Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg: Mozart Week 2024

The first festival of the year starts in a few days: Mozart Week! From January 24 to February 4, we will celebrate the genius with top-class orchestral concerts, fine chamber music, great opera, theater, puppetry, film, talk and much more. Mozart's oeuvre is the shining focus for Artistic Director Rolando Villazón, the soul and inspiration of the world's most important Mozart festival, but is harmoniously interwoven with works by other composers. In 2024, Mozart's most legendary rival, Antonio Salieri, will take to the stage at the Mozart Week. "No contemporary is mentioned in the same breath as Mozart as often as Salieri. The ambivalent relationship between the two contains many myths and stories that we want to tell not only in concerts, but also as a gripping drama in opera, drama, film and other exciting formats in a variety of ways," explains Rolando Villazón.

Peter Shaffer's play "Amadeus" will premiere at the Salzburg State Theatre, a new production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Mozart and Salieri" will be created as an artistic puppet show with live music accompaniment at the Marionettentheater Salzburg and Miloš Forman's Oscar-winning film adaptation "Amadeus" is also part of the Salieri focus. In addition to this program focus, there is also a semi-staged opera performance of "La clemenza di Tito", orchestral concerts, chamber music, films, guided tours, talks and much more. In addition to compositions by Salieri and his pupils Hummel, Schubert, Beethoven and Franz Xaver Mozart, works by Hadyn and Reicha can also be heard.

A top-class line-up of artists is expected in 2024: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Igor Levit, Joana Mallwitz, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Sol Gabetta, Jordi Savall, Sir András Schiff, Lahav Shani, Emmanuel Pahud, Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Avi Avital as well as ensembles and orchestras such as the Danish Chamber Orchestra with Ádám Fischer, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Kirill Gerstein, the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini with Sabine Meyer, the Hagen Quartet and, of course, the Vienna Philharmonic.