18 April 2025 Salzburg

“Wounds and wonders” is the motto of this year’s Easter Festival. “He was wounded for our transgressions...and with his stripes we are healed”, says the prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament. , and the main character Elijah, in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s probably most popular oratorio, does not stop warning his people about those transgressions right from his almost shocking first appearance at the beginning of this oratorio.