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Salzburg 2001: Mortier's last stand.(Gerard Mortier)
This year saw the tenth and last Salzburg Festival under the artistic direction of Gerard Mortier, and the operas presented in the first part of that festival gave a reasonable picture of the strengths and weaknesses of Mortier's reign. A firebrand young opera intendant (in Brussels) of uncompromising avant-garde principles, he was hired by the Salzburg Festival management in order to move away from, if not obliterate, the image of the Herbert von Karajan years: the big star performances (allied to almost a trade show for record companies) at high prices for affluent continentals.
The task was Sisyphean, given the implacable opposition of many ticket buyers, the ...
- De Mortier, nil nisi bonum: Salzburg festival. (music, drama and opera)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 7, 1996 700+ words
...advice for a newcomer to the Salzburg festival. Get to the Festspielhaus...the case that since Gerard Mortier, an unabashed modernist...five years of arguing with Mr Mortier over casting and styles of...who was once an ally of Mr Mortier against the Salzburg traditionalists...
- Gerard Mortier Named New General Manager and Artistic Director of New York City...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 28, 2007 700+ words
...s opera'." Gerard Mortier is a world-renowned opera...Rolf Liebermann -- Mr. Mortier led the Theatre Royal de...Karajan as director of the Salzburg Festival, which he led for the next decade. Mr. Mortier next assumed a three...
- Salzburg High.(Salzburg Festival)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country GUREWITSCH, MATTHEW April 1, 2000 700+ words
...profitable attraction--but the Salzburg Festival. For the happy few with the means...become a habit, even a cult. "The Salzburg Festival is high-octane," says (Gilbert...once in 1996 for the opening of the Salzburg Festival. (It's as if an actor were to...
- Conservatives and modernizers. (1995 Salzburg Festival)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 9, 1995 700+ words
...fallen women at this year's Salzburg festival. Alban Berg's Lulu destroyed...about man in Salzburg, Gerard Mortier, confounded his many critics...staying stubbornly upright. Mr Mortier, an innovative and controversial...with staging added; Mr Mortier sees it as drama with music...
- What to wear for Salzburg.(1999 Salzburg Festival)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 4, 1999 700+ words
...of Europe's most famous music festivals may outlast Gerard Mortier THANKS to Gerard Mortier, equipping oneself for the Salzburg festival is becoming a problem. In the pre-Mortier era, when Herbert von Karajan ran the whole costly show with...
- Arts Focus: Salzburg Festival wide of the Marx; An insider's guide to the local...
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) August 27, 2001 700+ words
...at the wonderful Salzburg Festival which ends this week...Festival Director Gerard Mortier, now in his final...programme of the first Salzburg Festival in 1926. Declan...should be at the Salzburg Festival which runs till August...
- A spirit of place. (rethinking the Salzburg festival)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 3, 1990 700+ words
...financial stringency, the Salzburg Festival is having another go...time duo: Gerard Mortier, well-known for...in Salzburg, but a Salzburg festival, a celebration of...his work", as Mr Mortier puts it), with new...
- Amid upheavals, a steady Salzburg Festival; Amid upheaval, a steady festival ;...
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune George Loomis August 19, 2009 700+ words
...Amid upheavals, a steady Salzburg Festival; Amid upheaval, a steady...carico d'amore." As the Salzburg Festival began last month, it was...shaping up much like any other Salzburg Festival. Quality is typically measured...eventful reign of Gerard Mortier. Meanwhile, Alexander...
