Salzburg Report

Not everyone in Europe is delighted with Regietheater. Renaud Machart is covering the Salzburg Festival for Le Monde, and he reviews what sound like atrocious productions of Haydn's Armida and Weber's Freischutz. (See link below.) Christof Loy's minimalist set for Haydn is a great wall of plywood. Markus Stenz places Weber's opera in a concrete basement. Peter Seiffert's Max and John Relyea's Kaspar are singled out for praise, but not much else is. Summing up, he says: "This is not enough in a music festival considered to be the world's most prestigious."

Le Monde.fr : Le théâtre s'en mêle à Salzbourg