotta Nardi — Anne Schwanewilms
Alviano Salvago — Robert Brubaker
Guidobaldo Usodimare — Bernard Richter
Menaldo Negroni — John Nuzzo
Michelotto Cibo — Mel Ulrich
Gonsalvo Fieschi — Thomas Oliemans
Julian Pinelli — Guillaume Antoine
Paolo Calvi — Stephen Gadd
TCHAIKOVSKY:
Mazeppa, opera in three acts
Valery Gergiev conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Kirov Theater
Cast includes:
Mazeppa — Valery Alexeev
Kotchubey — Vladimir Vaneev
Lyubov — Larissa Diadkova /Olga Savova
Maria — Olga Guriakova
Andrei — Oleg Balashov
VERDI:
La Traviata, opera in three acts
Marcello Viotti conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker and Concert Association Vienna Staatsoper Chorus
Cast includes:
Violetta Valery — Anna Netrebko
Flora Bervoix — Helene Schneiderman
Alfredo Germont — Rolando Villazón; James Valenti (Aug 16)
Giorgio Germont — Thomas Hampson
Gastone — Salvatore Cordella
Marquis d’Obigny — Hermann Wallèn
Doctor Grenvil — Luigi Roni
Giuseppe — Tritan Luca
A Servant — Fritz Springer
RECITALS
CECILIA BARTOLI & ANDRáS SCHIFF
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzosoprano, András Schiff, piano
Program includes works by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Georges Bizet (1838-1875) and Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910)
DIANA DAMRAU
Diana Damrau, soprano, Stephan Matthias Lademann, piano
Program includes works by Alban Berg (1885-1935), Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942), Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), and Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
MATTHIAS GOERNE
Matthias Goerne, baritone, Alexander Schmalcz, piano
Program includes:
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) — Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Alban Berg (1885-1935) — Four Songs Op. 2
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) — Wesendonck-Lieder
THOMAS HAMPSON
Thomas Hampson, baritone, Wolfram Rieger, piano
Forbidden and Banished
Persecuted Composers – Persecuted Music I
Program includes works by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) and Alban Berg (1885-1935)
HAMPSON PROJECT
Soprano — Melanie Diener
Mezzosoprano — Michelle Breedt
Tenor — Piotr Beczala
Baritone — Thomas Hampson
Piano — Wolfram Rieger
Forbidden and Banished
Persecuted Composers – Persecuted Music II
Program includes works by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942), Franz Schreker (1878-1934), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1898-1957), Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), Ernst Krenek (1900-1991), Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and Pavel Haas (1899-1944)
SOPHIE KOCH
Sophie Koch, mezzosoprano, Nelson Goerner, piano
Program includes works by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Henri Duparc (1848-1949) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
MICHAEL SCHADE
Michael Schade, tenor, Malcolm Martineau, piano
Program: Franz Schubert (1797-1828) — Die schöne Müllerin (D 795)
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