The rapprochement of the elites

Moscow first fell into the list of cities where the Salzburg festival made a presentation of its summer program announced a week ago . She went to the residence of the Austrian ambassador. In front of Moscow, the President of the festival Helga Rabe-Stadler and the new quartermaster Marcus Kh Intekhoizer visited Berlin, ahead of them-Munich and Seoul.

Over the past couple of decades, Russian musical forces at the Main Festival of the world have settled well, but this year everything is very serious. The opera - that is, the main one - part of Salzburg is not opened by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as usual, but the team either from the tundra, or from Siberia - in general, from Perm. The Western press is difficult to give Russian geography outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg, but the names of Theodore Krentzis, recently chosen by the Opernwelt magazine, “ Musicaeterna ’s team, is now in the hearing.

The Perm Orchestra and the choir come to Mozart’s homeland for as many as five weeks with their specialists, among which the same Mozart is part of. The releases of three operas on the libretto and ponte recorded on Sony just rang out Classical , and now in Salzburg they, along with the international team of singers, will begin for one of the last two operas of Mozart - “Mercy of Titus”. Kurentzis again works in tandem with the great Peter Sellar, with whom the “Queen of the Indians” in Perm and “Iolanta/Persephone” in Madrid were already made. Titus is the first opera premiere of the huge festival (July 21 - August 30, the budget for 2017 - 61.69 million euros, 222,500 tickets, 15 sites, 195 musical and theatrical events, including five new opera diversions, two concert operas and three in semi -subject), it will be held seven times. This Perm presence will not be limited to: Mozart’s requiem, a concert for Choir Schnita, the first symphony of Malera, Berg's violin concert with Kopachinskaya, night, candles. However, about the fact that the fire services of Salzburg will allow candles, Mrs. Rabe-Stadler still doubts.

In the love of Krentzis, Sellarus and Russian culture, Kh Interchoyser, who participated in the Diaghilev festival as a pianist (he played Voskolskaya in Perm, plays Messiana in Salzburg), is the direct heir to Gerard Mortier , the legendary Salzburgian quarter of the 90s. Conviction in the active social position of art and the ability to build smart thematic roll calls between programs also relaxes them. One of the main tasks, the current festival announces a study of the nature of power. It is proposed to trace this topic from the operas of Monteverdi (all three will be performed by John Eliot Gardiner) to Lira Aribert Ryman, written in 1978. Separately highlighted programs around the music of Gerard Grise and Dmitry Shostakovich. His “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district” is put by Andreas Crigenburg, Maris Jansons conducts.

A mandatory set of top shifts is also present. Anna Netrebko with her husband Yusif Eyvazov is sung in Aida, and Riccardo Muti conducts her, Cherlia Bartoli sings in Ariodante, Placido Domingo - in Two Foscari. However, equal from the art world are added to the stars of the musical sky, and this is an equally noticeable gesture of an intensive care unit than strangers with Mozart at the opening of the festival. "Aida" puts the Iranian video artist Shirin Neshat; Kh Intchoizer promised a new look from the East to the whole opera. And the South African artist William Kentridge, together with Vladimir Yurovsky, is released by Berg behind the remote control.

The rapprochement of the elites of different types of art is in parallel with the rapprochement of the elites of financial, and these processes are not as far from each other as it seems. Three years ago, the Society of Russian Friends of the Salzburg Festival was organized. His president, developer, collector of contemporary art, the owner of the Vienna art fair Dmitry Aksenov presented at a presentation at the Austrian ambassador the first Russian company, which included in the prestigious club of Salzburg sponsors, Novatek. So in the festival booklet, its name stands on one page with Titus's Mercy. These are the time.