Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise at the Salzburg Festival: An Existential Masterpiece
The Salzburg Festival marks the 800th anniversary of the death of Francis of Assisi with a major new staging of Olivier Messiaen’s monumental opera Saint François d’Assise, offering audiences a rare, meditative endurance experience that stretches across more than six hours of performance time. According to cultural festival programmers, the production transforms the sprawling Felsenreitschule … Read more