IF Mozart, the native child, could not be absent from the centenary of the Salzburg Festival, what can we say of its founders, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss, authors respectively of the text and the music of this Elektra which comes once more to fascinate the too rare festival-goers who were able to make the trip. And let's not forget the Vienna Philharmonic, the official orchestra of the event since 1922, decidedly unrivaled in the music of Strauss.
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How good it feels to hear an orchestra of a hundred musicians unfold like a jet plane! If the sound intoxication that the Wieners cause in this maelstrom is inimitable, it is because their surges of power are always singing, dancing, scintillating. It is also the invaluable contribution of chef Franz Welser-Möst, long despised as a cold and boring laborer, but who, at just 60 years old, is in the process of moving to another dimension. And to prove that his detention was maybe
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