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Salzburg Easter Festival
The Berliner Philharmoniker have made an annual appearance at the Salzburg Easter Festival, founded by Herbert von Karajan in 1967. Every year since then an opera in the Large Festival Hall (Großes Festspielhaus) has been the main performance.
In 2007 the artistic director and conductor Sir Simon Rattle started Richard Wagner's cycle The Ring of the Nibelung together with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, to be performed in Salzburg until 2010. Following The Rheingold, the 2008 Easter Festival program will feature The Valkyrie, once more under the direction of Stéphane Braunschweig, in co-production with the Festival d’Art lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence.
The Festival will start as usual on the Saturday preceding Palm Sunday (March 15, 2008) with the opera premiere of The Valkyrie and will continue until Easter Monday, when the second performance of the opera usually takes place (March 24, 2008). In between, three concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra will be held at the Large Festival Hall on six evenings (starting at 6:30 p.m.):
The "Orchestral Concert" on March 16 and 21, 2008 with works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shostakovich. Highlight of the evening: star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter as the soloist.
The "Choral Concert" with Joseph Hayden's Creation on March 17 and 23, 2008 performed by the Rundfunkchor Berlin.
The "Choral concert" on March 18 and 22, 2008 featuring works by Ferruccio Busoni, Antonín Dvořák and Johannes Brahms, accompanied by star cellist Heinrich Schiff.
>> The detailed program and information
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