2023-06-21 10:02:04
Summer is currently casting its shadows without any cooling shadows, and with it the hot summer of culture, the details of which ORF presented on Wednesday. Traditionally, the cohort of the festival between Neusiedler and Lake Constance can be experienced on local TV and radio. 500 hours of cultural program from Bregenz to Mörbisch, from Grafenegg to Salzburg are once more in the plan. In total, 70 TV and 160 radio broadcasts are planned.
The starting shot will be fired on June 23 with the time-delayed Sommernachtgala from Grafenegg on ORF 2, for which director Rudolf Buchbinder was able to win star soprano Asmik Grigorian, among others. “Standing still is behind”, the pianist, who has just been extended as artistic director up to and including 2026, exclaimed as the motto for his festival tour.
In the following weeks, the ORF will also be showing the house opera “Ernani” from the Bregenz Festival (6 August), from the Styriarte Beethoven’s “Eroica” (14 July) and “Carmen” from the St. Margarethen quarry (12 August). July), which can be compared to the semi-scenic “Carmen” at the Schloßbergbühne Kasematten Graz (20 August). The Sommerarena Baden is on board with the operetta “Frühlingsparade” (30 July), the Schloss-Spiele Kobersdorf with Raimund’s “The Alpine King and the Misanthrope” (13 August). And last but not least, of course, the Salzburg Festival will come into its own once more, including “Falstaff” (August 19 in 3sat) and Brahms’ “Deutsche Requiem” with the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann (July 30).
And last but not least, the presumed highlight of this year’s Salzburg opera season, Verdi’s “Macbeth”, also with Asmik Grigorian, can be seen on July 29th. “I actually have the feeling that I’m doing something very important in Salzburg,” said the 42-year-old Lithuanian, paying tribute to the festival location: “That’s all the more important to me because my work is my life.” Because even following years of shared experience, the following applies to them: “I feel the magic of the place when I’m in Salzburg.”
Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser also emphasized that the Salzburg Festival played a special role in times of multiple crises. “The world is out of joint,” quoted the festival director “Hamlet”: “But the problems are not insoluble.” Accordingly, a cultural platform like Salzburg also plays an important role in society as a whole. “The art we deal with has to do with politics – not with day-to-day politics, it’s really too bleak. But with the human condition,” emphasized Hinterhäuser. It’s regarding “measuring the world,” to quote Daniel Kehlmann.
But genres apart from classical music, theater and exploring the world also have their place at the ORF cultural summer, for example when “The big end-of-school concert with Hubert von Goisern” can be seen on June 29th, numerous concerts from the Woodstock of brass bands from Upper Austria between the end of June and broadcast at the beginning of July, or a whole “Day of Rock” is celebrated on ORF III on August 15th. And between June 29th and July 2nd, literature fans will be able to watch the Bachmann Prize reading competition from Klagenfurt.
“We want culture to be an essential pillar of the ORF – it’s not just a job, it’s a passion,” emphasized culture director Martin Traxl. “It’s one of the jobs that’s the most fun,” said ORF Director General Roland Weißmann: “In total, we’re investing over 100 million euros here.” Now, at least, the ORF’s funding is secured in the long term, although it goes without saying that “sustainable” does not mean “exuberant”. “But we will continue to spend at least as much on culture as before,” Weissmann promised.
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