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Salzburg Easter Festival 2010
With the Götterdämmerung, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic complete the realisation of Richard Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen, directed by Stéphane Braunschweig in 2010.
Between Tradition and the Modern
The Development of Salzburg’s Easter Festival
It all started in 1967. Herbert von Karajan founded the Salzburg Easter Festival, and it established a name for itself from the very beginning as one of the most exclusive, artistically excellent and internationally renowned music festivals around the world. Ever since, the focuses have been a lavish opera production at the Großes Festspielhaus and the great orchestral repertoire.
“Ring des Nibelungen” 2007-2010
Das Rheingold, the first part of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen, was realised by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic for the Easter Festival in 2007 in a project extending over four years. Stéphane Braunschweig is the director of this co-production with the Festival d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence. The tetralogy started in summer 2006 in Aix-en-Provence and comes to an end with two performances of Götterdämmerung at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2010.
