白昼下的星光——2012年萨尔茨堡音乐节漫谈

Stars shining through bright nights:Some thoughts on the 2012 Salzburg Festival

七八月份,北半球进入盛夏,阳光明媚,天气炎热。在欧洲,一年当中雷打不动的假期也开始了。人们轮番休假,即便是邮局、长途汽车站等公共场所,也开始采用夏令作息时间。此时,想要在音乐厅、歌剧院看一场精彩的演出可没那么容易,因为音乐家们都度假去了,从7月中下旬开始不论是歌剧院,还是各大交响乐团都处于歇业状态,直到9月初。然而,音乐家们和乐迷们怎么耐得住寂寞,此时正是各大音乐节狂欢的时刻。乐手们在看风光,晒太阳之余,也不忘汇聚一堂,

On September 2,the 2012 Salzburg Festival drew to a close.Under a series of new policies implemented by new artistic director Alexander Pereira,a total of 278,978 from 71 countries visited Salzburg this summer(the city that normally has a population of 150,000),which marked the highest number of festival visitors in the past 92 years.Featured in the festival were opera stars Cecilia Bartoli,Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann,Andreas Scholl,Anne Sofie von Otter,and repertoire presented included Ariadne auf Naxos,La Boheme and Giulio Cesare in Egitto.In fact,La Boheme was a co-production by the Salzburg Festival,Shanghai Grand Theatre and Shanghai Opera House,which will be presented in Shanghai later this October.