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Salzburg Festival

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Gianluca Capuano

Set designer

Set designer (+3)

Michael Levine

Costume designer

Klaus Bruns

Choreographer

Choreographer (+3)

Otto Pichler

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+3)

Franck Evin

Video

Video (+1)

Rocafilm

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+1)

Olaf A. Schmitt

Chorus

Il Canto di Orfeo

Orchestra

Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco

Haus für Mozart

Stage director

Stage director (+8)

Barrie Kosky

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Cecilia Bartoli

Arachne

Eurydice

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Léa Desandre

Echo

Statua

Myrrha

Countertenor (+8)

Philippe Jaroussky

Narcissus

Pygmalion

Mezzo-soprano

Angela Winkler

Orpheus

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+3)

Jacopo Facchini

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Nadezhda Karyazina

Minerva

Nutricen

Juno

Dancer

Rachele Chinellato

Dancers

Jia Bao Beate Chu

Martje de Mol

Fanny De-Ponti

Matt Emig

Dancer (+1)

Claudia Greco

Alessio Marchini

Prince Mihai

Rouven Pabst

Felix Schnabel

Rens Stigter

Soprano

Jiayu Jin

Choir Soloist

Laura Andreini

Tenor (+1)

Stefano Gambarino

Teresa Royo

Antonio Vivaldi is one of the most famous and fabled musicians to have come from Venice, but for a long time he only garnered recognition as a composer of instrumental works. When Cecilia Bartoli released the first of her hit albums dedicated to Vivaldi in 1999, she ushered in a Vivaldi renaissance that revealed the full breadth of his mastery. For the 2025 Whitsun Festival, Vivaldi’s virtuosic music will be interwoven with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, of which a popular edition illustrated with 52 woodcuts was produced in the Venetian workshop of Lucantonio Giunta in 1497. The Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, who likely wrote his Metamorphoses sometime between 1 and 8 AD, set out to explore the constant transformation of everything in existence in a mythological poem that has since inspired the themes and motifs of major artworks. Ovid called his work a ‘carmen perpetuum’, an everlasting song. Everything is in flux, always changing — gods, humans, animals…

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