The success should continue: Joana Mallwitz conducts Mozart’s “Magic Flute” in Salzburg this summer – nordbayern.de
– Nuremberg’s general music director Joana Mallwitz will continue her success story at the Salzburg Festival. In summer 2022 she will conduct Mozart’s opera “Die Zauberflöte” at the most important cultural festival in the world.
Nuremberg’s popular and internationally successful general music director Joana Mallwitz will also be there again at the next Salzburg Festival in summer 2022. She will take over the musical direction of Mozart’s opera “Zauberflöte”, as announced at the program presentation on Friday.
This production is a new staging of Lydia Steier’s production for the House of Mozart. Mallwitz conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and the Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Choir.
Mallwitz, who is currently on maternity leave and gave birth to a son in October, was supposed to make her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2020 with this Mozart work – as the first woman to rehearse the entire series of operas at this festival and conducts hat.
But the corona pandemic thwarted these plans – that summer there was only a reduced program with two operas. Mallwitz took over Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte”, which she and director Christof Loy produced in a shortened version that complied with the pandemic regulations of the time. In the summer of 2021 she conducted “Cosi” again in Salzburg – as in the previous year with an overwhelmingly positive response.
At the Klassik Open Air in Luitpoldhain, too, Joana Mallwitz caught the hearts of the audience.
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Mallwitz, die already at the Salzburg Festival. Mozart’s “Magic Flute”.
Overall, the time of global conflicts and upheavals at the beginning of the 20th century characterizes the program of the Salzburg Festival in summer 2022.
Three of the new operas, which were announced as new productions on Friday, originally date from around 1920: Asmik Grigorian will sing the three different leading roles in Giacomo Puccini’s “Il Trittico”. The Bayreuth and Salzburg proven director Barrie Kosky takes on Leos Janácek’s “Kata Kabanova”. And finally Teodor Currentzis will conduct Béla Bartók’s work “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle”, which will be performed together with Carl Orff’s “Game from the End of Times” from the 1970s.
The center of the theater program in Salzburg is traditionally Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Jedermann”, with whom the festival will open on July 18th. After their successful role debuts last summer, Lars Eidinger and Verena Altenberger will be back on stage as Jedermann and Buhlschaft in 2022.
The next season also brings a completely new version of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Reigen”. The ten scenes of the relationship drama, which premiered in 1920, were overwritten by ten authors – including Leïla Slimani and Lukas Bärfuss.
As in the two years, the program with 174 performances is subject to change due to the corona pandemic. “It’s still a situation that doesn’t make it easy for us to say what will ultimately be feasible,” said Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser.