Festival Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about the 2025 Salzburg Easter Festival.
Artistic Director Nikolaus Bachler presents a particularly diverse programme for
the Salzburg Easter Festival 2025 - for the first time in the festival’s history, four conductors
and three orchestras will be featured. At the center is a new production of
Modest Mussorgsky’s monumental drama »Khovanshchina«, staged by British actor
and director Simon McBurney. Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct staged opera for
the first time in six years and will be at the helm of the Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra. The Finnish conductor and composer will also lead two concert programmes
with music by Jean Sibelius, Gustav Mahler and himself. Three further
concerts with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Mozarteum Orchestra will
be conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, Maxim Emelyanychev and Tabita Berglund.