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

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