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Culture Watch: Salonen conducts Janacek at Salzburg Festival

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Janácek: ‘The Makropulos Case

(Salzburg Festival)

When leaving the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen said that he figured he would agree to perhaps one major opera production a year somewhere in the world. This season it is Janácek’s “Makropulos Case” at the Salzburg Festival in a new production by the quirky Swiss director Christoph Marthaler and starring Angela Denoke as a 300-year-old life-weary opera singer. The great Vienna Philharmonic is in the pit.

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The production opens Aug. 10, and the Aug. 13 performance will be broadcast live. You can catch it over the Internet on ORF 1 (a channel of Austrian Radio) by clicking here or on Radio France here at 10:30 a.m. Los Angeles time. The production also will be filmed for eventual release on DVD.

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