This event, featuring the Mozarteum vocal Ensemble and the Capella dell'halla, opens the new Alpine Baroque concert series at Salzburg Cathedral. The title "On Galleries and Balconies" derives from the historical custom of the 17th century, when vocal and instrumental groups were distributed throughout the nave following the Italian model. This results in exciting spatial sound effects in works by Salzburg Cathedral Kapellmeister Andreas Hofer and HIF Biber.

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In 1821, the unemployed wigmaker Johann Christian Woyzeck stabs his sweetheart to death in Leipzig. The trial against him drags on for years until, after his sanity has been examined twice, all appeals for clemency are rejected and Woyzeck is sentenced to death. Alban Berg saw Georg Büchner's dramatization of this case at the Vienna Kammerspiele in 1914. In the face of the outbreak of the World War I, the signs of human denaturation, which Berg addresses in his opera without turning them into blatant social criticism, became more evident.

Andreas Hofer

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Jun 2 - Jul 1, 2026

Wozzeck · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

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Oct 10, 2025

AlpineBaroque · Universität Mozarteum Salzburg

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