Word: salzburger
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...first time, both parties in Austria's shaky coalition government seemed to harbor serious doubts about the President. Fritz Rucker, vice chairman of the pro-Waldheim People's Party in Salzburg, quit to protest what he called "false slavish loyalty" toward Waldheim. Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, who heads the Socialists, threatened to resign unless the furor over Waldheim died down...
...some 30 years, Salzburg's fortunes have been in the hands of the formidable Karajan, the dominant conductor of the postwar generation. Now 79, he is debilitated by a series of illnesses and must clutch a special railing as he makes his way to the podium. Those looking for clues to music's most hotly debated question -- Karajan's eventual successor at the Berlin Philharmonic -- find Salzburg an ideal place to begin speculation...
...likely is someone like Muti (whose festival poster had him clad in a black leather jacket, a la Karajan in his race-car days), or James Levine, who is cutting back his administrative duties at the Metropolitan Opera to expand his repertory. Certainly Levine's reputation has flourished in Salzburg in recent years. This season he is supervising an elegant The Marriage of Figaro, in substantially the same staging as Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's New York and Paris versions, and a daring new production of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, also by Ponnelle...
...Iberian setting vanished to reveal a cosmic firmament, quenching the earthly fires of lust in a metaphysical supernova of destruction. The normally bubbly postlude took place on a desolate, Pirandellian stage, on which six characters wandered in search of a composer. That composer, of course, was Mozart, and in Salzburg he is never very far away...
...glittering Salzburg Festival, a controversial Moses und Aron and a gleaming Don Giovanni are the talk of the town...