On my first day in Salzburg, I headed for an 11 a.m. concert featuring Riccardo Muti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony.

The Vienna Philharmonic is the resident orchestra here, and, every summer, a handful of its members present a chamber concert.

The Vienna Philharmonic has an annual summer residency at the Salzburg Festival and performs more than 50 concerts a year on its international tours.

On performances at the Salzburg Festival, including the conductor Teodor Currentzis with musicAeterna, the violinist Albena Danailova with other members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the ...

In the pit was the dependable Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Most, who elicited a vibrant and sensitive performance and succeeded in bringing out the subtleties of the score.

Christian Thielemann will conduct the festival orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic. Mozart's "Don Giovanni" follows just two days later.

Andris Nelsons conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival, August 2024© SF / Marco Borrelli A Mass with Mozart A Three-Ring Circus Salzburg Journal, Part I ...

"He was called the 'chief musical director of Europe', conducting the most distinguished orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic and he was also an essential figure for the Salzburg Festival.

The quintet of artists who founded the Salzburg Festival had a different conception of what such an event might feature and the purpose it could serve.

If the Vienna Philharmonic ever drops Mozart, it is Mozart who will be wronged. Daniel Behle as Tito Vespasiano and extras of the Salzburg Festival in La clemenza di Tito, 2024.

Conductor Yoon Han-kyeol greets the audience with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna on Aug. 10 during the 2024 Salzburg Festival at the Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria.