Anna Netrebko in Iolanta at the Salzburger Festspiele 2011

Kurier announces that Markus Hinterhäuser - since September of this year, interim director of the Salzburg Festival - has presented today the Programme of the upcoming Summer Salzburg Festival 2011.

One of the highlights of the Summer Salzburg Festival 2011 are two opera concert performance evenings at the Grosses Festspielhaus on 15. and 20. August 2011. The programme consists of two one-act operas, rarely performed together: "Le Rossignol" by Igor Stravinsky and "Iolanta" by Piotr I. Tchaikovsky.

Anna Netrebko sings the title role in Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" opposite Piotr Beczala as Count Vaudémont, John Relyea as King René and Alexei Markov as Robert. Ivor Bolton conducts the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.

Salzburger Festspiele 2011
Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Monday 15. Aug 2011 15:00
Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Saturday 20. Aug 2011 20:30

Igor Stravinsky • Le Rossignol
Lyric tale in three acts
Text by Igor Stravinsky and Stepan Stepanovich Mitusov after Hans Christian Andersen’s tale The Nightingale

CAST
Julia Novikova, The Nightingale
Julia Lezhneva, The Cook
Antonio Poli, The Fisherman
Yuri Vorobiev, The Bonze
Maria Radner, Death

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Iolanta
Lyric opera in one act
Text by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky after Henrik Hertz’s play King René’s Daughter

CAST
Anna Netrebko, Iolanta, blind daughter of King René
John Relyea, René, King of Provence
Piotr Beczala, Count Vaudémont, Burgundian knight
Alexei Markov, Robert, Herzog von Burgund
Antonio Poli, Alméric, armour-bearer to King René
Yuri Vorobiev, Bertrand, doorkeeper to the castle
Maria Radner, Martha, Iolanta’s nursemaid

Ivor Bolton, Conductor
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Jörn H. Andresen, Chorus Master