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Austria’s Salzburg Festival has announced its summer 2023 performance lineup. The festival opens July 19 and runs through August 31. There will be seven operas, including new productions, revivals, and concert performance.

The three new productions are Weinberg’s “Idiot,” Prokofiev’s “The Gambler,” and Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann. The revival of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” reworked by Romeo Castellucci, and Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito,” performed by Cecilia Bartoli, artistic director of the Salzburg Pentecostal Festival, will also be presented at the Summer Festival.

In addition, two works will be performed in concert format. Richard Strauss’ “Capriccio” will be performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Thielemann, and Thomas’ “Hamlet” will be performed by the Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Bertrand de Billy.

Conducting the concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the “resident orchestra” of the Festival, are Herbert Blomstedt, Andris Nelsons, Riccardo Muti, Gustavo Dudamel, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

The lineup of artists for recitals and other performances is as impressive as usual, with Pierre-Laurent Emard, Igor Levitt, Evgeny Kissin, Renaud Capuçon, András Schiff, Grigory Sokolov, Arkadij Volodos, and Anne-Sophie Mutter among the artists.

The guest orchestras are the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra（let by Maxim Pascal）, Le Concert des Nations（let by Jordi Savall）, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra（let by Daniel Barenboim）, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra（let by Klaus Makela）, Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchestra（let by Ingo Metzmacher）, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra（let by Kirill Petrenko）.

Another guest orchestra is the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which will welcome Simon Rattle as its new chief conductor beginning in the 2023/2024 season, prior to which Rattle will conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”.

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