Heinrich Spängler Helga Rabl-Stadler House for Mozart Peter Ruzicka Jürgen Flimm King Arthur Julia Jones "The Herrmanns" Nicola Ulivieri Der Rosenkavalier Miah Persson Peter Pabst Die tote Stadt War and Peace I Capuleti Peter Simonischek Jens Harzer Tankred Dorst Electronic City Guest orchestras RSO Vienna Benjamin Schmid Sir Simon Rattle La Bartoli Rupert Huber Myrna Bustani

A maestra for Mozart

Julia Jones conducts Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Julia Jones conducts Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Salzburg Festival 2004. Over the past few years the English conductor, who in the coming summer will also conduct a Mozart Matinee, has acquired an excellent reputation as a Mozart specialist. Since the 2001/2002 season she has regularly conducted Die Zauberflöte at the Vienna State Opera, at the Frankfurt Opera she directed performances of Così fan tutte and at Genoa opera house Le nozze di Figaro. Julia Jones received her musical training in Manchester, Bristol and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She began her professional career as a répétiteur in Cologne and Stuttgart.

Julia Jones conducts Mozart’s Entführung

She soon made a name for herself as a performer of new music.
She worked together with Hans Werner Henze and in 1991 conducted the world premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s music-theatre piece Perseus und Andromeda, which brought her international acclaim. After holding positions as kapellmeister in Ulm and Darmstadt Julia Jones was appointed principal conductor to the theatre in Basle where she was responsible for new productions of Verdi’s Otello, Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and Mozart’s Idomeneo.

Julia Jones makes her opera debut at the Salzburg Festival conducting Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She is stepping in for her colleague Marcello Viotti who has withdrawn from his contract for personal reasons.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Revival

Conductor Julia Jones • Stage director Stefan Herheim • Stage and costume design Gottfried Pilz • Video fettFilm • Lighting design Konrad Lindenberg • Chorus master Rupert Huber • Dramaturge Wolfgang Willaschek

Bassa Selim ***** • Konstanze Regina Schörg • Blonde Laura Aikin • Belmonte Christoph Strehl • Pedrillo Dietmar Kerschbaum • Osmin Peter Rose

Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

Premiere 25 July, 7 p.m.

Further performances 27,
29, 31 July and 2 August, 7 p.m.

Kleines Festspielhaus

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