October 9, 2025
Athens, GR 14 C
Expand search form
Blog

Salzburg loses conductor to ‘acute illness’

Salzburg loses conductor to ‘acute illness’

Lorenzeo Viotti has cancelled two concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic. Esa-Pekka Salonen, already in Salzburg for an opera, jumps in.

Press release:
To his great regret, Lorenzo Viotti has been forced to cancel his participation in the first two concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic due to acute illness.

The Salzburg Festival is grateful to Esa-Pekka Salonen for stepping in at short notice to conduct the concerts, with a slightly altered programme.

In the first half of the programme, Igor Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex will be performed as previously announced. In the second half of the concerts, Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique Op. 14 instead of Piotr I. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor Op. 36.

Esa-Pekka Salonen also conducts the opera new production One Morning Turns Into An Eternity.
https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/p/one-morning-turns-into-an-eternity-2025

The post Salzburg loses conductor to ‘acute illness’ appeared first on Slippedisc.

Previous Article

Sir Bryn Terfel in Recital at Tanglewood 

Next Article

Pianist Schiff lands 15 million yen

You might be interested in …

John Mayall, RIP

John Mayall, RIP

The widely acclaimed ‘father of British blues’ has died aged 90 in California, where he moved in the 1970s. His Bluesbreakers group is remembered chiefly for the couple of years in the mid-1960s when Eric […]

Second maestro scratches Tanglewood

Second maestro scratches Tanglewood

The loss of Esa-Pekka Salonen early in the festival was a serious blow. Now Zubin Mehta has pulled out. He has ‘personal reasons’ for not conducting Beethoven’s 9th symphony. Here’s the official notice: Regrettably, guest […]