Continuing nearly 100 years of partnership: Salzburg Festival and ORF sign framework agreement

2024-07-27 16:55:18

Yesterday (July 26), Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen grandly opened the 2024 Salzburg Festival at the Felsenreitschule, which was broadcast live on ORF 2, 3sat and ORF ON. The celebrations continue today, Saturday 27 July, with ORF’s traditional annual festival reception in Salzburg, where General Director Roland Weißmann attended the evening TV premiere of “Everyman” (evening At 8:15, ORF 2 and ORF) ON) invited the DomQuartier’s residence next to the Domplatz, where the next live performance of the new “Aktivermann” took place immediately afterwards. Hosted by Martin Traxl, Head of Culture at ORF-TV and attended by some 150 high-profile guests from the world of arts and culture, media, business and politics, the event focused on the successful collaboration between the public broadcaster and the festival, which again this year takes part in a tri-media focus activities, including approximately 100 program hours (see presse.orf.at for details). A special cause for celebration is a new framework agreement through which the two institutions continue their nearly 100-year partnership into the future.

ORF General Manager Roland Weißmann, Salzburg Director Markus Hinterhäuser and his Commercial Director Lukas Crepaz, State Governor Wilfried Haslauer, Festival President Kristina Hammer and the entire ORF management with Commercial Director Eva Schindlauer, Program Director Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz, Radio Director Ingrid signed Thurnher and technical director Harald Krauter, as well as country director Waltraud Langer, Ö1 boss Silvia Lahner and ORF III managing directors Peter Schöber and Kathrin Zierhut-Kunz, “ordinary man” Philipp Hochmair also did not miss out and graduated – because of his The own Sake Domplatz has appeared in costume and mask – for a brief visit. He summed up his performance at Domplatz in three words: “Intense, erotic, explosive!”

Weißmann: “With the new framework agreement we continue our nearly 100-year successful partnership”

“The Salzburg Festival and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation are two important pillars of the Austrian cultural state. ORF has a successful partnership of almost 100 years with probably the most important classical music festival in the world, and we are now offering it through a new The framework agreement extends this partnership and means that the Salzburg Festival, as a top content provider, will continue to be the highlight of the ORF cultural summer every year, giving everyone in Austria the opportunity to experience the wonderful music festival in person. Highlights. Roland Weismann “In 2024 we will once again present to our audiences approximately 100 hours of Salzburg television and radio programming, including live broadcasts and recordings of top operas and concerts, supporting documentaries, artist portraits, magazines program and detailed cultural coverage. I would like to thank everyone involved in this wonderful collaboration, especially the Salzburg Festival and our production and sales partner UNITEL, as well as all employees for their commitment.

Hinterhäuser: “Reaffirming our close partnership”

Salzburg Festival Director Markus Hinterhäuser emphasized: “The signing of this framework agreement is an affirmation of our close cooperation with ORF, which can look back on decades of proven tradition.”

Haslauer: “Always a success story” and “ORF is an indispensable ambassador for Salzburg”

“The collaboration between ORF and the Salzburg Festival has been a success story, ensuring that this world-famous cultural flagship of our country can be presented to all those interested in art and culture at the highest level through media and technology. Bring. With over 100 hours of programming during the Salzburg Festival, ORF is an indispensable ambassador for Salzburg, conveying its images to the world on the other. He brings culture into people’s living rooms. It can be said that the diverse ORF products express the fact that through the wonders of technology, the wonders of culture become readable, audible, visible and ultimately tangible to achieve human wonders. . Wilfried Haslauer.

Also present at the reception at the ORF Music Festival were Salzburg Festival Concert Director Florian Wiegand, Board of Directors Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg (Chairman of the Mozart Foundation) and Christian Kircher (Managing Director of the German Bundestheater Holding), among others.Siegbert Stronegger, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Fort Music Festival, Franz Patay, Managing Director of the United Stage Vienna, Stephan Pauly, Director of the Vienna Music Society, Alexander Wrabetz, Board of Directors of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Chairman of Rapid and former General Manager of ORF, together with Leona König, initiator and presenter of “Attention Golden”, Johanna Rachinger, Culture Manager (National Library of Austria), Bettina Leidl ( MuseumsQuartier), Danielle Spera (member of the Leopold Museum Private Foundation) and Katarzyna Lutecka (Amalthea Verlag), actor Sunnyi Melles, media manager Hans Mahr, media spokespersons for the Green Party and NEOS Eva Blimlinger and Henkrike Brandstötter, as well as the Green Party Culture spokesman Nikolaus Ganahl, Deputy Governor of Salzburg Stefan Schnöll (ÖVP), former Siemens board member and current Vice President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce Wolfgang Hesoun represented ORF main co-production partner UNITEL Magdalena Herbst (Head of Production) in charge of joint collaboration Siemens Fest> Game>Night Responsible Art Director, Siemens Art ProjectsDirectors André Turnheim, Stephan Frucht, Director of Everyman, Filmmaker Mucky Degn, Ing Ingrid Klingohr, Hannes Schalle and Tommy Schmiedle, and ORF Chief Producer Michael Krön, Vienna ORF RSO artistic director Angelika Möser, presenters and commentators Teresa Vogl, Romy Seidl-Laux, Peter Fässlacher, Raffaela Schaidreiter, board members Franz Medwenitsch, Herwig Hösele and Gerhard Berti, among others

ORF’s next program highlights at the 104th Salzburg Festival

On 26 July, following the opening of the Felsenreitschule broadcast live on ORF 2, 3sat and ORF ON, a concert performance of Richard Strauss’s “Capriccio” was broadcast live on Ö1 as the opera premiere of the season, “EverymanEverywoman – The first of four editions of Salzburg Festival Magazine (Friday, 26 July to 16 August, 6:30 pm, ORF 2, Dacapos from Sunday, 28 July, 7:50 pm , ORF III) The ORF program, which includes around 100 hours of Salzburg TV and radio programming, continues tonight (July 27) with the stage classic Everyman (8:15 pm, ORF 2 and 27:00) .

Tomorrow, Sunday 28 July at 11:03 am, Ö1 will broadcast live a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the musical direction of Herbert Blomstedt, playing Johannes Brahms Song of Destiny op. 54 for mixed choir and orchestra and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdi’s Lobgesang op. 52 – a symphonic cantata based on biblical texts. The next live TV broadcast, accompanied by Salzburg’s traditional “kulturMontag Spezial”, is scheduled for July 29 (10:30 pm, ORF 2 and ORF ON).

The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach (Friday, August 16, delayed live, 9:20 p.m., ORF 2; Saturday, August 31, 7:30 p.m., Ö1), Scher Guy Prokofiev’s first full-scale opera, The Player (Saturday, August 17, 7:30 p.m., Ö1; Saturday, August 24, 8:15 p.m., 3sat; Sunday, September 8, evening 11:15, ORF III) with star soprano Asmik Grigorian and next titled “RSO at the Salzburg Festival: Music as Resistance” (Tuesday, August 6, 11:20 pm, ORF 2) Recording of Luigi Dallapiccola’s short opera “Il prigioniero” as part of a guest performance evening at the Salzburg Festival with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, broadcast entirely on Ö1.

Asmik Grigorian is also the soloist in a concert conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, which can be heard at ORF III under the title “Vienna Philharmonic” Two Superstars” experience (live broadcast on Sunday, August 25, 8:15 pm). Other top concert dates in Salzburg include: “Vienna Philharmonic Concert: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9” (Sunday, August 11, 11 a.m.), conducted by Andris Nelsons, ORF 2 broadcast live, also on TV that day with the title “Mozart Festival” (9:10 p.m., ORF III) by the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra under its designated chief conductor Roberto Gonzalez A live time-shifted performance under the baton of Smonjas.

Kulturradio Ö1 will give a total of 18 concerts in Salzburg this year, 5 of which will be live, including another with the Vienna Philharmonic with Riccardo Muti on Thursday 15 August. matinee concert (live at 11:03 a.m.), and more concerts by the Mozart Orchestra with Ivor Bolton (Sunday, August 4, live at 11:03 a.m.) and Maxim Emelyanychev (on August 25 Sunday, live broadcast at 11:03 a.m.) or two guest performances by the Vienna ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra – 2023 Young Conductor Award winner in concert with Hankyeol Yoon on the podium (Tuesday, August 20, 7:00 p.m. 30), and an evening guest performance of a short opera with Luigi Dallapiccola under the direction of Maxime Pascal (Friday, August 2, 7:30 pm) Il prigioniero and Luigi Nono The oratorio “Il canto sospeso” – a farewell letter to soloists, choirs and orchestras sentenced to death in the European Resistance Movement, with Tobias Moretti as speaker.

For more details about operas, concerts, accompanying documentaries, artist portraits and conversations, magazine programs and detailed cultural coverage focused on ORF Salzburg, please visit presse.ORF.at. For an overview of all Ö1 concert dates and contributions, please see.

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