Camerata Salzburg: 70s celebration with a surprise concert
The celebratory concert on November 11 (repeat on November 13) is also the prelude to the orchestra’s five seasonal concerts in Salzburg, where it wants to turn the tables: the guests are supposed to be surprised, with a program that has not yet been revealed . This should not only be about 70 years ago, but also about the future. A total of 60 concerts with no fewer than 48 different conductors and soloists are in the diary for the anniversary season. The Camerata will be heard six times in its second home, the Vienna Konzerthaus, where it has taken the stage 185 times since 1959. Other fixtures include concerts at the Salzburg Festival (including Schubert’s Mass in E flat major conducted by Franz Welser-Möst) and the Salzburg Mozart Week.
International exhibitions planned
International guest performances take the orchestra to festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, the Montreux Festival, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Stockholm Konserthuset, the New Year’s Concert in Lucerne and Ludwigshafen. In addition, tours to Santander, Mallorca, Lyon, Vilnius, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Friedrichshafen, Bilbao and South America are planned.
After its founding, the Camerata was directed by Paumgartner himself for almost two decades. Other long-standing directors were Sandor Végh and Sir Roger Norrington. Since 2016, the orchestra has been in charge itself, with the two concertmasters Gregory Ahss and Giovanni Guzzo alternating as the respective “primus inter pares”.