Margherita Maria Sala is 27 years old and has been singing all her life. The fact that she won the Cesti Competition in 2020 is one of the highlights of her life. In an online interview with the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, she tells how she prepared for it, what happened to her and how her life changed afterwards.
Read moreIt is with great pleasure that the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music announces that a large part of the originally planned programme 2020 will take place.
Read moreThe commemorative year of Emperor Maximilian I, the 350th anniversary of Innsbruck court musician Pietro Antonio Cesti’s death and the tenth instalment of the Cesti Competition are the focal points of the 43rd Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. Shining lights from days past and present will radiate with a fresh sparkle in the summer of 2019. The rediscovery of the baroque opera “Merope” by Riccardo Broschi is eagerly anticipated. The Innsbruck audience can look forward to stars of the early music scene – from Bejun Mehta to Julia Lezhneva, from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin to the La Folia baroque orchestra.
Read moreOutlook to 2019: three extraordinary rarities will be shown at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2019
Read moreThe young mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo won the first prize and the audience award in the Cesti Singing Competition in Innsbruck. Second place went to Eléonore Pancrazi from France followed by Giulia Bolcato from Italy.
Read moreDue to reasons concerning the organization and event technology of the festival unfortunately some of the concerts can not take place this summer.
2020 dürfen sich Opernfans auf die „Leonora“ von Ferdinando Paër, die Intermedien zu „La pellegrina“ sowie Alessandro Melanis „L‘empio punito“ freuen.
Read more74 singers from 26 countries competed in the 9th International Cesti Competition. Here are the finalists.
Read moreYoung singers from all over the world are invited to apply for the 9th International Cesti Competition.
Read moreMit einem "musikalischen Intermezzo" im Musikpavillon im Hofgarten machen die Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik Vorfreude auf den Sommer!
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