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Wagner, Verdi and Buddhism at Salzburg music festival
View(s):SALZBURG, Austria / Salzburg (AFP) -The 93rd world-famous Salzburg Festival devoted to classical music, opera and drama opened Friday, with this year Wagner and Verdi in focus as well as a sprinkling of Buddhist music.
As part of events worldwide in 2013 marking 200 years since their births, Salzburg will see performances of Wagner’s “The Mastersingers of Nuremberg” and “Rienzi” and of “Don Carlo” and “Falstaff” by Verdi.
Organisers in 2012 paid particular attention to spiritual music, and this year works by Catholic and Protestant composers feature alongside traditional and recent Japanese music inspired by Buddhism.
Others of the 500 concerts over the next five weeks include three Haydn oratorios and the Mozart operas.
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