Music
This year at the beginning of the Salzburg festival British conductor Ivor Bolton leads Mozarteumsorchester Salzburg performing a program of W. A. Mozart - Missa c-Moll, Adagio und Fuge für Streicher c-Moll, and Vesperae solennes de Confessore für Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel C-Dur. Ivor Bolton today is balancing his responsibilities as Chief Conductor of the Basel Sinfonieorchester, Artistic Director of the Teatro Real in Madrid, Chief Conductor of the Dresden Festival Orchestra and Conductor Laureat of the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg. In the UK he has been Music Director of English Touring Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, and Chief Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. His many recordings, apart from those with the Mozarteumorchester, include Monteverdi’s Poppea and Handel’s Xerces and Ariodante at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Shortly interviewed on the morning of festivals opening, conductor opens up about his 21 years of history in Salzburg festival and the situation this year that shook the classical music world as a whole.