Hugo Shirley

Strauss and Hofmannsthal deserve better from the Salzburg Festival

<p class="p1">They founded it, after all: these productions of Charlotte Salomon and Der Rosenkavalier are no way to repay them</p>

  • Comments

  • Charlotte Salomon; Der Rosenkavalier

    Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival’s reputation might largely be one of cultural conservatism, but it made an impressive commitment to new works when it announced in 2011 that it had commissioned four operas, to be unveiled at the rate of one a year between 2013 and 2016.

The first was to have been by György Kurtág, but he failed to deliver on time.

Already a subscriber? Log in

Keep reading with a free trial

Subscribe and get your first month of online and app access for free. After that it’s just £1 a week.

There’s no commitment, you can cancel any time.

Or

Unlock more articles

REGISTER

Read next

Trending

Steerpike

Remainers proven wrong about Brexit security risks

Steerpike
Another day, another Remoaner myth destroyed. Today’s report on International Partnerships by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee finds that ‘Brexit has not had a negative impact on intelligence co-operation between the UK and EU member states’. How very curious – not least because of the incessant warnings spouted by Brexit pessimists of the very opposite

Also in Arts Reviews

Also by Hugo Shirley

Latest

Comments

Don't miss out

Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. Subscribe to leave a comment.

Already a subscriber? Log in