Austrian media are swooning over a morning Wagner concert in Salzburg by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by the Met’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
‘This is the real Viennese Wagner,’ they sigh.
Yannick is due to conduct the Strauss concert on New Year’s Day 2026.
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