“Jedermann” 2024 as a celebrated moral sermon
Published: Sunday, Jul 21st 2024, 00:20
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This year's premiere of "Jedermann" at the start of the Salzburg Festival was enthusiastically received by the audience. The Austrian Philipp Hochmair as Jedermann and the Swiss actress Deleila Piasko as his Buhlschaft were celebrated with "bravos".
The popular Hochmair, who was greeted with applause from the audience at the beginning, is playing the role for the second time. In 2018, he stood in for Tobias Moretti, who was ill at the time. Piasko impressed with her presence. Rarely has the central love duo of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's (1874-1929) play seemed so passionate. Christoph Luser in the double role of the Good Companion and the Devil and Dominik Dos-Reis as Death also received particularly loud applause.
Atmospheric staging
The Canadian Robert Carsen has staged the almost two-hour play about the death of a rich man who begins to reflect on the meaning of life shortly before his earthly farewell in a highly atmospheric and straightforward manner. He largely dispensed with a stage set and relied on the effect of the baroque Salzburg Cathedral as a backdrop. This made the play's appeal that it is not money and greed but faith and good deeds that give life meaning and provide comfort in death all the more powerful.
Opening with the great-granddaughter of Khrushchev
A total of 220,000 tickets for 172 performances over 44 days were issued for the world-famous theater and music festival in Salzburg this summer. The festival will be officially opened on July 26 with a ceremony at the Felsenreitschule. Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev, will give the opening speech. She is considered an expert on contemporary Russian history and politics as well as an astute analyst and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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