Salzburg Opening Concert 2010

As the 2010 Salzburg Festival marked two major landmark anniversaries – the Festival’s 90th and the Großes Festspielhaus’s 50th – a glamorous and very special opening concert was mandatory: Daniel Barenboim, the Vienna Philharmonic and a quartet of world-class singers opened the proceedings in style. Barenboim, who in 2010 also celebrated his 60th anniversary onstage, excelled as soloist and conductor of Beethoven’s unsurpassably lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto. And subsequently, under his baton, Dorothea
Röschmann, Elina Garancˇa, Klaus Florian Vogt and René Pape delivered unforgettable performances in Bruckner’s poignant Te Deum.