Lohengrin – New cooperation between the State Opera and the Salzburg Easter Festival
The Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Easter Festival announced another co-production with Wagner’s Lohengrin. The production will premiere in April 2022 at the Salzburg Easter Festival, followed by the premiere series in Vienna in the 2023/24 season. Christian Thielemann will conduct both series of performances.
A multi-award-winning team with Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito (staging) as well as Anna Viebrock (stage and costumes), who released Henze’s Das ver Betratere Meer with great success at the Vienna State Opera last season, will be at the control desk.
“It was important to me to plan my first Salzburg opera premiere with a strong partner whom we found in Haus am Ring and director Bogdan Roscic,” said Nikolaus Bachler. “Our two have been in close contact since the brainstorming and conception phase. I am delighted that this extraordinary production can be seen in both Salzburg and Vienna.”
Bogdan Roscic, Director of the Vienna State Opera: “It was a pleasure to develop this production together with Christian Thielemann, who will also conduct it in Vienna, and Nikolaus Bachler. A major focus of the State Opera is to produce new productions of the central one year after year Bringing out Wagner works, and this project is an important contribution to that. “
Balance of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2021: occupancy at 85 percent
This year has been postponed to October 29th to November 1st due to Corona, according to the organizer, the shortened Salzburg Easter Festival has ended with a total occupancy of almost 85 percent. At Easter 2022 the festival will take place again on a regular basis – from April 9th to 18th. In his farewell year, Christian Thielemann conducts the new production of Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” as artistic director of the festival – in coproduction with the Vienna State Opera.
“It was important to me to plan my first Salzburg opera premiere with a strong partner whom we found in Haus am Ring and director Bogdan Roscic,” said Nikolaus Bachler, who will take on overall artistic responsibility for the Salzburg Easter Festival next year. on Tuesday in a broadcast. “Our two houses have been in close contact since the brainstorming and conception phase.”
A major focus of the State Opera is to bring out new productions of the central Wagner works every year, “and this project is an important contribution to it”, but Roscic’s request: “It was a pleasure to do this production together with Christian Thielemann, who in the season In 2023/24 he will also conduct the premiere series in Vienna and develop Nikolaus Bachler. “
Bachler has announced a realignment and expansion of the Easter Festival for 2023. This also includes the end of the contract with the Saxon State Orchestra under Thielemann.