Salzburger FestSpiele [ENA] The Salzburg Festival’s Übers Meer offers precisely the kind of programme that reminds us why a concert can feel like an intellectual voyage as much as a musical one. Conceived as a sea-crossing in sound, the programme gathers works associated with Odysseus, Arion, and Tancredi and places them within a larger meditation on travel, longing, transformation, and the unexpected encounters that shape human fate.   [Full story...]

Salzburger Festspiele [ENA] The concert of the famous Cecilia Bartoli’s Ciao, bella ciao at the Salzburg Festival promises to be far more than a concert: it is conceived as an inscenierte Zeitreise, a stylized journey through times and through the musical universe of one of the most captivating artists of our time. What emerges from the festival’s own presentation is not a conventional retrospective.   [Full story...]