Salzburg Festival 2008

The important Salzburg Festival, famous because of the amount of quality concerts, operas and theatre performances, for the 2008 edition will takes place in the Austrian city from 26 of July to 31 of August. The main topic of this year edition of Salzburg Festival is taken from the opera Song of Solomon: "for love is as strong as death. All the concerts, operas and theatre performances are going to pursue this concept.

The first seven opera premieres, at the House of Mozart, are introduced by Don Giovanni, with the conduction of Bertrand de Billy and the production by Claus Guth. The worldwide famous Italian director Riccardo Muti will conduce Verdis Othello and The Magic Flute, repeating the 2006 performance (year 2006 was the so called Mozart year).
Romeo and Juliette will be performed by Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazn. The other pieces will be: at the House for Mozart, Rusalka by Antonin Dvorks, at the Large Festival Hall Bla Bartk's Bluebeard's Castle and Irmingard or the Power of Fate by the Austrian brass band, Mnozil Brass and Bernd Jeschek at the Republic.

If you are an opera fan, you cannot miss this amazing festival in this beautiful city. The atmosphere, especially in these days, is unique. You can take a look at this page with many appartamenti Salisburgo available for that period. So, you can book your perfect accommodation to fully enjoy these interesting events.

Talking about the concert program, it will be focused on the series of concerts Continent Sciarrino (on the works of the Sicilian composer Salvatore Sciarrino) and Schubert Scenes. Both are referring to this year concept.

Going out at night from your Salisburgo appartamento, you can watch on the cathedral Square the play Everyman. The cast will be almost the same as last year performance except Sophie von Kessel in the role of Peter Simonischek's paramour. Under the commission of the Festival organization, Dimitr Dinev will adapt the piece Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and will take place The Sad Face / Happy Face trilogy by the Begian Needcompany. These two represent new performed act on this year programme such as Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers (performed on Perner Island) and Harper Regan by Simon Stephen.

Online you can have more information in the site of the festival (salzburgfestival.com), and, to book your accommodation during the days of the festival, in this site in which you can find your appartamento Salisburgo.