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A dispatch from the 2024 Salzburg Easter Festival: Celebrating mastery and orchestral brilliance

La Gioconda is infrequently performed because of its complicated plot, demanding vocal requirements, giant choral forces, and complex staging.

|ByIRVING SPITZ
LUCA SALSI (Barnaba) and Anna Netrebko (La Gioconda) in Ponchielli’s ‘La Gioconda.’
ADRIANA GONZÁLEZ (the Countess), Sabine Devieilhe (Susanna), and Lea Desandre (Cherubino) in Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro.’

Operatic extravaganza unveiled at 2023 Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival continues to be a celebration of artistic exploration and musical excellence. 

|ByIRVING SPITZ
BASTION OF old-world elegance: Salzburg.

The Salzburg Festival: Music fest going strong after over 100 years

The original idea of the festival was conceived in 1920 by an illustrious trio comprising stage director Max Reinhardt, novelist, and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and composer Richard Strauss.

|ByIRVING SPITZ
EYLON ALMOG (center) and Maccabi Tel Aviv put up a valiant effort against Red Bull Salzburg on Tuesday night, even taking a lead into the break, but the Austrian club pulled out a 2-1 away victory in the Champions League Playoff first leg at Bloomfield Stadium.

Maccabi Tel Aviv can’t hold on vs Salzburg

Early Bitton tally for host yellow-and-blue doesn’t hold up as Austrians rally for pair of 2nd-half markers.

|ByJOSHUA HALICKMAN

Jazz & The City: Autumn leaves in Salzburg

Salzburg's jazz festival took place October 16-20.

OCTOBER 27, 2019
DUDU TASSA had the crowd rocking and dancing with his offering of rock-laced Arabic numbers.

Summer symphonies in Salzburg

After 99 years, the Salzburg Festival, held in the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, continues to excel and surprise.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
MOZART’S ‘IDOMENEO’ with Ying Fang as Ilia

Make the most of a long weekend in Salzburg

With a historic city center, justly famed for its Baroque architecture, fantastic fortress and beautiful Alpine setting, Salzburg is a jewel of a city.

JULY 21, 2019
THE RIVER Enns, Jagersee Lake and the view from Hohensalzburg Fortress are among the enchanting sights in Salzburg, Austria.

One man is cleaning Salzburg's 388 memorial plaques for Nazi victims

The goal is to spruce up their weathered appearance, so that people “will notice them better.”

JULY 4, 2018
ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
A view of some “stolpersteine” in Berlin, Aug. 2012