Admin

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Elena Tsallagova

Contralto

Lucile Richardot

Alto

Tenor

Richard Croft

Bass

José Coca Loza

Conductor

Marc Minkowski

Stage director

Robert Wilson

Nicola Panzer

Set designer

Stephanie Engeln

Costume designer

Carlos J. Soto

Video designer

Tomek Jeziorski

Lighting designer

John Torres

Chorus master

Walter Zeh

Dramaturge

Konrad Kuhn

Salzburger Festspiele

Orchestra

Les Musiciens du Louvre

Others

Philharmonia Chorus

German

Messiah -  (Messiah HWV 56)

Salzburg

Austria

Haus für Mozart

Known as the creator of amazing images, director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent staging of Mozart's adaptation of Handel's Messiah. Mozart was commissioned by Gottfried van Swieten to modernize the score fifty years after Handel's popular composition (1742), mainly by arranging the wind parts and partially recomposing them.
With Marc Minkowski, a conductor has been won who knows perfectly how to combine the baroque style with the tonal possibilities of an orchestra from the classical period such as the Musiciens du Louvre. The excellent solo quartet with Elena Tsallagova, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Richard Croft and José Coca Loza fits perfectly into Wilson's enormous flood of images. "A total work of art," praises Opernglas.

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