Salzburg Festival
The genius of Romeo Castellucci
Birds do not sing. They bleep and rattle and buzz like a dial-up modem. That we consider what comes out…
Children have the Proms. Grown-ups head to Salzburg. Snob summer
Salzburg Festival doesn’t mess about. The offerings this year include an adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain in Lithuanian, a…
Child’s play
‘Germany’s greatest artistic asset, its music, is in danger,’ warned The Spectator in June 1937. Reporting from the leading new-music…
Swanky, stale and sullen
The summer music festival has had its day, says Norman Lebrecht
Work in progress
The Salzburg Festival’s reputation might largely be one of cultural conservatism, but it made an impressive commitment to new works…
