2023-07-27 20:23:05
ORF General Director Weißmann: “Culture for everyone in one ORF for everyone” – “Macbeth” premiere next live highlight on TV on July 29 in ORF 2
Vienna/Salzburg (OTS) – On the day of the official opening of the 103rd Salzburg Festival by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen today, Thursday, July 27, 2023, the ORF, which broadcast the ceremony from the Felsenreitschule live on ORF 2 and 3sat in the morning, also asked briefly before the first opera premiere of the season (“Le nozze di Figaro”, live from 6 p.m. on Ö1) to the annual festival reception in the Great Festival Hall. Around 120 guests from the world of culture, media, business and politics accepted the invitation from ORF General Director Roland Weißmann to this now traditional event, with which the broadcaster symbolically starts its opulent program focus on the biggest cultural event of the year, led by Salzburg’s Governor Wilfried Haslauer and the Salzburg Festival Directorate with Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser, Festival President Kristina Hammer and Commercial Director Lukas Crepaz. Moderated by ORF TV culture director Martin Traxl, the event focused on top-class concert and opera productions, accompanying documentaries and magazine programs as well as extensive multimedia reporting on the entire ORF culture fleet – from ORF 2, ORF III and Ö1 to ORF Salzburg and the joint broadcaster 3sat to entire ORF.at network and ORF-TELETEXT – from the festival city.
Weißmann: “Open the audience a window to the diverse festival events”
“The brilliant highlight of the annual ORF cultural summer is once once more the Salzburg Festival this year, with which the ORF has been a partner for 98 years. This year, too, we are very pleased to be able to offer the world’s most important cultural festival the largest media culture stage in the country with around 100 hours of programming and to open a window to the diverse festival events in Salzburg for the audience in Austria and beyond,” says ORF Director General Mag .Roland Weissmann. “The entire ORF broadcasting fleet broadcasts, produces and reports comprehensively and in the form of multimedia in the service of everyone in this country and makes those interested in culture and all those who want to become VIP guests at the Salzburg Festival. Communicating culture at the highest level in a low-threshold and barrier-free manner is an essential concern of the ORF as the public broadcaster of society: Culture for everyone in an ORF for everyone! I would like to thank the Salzburg Festival, UNITEL, all other partners, participants and employees for their commitment, which enables us to present such an extensive program package in challenging times like these.”
Haslauer: “Exemplary and highly popular form of conveying art and culture”
“I would like to congratulate the ORF and the Salzburg Festival on the long and successful partnership. Thank you very much for the media processing, support and the great performance of technology of the highest perfection from ORF for the exemplary and highly popular form of communicating art and culture at the Salzburg Festival. In this way, the ORF supports the appeal of the festival far beyond our borders,” emphasizes Governor Dr. Wilfried Haslauer.
Hinterhäuser: “A contribution that cannot be overestimated”
Markus Hinterhäuser, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival: “The ORF makes a contribution that cannot be overestimated to make the Salzburg Festival program accessible to all those who have no opportunity to experience our performances on site. We are grateful to be able to continue this cooperation, which has existed since the 1920s, with the transmission of a large number of festival events this year.”
Among the guests at the ORF festival reception were, among others, the Salzburg Festival concert director Florian Wiegand, star soprano Asmik Grigorian, the members of the board of trustees Jürgen Meindl (head of the art and culture section in the Federal Chancellery) and Christian Kircher (managing director of the Bundestheater-Holding), the board of directors of the Friends of the Salzburg Festival Siegbert Stronegger, Managing Director Ernst Buchrucker on the part of ORF’s main co-production partner UNITEL, the project manager Katharina Swoboda (Head of Communications Siemens) responsible for the joint cooperation Siemens Fest>Spiel>Nachten, also the former Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein, the culture manager Sabine Haag (Art History Museum Vienna), Johanna Rachinger (Austrian National Library) and Danielle Spera (member of the Leopold Museum private foundation), the board of directors of the Wiener Symphoniker and former ORF general director Alexander Wrabetz with “Golden Note” initiator and presenter Leona König, violinist Lidia Baich with Tenor and husband Andreas Schager, the film producers Mucky Degn and Hannes Schalle, DDSG boss Wolfgang Fischer and many more. On the part of the ORF, the following also took part: program director Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz, radio director Ingrid Thurnher, technical director Harald Kräuter, Salzburg state director Waltraud Langer, ORF III program manager and head of coordination of cultural programs ORF Peter Schöber, Kathrin Zierhut-Kunz, commercial director ORF III, ORF foundation board chairman Lothar Lockl, the moderators and commentators Teresa Vogl, Peter Schneeberger, Romy Seidl, Martin Ferdiny, Peter Fässlacher, Heinz Sichrovsky, Raffaela Schaidreiter, Alexandra Meissnitzer and many others
“Macbeth” with Asmik Grigorian’s debut as Lady Macbeth on Saturday live with a time delay on ORF 2
The next big ORF broadcast from the Salzburg Festival is already on the program tomorrow, Saturday, July 29, live with a time delay at 8:15 p.m. on ORF 2: the premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s early work “Macbeth” in a new production by Krzysztof Warlikowski , in which Philippe Jordan conducted the Vienna Philharmonic instead of Franz Welser-Möst, who was unable to attend due to illness. In the bloody story regarding a tragic ruling couple who conquered the royal throne of Scotland through several murders, Vladislav Sulimsky takes on the role of General Macbeth, and Asmik Grigorian makes her debut as Lady Macbeth.
Further details and dates for the opulent ORF Salzburg focus are available at presse.ORF.at or tv.ORF.at. An overview of all Ö1 concert dates and contributions is also available at available.
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