Salzburg Easter Festival Announces 2026 Season

The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced the 2026 season.From 2026 onwards, the Berliner Philharmoniker will again be holding their traditional Easter Festival in Salzburg, the town where Herbert von Karajan founded this Festival in 1967. The season will begin a new ring cycle that will be seen over the next five years.

Here is a look at the vocal performances.Kirill Petrenko conducts Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold.” Christian Gerhaher stars alongside Gihoon Kim, Thomas Atkins, Brenton Ryan, Leigh Melrose, Thomas Cilluffo, Le Bu, Patrick Guetti, Catriona Morison, Sarah Brady, Jasmin White, Louise Foor, Yajie Zhang, and Jess Dandy.



Performance Dates: March 27- April 6, 2026Daniel Harding conducts Haydn’s “The Creation” with Hanna-Elisabeth Muller, Andrew Staples, and Konstantin Krimmel.Performance Dates: March 28- April 5, 2026Kirill Petrenko conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Jacquelyn Wagner, Golda Schultz, Liv Redpath, Beth Taylor, Fleur Barron, Benjamin Bruns, Gihoon Kim and Le Bu.

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