We have had a fantastic week with eight wonderful performances, over 2,500 visitors and many unforgettable impressions. Many thanks to Matthias Bundschuh, Georg Baselitz, Dominique Horwitz, Isabelle Faust and her chamber ensemble, the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and the entire team of the Salzburg Festival – and to all visitors!
Matthias Bundschuh, Georg Baselitz
The Soldier
The Devil and the Soldier
The Soldier's March
80 minutes of pure theatrical bliss.Bernhard Neuhoff, BR-KLASSIK
There is nothing better than evenings when everything falls into place and is, at its core, simply right. Take perhaps the most important artist of our time, a seasoned director, excellent musicians, and a brilliant narrator, and you end up with something that deserves only one word: sensational. Jörn Florian Fuchs, Salzburger Nachrichten
[…] a complete “small is beautiful” success.Walter Weidringer, Die Presse
A stroke of genius. […] The bodies of the figures […] are cardboard tubes that bend at the joints as artfully as a gymnast during a free style.Jürgen Kesting, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
[…] a musical and theatrical masterpiece in seventy world-embracing minutes. […] On the cardboard violin, the soldier plays as devilishly as Isabelle Faust, and together they are as magnificent a duo as synchronized divers at the Olympics.Reinhard J. Brembeck, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Pure theatre, where Baselitz’s art truly comes into its own, as his visual language seems tailor-made for the archaic medium of marionette theatre. Regine Müller, Handelsblatt
One is enchanted. Bewitched. Despite the dramatic story, in which, sadly, the devil wins. Everything feels so light. Heidemarie Klabacher, Der Standard
Everything appears reduced, caricature-like, minimalist – including the black-and-white-drawn backdrop panels. But what the performers of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre make of it is simply magnificent in its wit, its precision-timed coordination with the music, and its stylised to deliberately alienated gestures.Robert Jungwirth, KlassikInfo.de
Princess, Soldier and Devil
Isabelle Faust
Dominique Horwitz
Triumphal March of the Devil
Photos: Bernhard Müller